THE HARVESTIAN THE SOUTH

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13114, 1 March 1906, Page 5

THE HARVESTIAN THE SOUTH

w - HEAVY FAIJOF SNOW. [Br TELEGRAPH OwQpORRESPOIiTUIiKT.] CiißiSTC*itii, Wednesday. Good progress'has beefjnade with the harvesting in North CantJjuiy during the last 10 days, particularly #" in & t ' ie ' ast three i 5 days of last week, v|rn a drying norwester and bright bunJW had a beneficial effect on the grain. 1 The nor'-wester checlif the potato blight, f which was previously ftking headway in, the crops in the Kaiuplfand Kangiora districts. if Ilain fell on iSuturc* night, but the .<*-■ weather has sincc beenitlo- - Hessian fly is refflcd to have done j 'ff tr tome damage among tliffheat crops in the ! fil Pleasant Point, a-rid°Fai;S districts. Little : . 3i- nothing was heard of ie fi . v in tlie L ' vo j previous seasons, and it Id been forgotten, ; k": : but this year a good rlJlof the wheat has j |£/ fallen over through its Racks in the two ; * localities. ~ || ' A tropica.! downpour ITed at Spring- j MQ. burn, about 20 miles hcß ,! " Ashburton. on i *3 ' Kurday morning, follow a heavy fall of I |gf • snow. Quito oin fell, ||s' !I1 g much dam- : B age. tu standing crops, #h in some cases j £>.' were laid level with the »und. 'he hills : ~ were covered with snow lithe foot. There was a heavy fall of sno4| t Mount. Sorneis ||f5 early on Sunday morninJ Old residents of §" *t''i the district state that thJf allrlljt remember <*' snow falling there in Fell LI 7 before. The , ' ' effect on the grain crops | s rather serious, Ijtlf as most of them were fljfined out. llSl ■ I