TAWAI NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11783, 8 November 1912, Page 4

TAWAI NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) After a week's flue weather, „ heavy southerly rain set in early ort Monday morning ■ and fell' steadily till about 3 p.m., wllert it remained dull and cloudy till Wednesday morning. Againi a. thick,- cc>ld, drizzling ralir set an ;fc-on4' the east, all farm ;work beinK/jjpacfcica'll- - at a. diandistil'l. , Farmers are •anxious for a spell of fine weather to get en with the sowing- pf igrass seed (of which a large area is being sown this year), rape and! turnips. Tlio stock oil the whole are looking Remarkably well', considering the amount of changeable weather we'have experienced. XJinass is plentiful, but some-of'"the wheat orop& aro looking a.' bit yellow dVaecqunt'of two muchi' cold weather. Farmers who v.isit'ed the TimaTU' Show say 'tho crops are not looking so well north of Studholiuc Junction as they arc'in this district.

In response to the petition, to'the Postmaster-General Forwarded. by Mr Blackwoitfl "oil behalf of the ■ residents, ■lie has received! word .from tho Telegraph department that fl.rra ngemci.its aro now completed! whereby residents'cf Glonavy, Tawai, and, Redcliff can ring up n. doctor in Waimn-ie at any hour of tlie night!. This will prove a great convenience. _ . -