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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 19 June 1907, Page 2

Though the conditions are none too favourable farmers on the Papakaio plan, are busy ploughing for the sowing of spring wheat (says the "North OtagS Times •] Showers o£ rain a fortnight ago made the lea land work more easily ™ i, t.u 8 ?' inds have negatived much of the good which the rain might, have done. Rye, w.hich had bee.» sown in: spnne feed, also improved when the vain fell, but is now declin-

ing again, and the prospects of feed are not too cheerful. Dairy cattle are being feed with molasses and chaff, and are looking nvll, (hough milk is. still not so plentiful as farmers would like. When a couple of Pahnerston North detectives crept up to a Chinese hovel* on the outskirts of the town, where they expected to find opium-smokers, they discovered both front and back dcors locked. The ijrowl of a dog at the back door caused them to make » hasty though noiseless retreat. With, a little tact and a lump at meat, the* dog, which was chained to the door, was soon silenced, and a sorpriso virit was then sprung on the inmates, whoi scampered about in all directions invain to attempt to hide their pipes and! opium. A pr.od haul, however, was made by the detectives.