WAIRIO.
In this as in all other country districts the chief topic of conversation is the weather. This week we have had not so much rain as previously, but we have, what is almost as bad —very high winds. The outlook for the farmers is anything but promising just now, between the weather and the prices offered for last season’s grain, a number having held back expecting a big price in the spring. Mr Greer, famer, sustained rather a heavy loss last Saturday, when his stable and harness, etc., were destroyed by fire. He had, I hear, a small insurance on the building, but it will not nearly cover his loss. The Klondyke gold fever seems to have spread to this remote part of the world. The other week some of our young men bid their friends adieu and were off to the land of gold, but at the last moment some of them changed their minds and decided after all that home was the best place, even although they could not get gold by the spadeful.
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Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 33, 20 November 1897, Page 12
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