OAKURA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10482, 6 December 1895, Page 3

OAKURA.

[fhom our own correspondent.] Tiiebe is not much excitement here. The continual rain does not lot crops come on as they should do, only tho weeds. Carrots and othsr things want attending | to r but the wet won't aJlow it. Some talk of cutting grass for hay, but they dare not begin. There is pleDty of grasa, but the nutriment is not in it, and the percentage of fat in the milk is low, but we must hope for better.

There inn * yenn* lady of Minor, .WU»Mi.i!edio.«h.. ro,l-."i • li-er. | jyt W-b end «< tJ.= .■.!», tli» b>'l ""-- 1n»1.1... j Anil the »tni]o mi tlio t.u o of tho tl.-er. Thin old uursrry rhyme illiioiratoi ~lv creilulity of the female rl)-ir<ct<;r, m.ii tin j innHnetK for beautiful m.ilu mihimla : f-ir. without doubt, in African ti>rer i* imlpfil i hejtatifut ■ uniinul, but innn is an anim.il notwithstanding his humanity, mul we an. ■nrrrmnded on all sides by iiiiriiberU-M» examplei of his inuatd snvngery. The liopu!cj« minery of women, tied by the man i<iuc- bond' to debated, drunkeu, ignorant hrntcs. nrln> We dubbed by nature's laws na Innls erf tli'creation, is, perh.t))';, one of tlie raiar, lament ftblo tiling to lie witnessed in modern times ; for the Victorian era pxhibits, perhnjis. the highest typu of refined civiliwitinn known in history, witli its awful opposite upliinlicllv depicted by Charles Dickens, in hi 3 characters of 13111 Sikes and Fawn. 'We' hoar of philmthropy in its thouaauil forma— the noble efforts to rescue lada from the anrronndiuKi ot vice and crime, but it aeemi a* hopeless a tisk to stop juvenile depravity a* the onijiueorim,' ituposmbiliiy to daiq Ni.tgara. Why, it may be asked, all thin diiquiaition ? It i to impress by all the force of pen, the desirability to cultivate habits of philosophy and reflectiveness, and hern we are met with the boneßncnco of Nature, which givea to the Old Dominion Virginia, the weed brought to Et)Kl»j>d by Sir Walter Raleigh, the inhaling of which in the form of Indian Chief Cigarettes, induces that calmnes« of thought and happy fir.me of mind under which the present condition of socnllcd civilisation may be pondered over with