TAPANUI.
April 10.— Since Thursday last the weather has been simply splendid, and has quite changed our prospects. The farmers, who have been hitherto bewailing their hard lot, are now as busy as posnible getting their grain into stack, and not a moment of the fine weather is being lost. Sunday last being a splendid day, operations were not stopped, and in places the teams were engaged as usual. The settlen are not to be blamed, as the weather previously experienced was simply disheartening to those who had large fields in the stook. Some loss will result as grain standing out in the field during all the wet weather could not possibly escape being somewhat damaged. Threshing will be very late this year. As harvest labour is plentiful, a week or two of the present weather wduld see moat of the grain safely stacked. < • J
JJkfkrbed-payment Land,— a large number of the sections of bush land adjoining .Tapanui recently opened for application have been taken up, and the bush land lying idle will soon be fenced in and made use of.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1899, 13 April 1888, Page 17
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181TAPANUI. Otago Witness, Issue 1899, 13 April 1888, Page 17
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