The Harvest.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 60, 3 February 1883, Page 2

The Harvest.

. : (Post.) 2usong from the present appearance New' Zealand is about to reap the most bountiful harvest with which even this favoured colony has yet been bleat. From all parts of these islands come extraordinarily favourable accounts of : the-graineropß-«ow-being"gathered in?-"" Almost fabulous stories, .come of particular local- yields iii some of the Seubhern distpicta i -—4)nt^'- competent judges who havf; Jatejy visited those districts assure us tliat there is do exaggeration," and that the are quite as gopd-asTepresentedii ithfs isone of the be^t, strokes of fortune that conld x have befallen this cpnntry* Few people fully realize the vast magnitude to which odr ",'grkin export has already attained j'6'r l h6w large" an ad« vance has, b^een m^de ithis t yew m 'the area under crdpi ' jind now " 'from this extended area "of productioii,.we are abbut to receive^" yield of ctneqn|?le4 plentifulness. 1 ' It ; ' ( 'boxes', too) 1 ' mdst' opportunely at i '. when", ihe harvest both fn .'England' and iri'AusH. tralia Had been a deplbrable failurel J Lamentable tales were' toW 6{ the last: ) British harvest : ah ! dl the^ra rages 1 ," ib sustained from storm and' Mood. In the great wheat-growing 1 colony,' South Australia, the latest telegram records! so Reriou^a^eficiMyy'that; vesseis wnicli' have bebD. waiting there expectation of .finding ready, and abunlant freight discover there is 1 none f bfferi^^-'eveh at unprecedented low rates,. , ..N.ew Zealand thus' ha'B ( 'a magnificent prospect ' " if only the weather continue- propitious until the corn is 'finally garneied. The benefit of such a -sphendid just at thß present time is! quite incalculable. To the struggling deferred^paymentsettlera, it Wjill ba as: a boon; direct from h,eaven. It will make to many, all the difference bet-weeh ' assured : prosperity and , miserable poverty. "If will enable them easily to meet their payments, and to extend their -improvements, ? and to lay : spj^ins by., ; More than ail} .it, will M p;it hflart m them," . and , give" tfiai sustabtial. encouragement which Js the be^i; incentive.. . and , ,aid to progrpsa, ;JFrbm every point of view, the .present harvest, promise is a public,, and private ' bjepaiaaf for which we cannoc. be too thankful. . _ . "_. „ vt> . ...