OUR NORTHERN" LETTER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2251, 22 April 1897, Page 20

OUR NORTHERN" LETTER.

(Feoji Our Own Correspondent. ) Hawera, April 10.

ELTHAM.

The pretty township of Blthatn, situated on tfce Wanganui to New Plymouth railway, is one of tho go-ahead centres of the west coast. At the time of writing all is bustle, activity, and progress in the streets, for everywhere men are making and forming the footpaths and cutting down elevated places and raising the depressions of the lins of thoroughfare. New buildings are springing up in all directions — not unpretentious either — and trade appears floun»hing. All around the rich lands are thickly populated -with well-to-do dairy farmers, who from carving homes out of tha forest have long succeeded in bringing dairying to successful issues, their operations keeping two of the largest factories ot the North Island in full work. It is the general opinion that Eltham is to be one of the towns of the north, and at no distant date either.

SUMMERSET HOME.

Nicely situated about five miles north-wpst of Okaiaua, on the Skeet road, Summerset Home, patrimony of Mr H. E. Candy (late of Springton, Chriitchutch), grows 100 acres in rich paeture, feeding well some 50 shorthorn milkers, which are in full profit for nine months of the year, they giving their owner during that time at the rate of 150 gal of milk, which is sold to the Loan and Mercantile Dairy Factory Company, Limited, abranch of which is hard by ; and the same beiog three-fifths tesb earns 2Jd per gallon, with a possible bonus steadily in view at each jewe's end. The Berkshire pigs, the mangels, the maize, the potatoes, the oats, and the orchard of Summerset Homo are all worthy of note.

MAYBANK.

Maybank, of 57 acre?, 24 cows yielding 40gal of milk per diem, on the Manaia rottd, worked and run by Mr James Ed.yards, is a happy home, a pretty farm, and well worth seeing.

New Guinea is the home of the most wonder* ful feathered creature known to the students of ornithology — the awful rpir n'doob or •' bird of death." A wound from the beak of this creature causes excruciating pains in every parfc of the body, loss of sight, speech, and hearing, convulsions, lockjaw, and certain death.

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