GREYTOWN.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1751, 27 September 1905, Page 29

GREYTOWN.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Captain Jackson Barry visited Greytown on Tuesday last, but owing l to the wet weather was unable to pay intended visits to friends, and returned to Wellington by Wednesday afternoon train. The rough weather experienced here on Tuesday and- Wednesday has proved disastrous to the lambs in this district. One farmer informed me that he lost fifty lambs on Wednesday night. It has also made havoc amongst the early fruit blossom. I hear that the contractor for additions* to the Post Office Jias received instruction to suspend operation®, this being the outcome of a recent Ministerial visit. The Greytown Hockey Club (ladies) met a team from the St. Matthew’s Church Club, Masterton, on Thursday, in the Recreation Ground, and defeated them by three goals to nil. This is the fifth match the Greytown Club have played this season, and they have not meet with defeat —not a bad record for their first season. (From our Exchanges.) It is not improbable that there will be a small area in potatoes this season in the Oamaru district. Croppers are talcing advantage-of the high price, and are selling out of seed and every other form of potato. TJnder these circumstance® much of the. land that -was intended for potatoes will be put in other kinds of crop. Levin and Co., Wellington, have purchased Mr Jupp’s fleet at Foxton. The boats are used for the conveyance of goods and passengers on the Manawatu river. It is stated that an up-to-date passenger steamer is to be placed on the river by Levin and' Co. A farmer told the “Woodville Examiner” lately that he is having an exceptional experience this year with the lambing. It is quite a oommon thing amongst his stock to see twin® and triplets, but in very large number of cases the ewes have produced a quartette or lambs- (he desoribes them as litters). The Ngaire Co-operative Dairy Company declined an offer of s£d per lb for •their season’s output of cheese. The offer equalled a pay-out of lid for butterfat. The Company preferred to consign on an advance of 4£d per lb, anticipating that the cheese will realise fully s*d per lb. A meeting of the provisional directors of the Eketahuna Brick and Tile Jompany was held on Tuesday. The balance of share® were allotted. Mr Jones, ol Masterton. wa® appointed manager to the Company. It was decided to call for tenders for the erection of machinery and drying sheds. It was resolved to commence business immediately upon tbe arrival of the plant, which is expected by the end of the month. The “Hasting© Standard” ha© been informed that ther© are only a few men actually engaged, at the Tomoana Freezing Works at the present time, owing to the slackness in the freezing line, which is generally the case at this time of the year.. The remainder are being employed on the' station® of the firm, until there is. sufficient need for them at the work®. The fat lamb® will shortly be coming in and no doubt the business will be in full swing iu. a few weeks’ time. At the present time the commercial outlook is brighter than -I have ever

known it before, in a long and varied experience; Mutton and lamb are going to command handsome prices this son; the price of butter is going to be better than ever before, and to the best of my belief there is also going to be a first-class price for grain in the coming season. It is going to - be one of the most prosperous years South Canterbury has ever experienced.” Sd said a well-known commercial man in the course of a conversation, which a representative of the Timaru “Post” chanced to hear. The difference in the price paid by the actual consumer- of New Zealand butter in England and the price' received by the producer in the colony is often very considerable, and, in addition to the charges for freezing, transit, etc., it provide© a comfortable living for quite- a number of middlemen, who, in return, render more or less service in the butter disposal. One of the problems which has always faced the producer and still faces him, is the elimination of some of these middlemen, and the consequent saving of their share of the profits, writes- the New Plymouth “Herald.” The genealogy of Pohipi te Hau, of Maori aristocratic birth, descended, from those who made the conquest against New Zealand, when proved in the Kaiapoi Court on Thursday, covered a sheet of paper seven feet m length. This was unrolled with due solemnity and discussed with great gravity. His- line was traced until the date of 1840. when New Zealand was ceded by tbe Maori® to Great Britain. Pohipi himself, when he died some years ago, had all but attained ai® century.