NGAPARA NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10702, 27 February 1911, Page 2

NGAPARA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) ;... The matter of most extreme urgency to us is still the want of rain. We have been favored, with a few small showers since the new year, hut the quantity has not been sufficient at any time to penetrate more than between-two. and three inches. The rain which began on Saturday evening promised ' better things, but unfortunately it seems to have passed off as the other showers have done. '.< ..

ft is a toss up now whether the turnips or the blight is going, .to win; in fact the only thing to kill the-blight-is a good sharp frost, . and-- of. course' frosts will check vegetation.'"- ,: , : ' At the present time pastures as bare as the road, the only few .avail-; able being stubble, and that won't last long. It is not a very bright look-' out for those who . have, much stock to winter, and'it is to be hoped that the winter will not ie .too severe. ; .

The threshing season will he" closed within a fortnight, and in 'many, cases the yields have • turned-' out somewhat-' better than 'was anticipated. -The. quality in most cases has been excellent. This fact has helped to take the rough edge of things;; Our township is assuming quite a busy appearance at the hands of a squad of the Telegraph Department's men. All the present telephone subscribers are ,having ' the metallic cir-. cuit put in, and four or five new subscribers are being connected up. The telephone is of immense service in a country district like ours, and has come to stay, and it is only a matter of time until nearly every farmer's house'is on i the line. .