TARATA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 13, 18 January 1900, Page 2

TARATA.

[fk3m OUil OWN COBBBSPOXDESI.]

We'have had no ruin worth speaking ibout here since,abou" tho 21 so of latv i uonth, which fact certainly ought to ie put on record. Many of the small ireeks along the road but ween here and Itiglewood are nearly or totally dry, am.( litUlo travailing along the ioid nave iifficulty in getting clean water now. L'he Waititra river is lo'-ver than has .»een seen tor sosuo years, and only at tho 11 iw or rapids i.-> ttM'fl'jw of wat'OiHeavy loads of wool U-i!-. :> ■re s'uiil living here for the mult-,;.-, tad, judging by the quantity I tuvo -,e in on the road, fully 100 per cent, 'uore wool has left hero-this ee.sin ov.i •ast. Bush tires are row tho order of the lay, and the smoko obscurer tha hot ays of the sun on breezy Jnys. To-day (Monday) Mr, A. E. Atkiusou, of loglo•vood, has burnt his 100 acres of felling m tha Motukqwa Road, ami, judeiug by he oolour of the smoke, he wufct have uad a splendid burn. 'l'ue Government Cattlel aspic tor •vas out this way on Saturday last 1 ;uk•ng over some ; of . the .-cattle in thi* listrict. So far as I know, h i his only silled one cow that was badly diseased, balonging to the Maori Tinui. Mr. Turner, of Ing!ewood,.on attending divine tervico hero on Su a day week, ■vus thrown out of his express qu the township, but, boyond a fuw bruisoa and i severe shaking, ho was not seriously injured. He conducted divino aervioi all tho same. Mr. Cameron, contractor for tho metalling of the Junction E sad het-.voan hero and Purangi, is pushing on well' with tha work this' dry weather. Mr. W. Grayling and Mr. Uida-tt aro also pushing on with their big j jb of vvi lining about five miles of thd Motukawa Eoad. Tho weather for haymaking and grass seeding has been all. that eould be desired, and the farmers and btishmen, for once in a wjy, h.we nothicg to giuqftble about, albeit sonje of-thc-m are beginning to think a day's, rain wuuld do good,