NGAPARA. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

Otago Witness, Issue 1645, 2 June 1883, Page 13

NGAPARA. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

May 31st. ABRtODI/rURAIi.— Mr J. R. Elder, the oii^inal importer if tne celebrated defiance wheat, has c mplcied threshing. He had 48 acres of the above in crop It thiexhed 45 bushels to tl.e acre Ur Elder, who has had five yearb' experience in trow ing the abuvo whe .t, started with five ounces, i iiportcd from Amo ici ; and this year there i- 39i6 bushels grown from t.he original se d. tie iv of opinion that he sow. d rathor late last year, it being the latter en I of August before sowIng m fit i-bed. Mr Elder aid Mr JerS>ip are now quite convinced that for a spring wheat, there is nothing t" beat. it. It has proven itself ru-t-pro if, e-pe-c!»Uy tbis year, when all the crops right round it » ere attacked more r less. It maintained it's colour, and matured without the slightest indication of rust. Another valuable p Jnt in its f.tv- ur U that, it wil. withstand the high w nds that we have occasional^ at harvest time, and in threshing it is) as easily be*' en out a« velset or red str^w. It U the intension Of Hesßrs Eld< r and Jessop to fell all that was grown on their reipective farms for seed <.n!y Grain feTuRES.— A proposal has been mooted in the district by several of the farmers to co opera c and build a large grain i-t'ire at N^apara. The idea ia a go> d one, and if, carried out wilt be a great saving tv farmer* who are at pttsont tho mi eh cuw- tha 1 i-up-port'kn army ot commi bion u^ents, money-lenders, grain stores, &c , in Oamaru. eOCIATj M" (book's daiicing-c'aßS ba- ber n well attended bincb theoj ening last I uesday. The S2ud being the middle ol the quarter, a ball was given, andp^ed off with ecl&t.

Buii<BiNGS. - I u> dew tan ri the new and commodious etcjre being erected here will be opened next month, and ttat its iropnetx r intends celebrating the advent by r'^inff a,pr per bouse-warming. The Ngapara Ba> d, I b«li ye, has consented to tv n out on tie' cca ion and ditcour-e appropriate mv ic. It is to be hoped that the instruments will be more in tune than ih>y •weie on the la&t oc asion that they *ere before thd public should strongly advise the members tr> confine themselves to simper music than they rave ■fceen do. ng. . Some oi the marches played at tho last turn-out quite astonished the natives.