FAIRLIE NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14321, 11 October 1910, Page 3

FAIRLIE NOTES.

From inn- own Correspondent

Nor'-west winds have dried up tlio country very much, and rain i'., badly needed. A gale blew on almost ctitv day last week. Nor'-west showers fell occasionally, but they did little good, frosts, too. hare been prevalent, and they have been severe for tlie time of the year. On Friday morning JO decrees were registered. What with winds and frosts grass and crop? have mads practically no headway. Teams have, however. been hard at work iiii-i,-:hing tlie sowing of i-roiis. Tlie lambing is now well on. and there has been scarcely any wet weather since it oonijr.eii'.'fd- The winds have not been a.',] thai could, lir. d>-.»!ied for the lambing, but uo wo t weather has been experienced. . v,-jtji the exception of a snow storm a fortnight ago, so that vcrv few losses have been secured through bad wcuther. The grass grub lias done some dama s v to growing i crops. Some linre patelics, up to a cmartar of an siero in extent. e.fe *x> Tie seen in some places.

Fnirlio is hnviiss quite a visitation i : in xho filiape of cnwirrain merits pf vari- lkinds. Onriiv.- tho i~v-i ~t low \vt?ek~ " s a number of travelling companies have ) arrived, and three times a wook skat- ? \n<s rink owns in the Puhkc Hall. i On Tuesday nij_:l-t a ruchre party t.-i hj? held in xho school room, and on Wod- c nomas' ovoii'nfj; Mr Hro\m will le-oture i io fanner* oc inunuri'i".!. it hoped c that ther» v. iii lv* a hrue attendance x +.r> inoot ZNTi' Bivvn. h*s in»t he- i loiv Itv-inrod at Fairl'ie, u x a h 1? ren^t-" 1 i r:-i ;» i'or.d l«ct w-»r hf"= already ] *;>nth Canrr-rhnrv. The raw of hriok phons on tho 1 | r'-r.in str~r' ! ' ar-> i»m' )ki-\ar]y all evil- I vwed. nH f.ourish'ns hoiuji * : in tin?". On? or two others nit , k <o Ij u i?ror-tp'l in the ttnvn-hin shorilv, I that Pairlio is still £o : ncc ahead. 1 [ (Vt-x'pforv X \Tt> all hnsv. and have work ; j in Jjand for n snf.a finie "H romo.