WAIHOLA GORGE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 11 March 1882, Page 13

WAIHOLA GORGE.

1 (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) March 6th.

There is little of interest to chronicle from this die* trict. At last respectable harvest-weather has arrived, and everywhere, ,the reader is at work. The fields are ripening rapidly now, though at first the grain changed from green 'to yellow Very slowly. A peculiarity in the 1 fields, which seems to be pretty general this season, is that some patches are ripe while others are green. The crops are pretty, iair after all, and should we get sufficient dry weather to secure everything, we may consider ourselves fortunate. With a rising market and a fair yield, farmers' prospects are not quite ..so gloomy, as they were a year ago. As the country' gets opened up larger areas will he laid down for pasture, and there will be leia danger of a glutted market. But before new country can be prepared for grazing it must be cultivated, and as preliminary cultivation has been pretty generalall over Otago, .there has-been more than enough of grain produced. There is an excellent crop of turnip* all over the Plain, but as spring' frost nipped th« potatoes, that crop is not quite so good as could be desired

The threshing-mill has beon at work close up to the starting of the reaper, threshing out the old crop to make way for the new. It is not a sign of good markets when the old crop is kept in the flUck'Bo'lonjr. If loss from vermin and other causes were taken into account, economy might find itself* on.the wrong ,sld« of the ledger by, keeping the grain stacked for a, whole year. ,< , «.t i > > ■ \ > ,i<>. n ,\ „, ,,, w , Tenders are called ,for metalling; th,e r6ad Worn tht m»l'n road i© Mr y?m, Striih's, » woVk really I T4<iuir«d, and one whiph' should hive been dotfe'lotilf ago, for th?ro^iinexttolmp«*wble i inwin&r. ■*■ ■ ' ■