COUNTRY NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17955, 23 November 1918, Page 8

COUNTRY NEWS.

[From Our Corresfo?tdests.] ASHBURTON. The rainfall registered at Aehburtcn yesterdo.y morning was G.l7in, ma kin;? a. total of 1.95 in for the week. Tho rain has already made a marked difference in the appearance of all vegetation, and the pros-poets of a bountiful cereal harvest aro just now of the brightest. The wheat and oat cropj are lookin" I "'remarkably healthy, and if neither blight r.or rust set-i in. and further timely raina occur, there should bo many particularly good yiclda in various parts of the district. AKAKOA. Thu heavy i-aina of tho last few days will do an immense amount of good to tho paddocks and gardens, and practically save the cocksfoot croo, which, owing to tho Ion? spell of dry weather, and r.lso ths latone3s of closing; tip, Wl3 making i» very poor show. Shearing' is now general on tho Peninsula, but baa ben delayed by tho r-aiu.