Ngapara Notes

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 8562, 17 August 1904, Page 4

Ngapara Notes

(From Our Own Correspondent.) We are beginning to congratulate ourselves that tho spring is with us again. ~Sol that we have any reason to complain of tho weather during the past winter, but having the previous one in mind, we have a nasty, uncomfortable feeling that there may be something unpleasant in store- for us in the way of wind and frost. However, that fear is dispelled now. All the indications point to an early spring. Sunny faces are showing a slight tinge of green, and there is that feeling in the air which all animate things feel and respond to. To descend to things more material, I think the farmers who have oats and wheat to sell are in a happy frame of mind and are congratulating themselves on their position just now. I believe there arc a few who are 6till in; that fortunate position. I suppose the result of tho Increased prices will be a larger acreage being put in. After a long period of waiting the streets and roads in the neighborhood of Ngapara have received the attention of the Council, and we are even going to have the luxury of gravelled footpaths, so we are progressing There is just one other thing we want, and then we may be comparatively happy, and that is a daily train.' If the Hon. J. G. Ward could be induced to come and live here for a week I really think we might obtain it;