BREVITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11146, 9 December 1907, Page 5

BREVITIES.

Trout-fishing from the back of a horse is the latest kind of sport m Woodville. • The dr^ weather m Wairarapa causfed a fall m the price of stock. '/', Heavy crops of hay are being cut m the Carterton district. The new ! paper at Tiiihape is a result of the other papers, the* New® and Post; combiniriig forces and giving place to tlie present 'journal. ./.'■'..'*' Mr Metcalfe, the Auckland engineer, has been engaged "by; the Hastings Bor- r ough Council .to go. into the sewerage scheme. ■ .'" ./ . v : Tliere were sixty cases i set down for hearing at the Hastings Court on Friday — a record— but most of them were set-, tied,'' „'.■.'".:■.■.■..; '.'-'' ■-'..- '" /;' .■'■' B. C. Freyberg, a young "Wellington swimmer,; proposes during J this season, to swim' s across' the harbor from Thorndojij t 0 Day's Bay, a 'distance of about eightj miles.- ■'■/- ;' ■:■ ■y ■ '•'■.. ■/ A great deal. of Cape weed is noticeabld among, the hay crbp6 m and around Carterton and down: the Wairarapa Valley. Farming land m Otaki is , still fetching record prices, arid £50 per acre has been paid for a small farm between. Otaki and Manakau. ''The best shearing season for 30 years," is the opinion of a Masterton station .manager oh tlie present season.