GREYTOWN.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6691, 27 September 1882, Page 2

GREYTOWN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) September 26.

Last Saturday, E. H. Wood an<J Co. sold, by public auction, thirty-seven acres of land, situate at Morrison’s Bush, near Grey town, for £6 per acre. It may, perhaps, interest the general reader to learn that, some fifteen years ago, land in the district above indioited “went a-begging" at 10s per acre. Previous to that period, thousands of acres adjacent were sold by the Provincial Government for 5s and 10* per acre, any of which could not now be bought for the some figure in pounds sterling. It is but a little over a quarter of a century ago that the Small Farm Associatiau of this district acquired the places now known a* Sreytown and Masterton, with their surrounding country, at a cost of £1 per town acre and 10s suburban ditto. Hence the prosperity of many old settlers and the apparent phlegmatic Dutchman style of others, possessing ample means for the maintenance of present material wants, literally “ settled down under their own vine and fig tree.” Intending settlers in the various outlying district* of the colony under the new land purchasing Act should note the above and go and do likewise. Last Saturday night the Grey town Horticultural Society held a meeting, according to announcement. After the discussion of sundry business matters of no outside importance. It was resolved to bold the local Spring Show at the Town Hall on Thursday, 7th December _ext. Concerning the coming exhibition at the Pastoral Show, to he held at the Society’s ground at Carterton, the proposal to close it at 5 p.m. was thought likely to affect the moneytaking, and that it would be better to keep the exhibition open until 9 p.m. It waa therefore resolved that the Secretary write to the Secretary of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society, advising him of the mutual advantages accruing to both societies by an extension of time, as indicated. After arranging about the printing and issuing of catalogue*, it was decided that the following gentlemen should be requested to act as Judges at the coming show :—Messrs Jackson, Vile, Everett, Worth, Spearink, Skeet, and Koesitor. Stagers: Messrs Porritt, Barnard, W. G, Beard, and St. George. For nearly a week past the district has been visited with powerful winds from the west, sometimes veering southerly, and at others from a contrary direction. Last night this increased to almost a hurricane velocity, accompanied with a good downpour of rain, causing the wooden tenements of our borough to very disagreeably vibrate on their foundations, and causing not a few nervous inmates to quake with fear. The gale culminated this morning in a thunderstorm, and at the present time (2 p.m.) the wind, although “luffing up,” is still strong from the nori-west, with occasional smart showers ; but the ranges to the west being obscured by mist indicates a very heavy rainfall throughout the mountains, and impending overflowing in the watercourses.