Havelock.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5321, 11 September 1888, Page 3

Havelock.

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Since my last I have been on the " tramp pretty considerably, having travelled both north and south of Napier. With the advent of v good season signs of improvement and advancement are visible everywhere. Never since 1 have known this district have I seen stock of every description looking so well. Sheep are carrying heavy aud healthy fleeces, while !)0. "100~ and even up to IUO per cent of lambs is the result of a moist mild season. Sheep-farmers smile at the splendid prospect before them. Turnip and other artificial feed is becoming quite a common practice among shcepfitnie.is. This is no doubt an excellent practice, as it serves two purposes—feeding the wcaners and strengthening them against the attacks of the lungworm, ".nd renewing the pastures. I notice that the dreaded Tauhinu of the northern districts is gradually gaining ground on some of the southern runs, Sheep-farmers would do well to keep an eye to its progress ; it is a. very undesirable plant. Some of the /uns around Mohaka arc almost completely overrun with it, and its destruction is causing no end of trouble and expense. The fruit trees around here are looking remarkably well. Tho peaches especially, which have for a number of years been failing, seem to havo quite recovered their oldtime proiificuess; they are, iv fact, a perfect picture for bloom. Those who havo been patient in their wailing, and have not ruthlessly hewn down their peach and apricot trees because they fuiled to bear for a few years. i:.>n- stand fo reap their reward. Like the g.-k'uer of old, they have tried yet another year, and their patience, bar frosts, will bo rewarded with an abundance of fruit.

The larrikin element seems to have seized some of our small boys and hobbidchoys. The exuberance of their animal spirits seem to have got the better of their judgment, and leads them into mischief. They seemed to have paid most attention to carriages, carts, ami small edifices. A number of the hitter seem to have been put off their centre of gravity, making one think that they had, with the perpetrators of wise acts, been in too close proximity with Mr Glass's bar. From Waimarmna I learn that a short time ago an unfortunate Maori woman, being ill, the husband was induced to placo her in tho hands of the luuilutu—" medicine " man. Result—she died. About a week later the husband, being driven mad either from religious mania or from grief. ended his days. I think these sort of things call for the atteutiou of tho authorities." In tho first instance, had a proper practitioner been called in, the woman's life might have been saved; aud it is reasonable to imppo.se, had sbe lived, the man would not have committed tho rash act ho did.