METHVEN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6874, 12 March 1883, Page 5

METHVEN.

[PBOM OtJB OWN OOBBEBPOMDBNT.I March 10, This last week, on the whole, we have had a far better average of fine weather. In the early part, we had a good deal of the old drizzly fog, but the last three days has made ample amends. Thursday and Friday were most enjoyable days ; to-day (Saturday) it broke rather gloomy looking, and threatened rain for an hour or two, but we hope we may be able to obroniolo at least another fine day. Carrying, stacking, and threshing operations have been in full swing, and grain is beginning to poor in rapidly. I fear that there will be considerable loss through sprouted grain in this district, as a whole, but there are some good yields and fine samples are being turned out. Another large item will tend, I fear, to increase the lessee of the farmer, and that is the fact of his having to feed his harvest hands for so many extra weeks during (be post bad weather. The blow to his prospects this season ha* come from a most unexpected quarter, for in the usual course of events all that a farmer has to dread is the nor'-wester, bat to receive such a facer as ho has from continued wet weather is quite a new phase in his experience. We have not as yet been interviewed by the hurricane predicted by Mr Stone Wiggins, of Ottawa; expectation has been on tiptoe for the last twelve hoars in anticipation of the event, and last night’s sunset tended to corroborate the expectation. Nothing has, however, oa yet coma of it, but there ia every indication of a change.