GLADSTONE NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7241, 23 August 1902, Page 2

GLADSTONE NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent). I noticed a local in your paper the other day referring to soma fine deer heads, which were procured in this vicinity last season by Messrs W. D. Watson and J. Cooper. Only the other day a well-known resident informed me that he had seen a herd of about sixty on the property of Mr W. C. Buchanan, aud I saw five splendid animals myself last week, whilst going out to Mr C. E. Dauiell's sawmill. This district is particularly suited to the deer, and at their present rate of increase will soon be as numerous as rabbits. In fact" bunny " is getting scarce here. We have had a visitor or two here lately, looking over the country insearcl*** of-suitable properties. There seojKto be a slight boom in good marketable properties. Dairying land, is, however, the chief attraction. We had a visit during the week from Mr D. Wilton, your well-known photographer, he being commissioned by a number of residents here to take pictures for them, and a number of excellent views were secured.

Auyone who would like to see the perils and hardships attached to. the life of sawmillers and the heavy work required to place timber in a yard for sale, should pay a visit to Mr C. E. Daniell's sawmill, situated on the Mungaraki range. Giant trees are brought to the mill from places that seem almost inaccessible to the unaccustomed observer, and the danger in handling them is only apparent when ono sees the. men at work. The tram-line is built right down the face of the hill, and a loaded truck will run for miles when once set in motion, so steep is tho incline. From the top of the range one has a magnificent , view of the surrounding country, Feath- £, erston, Greytown, Lake Wairarapa and Masterton, being plainly seen, through field glasses. The whole of the'Wairarapa Valley lies like a panorama, when on this eminence. One cannot hear tho chimes of tho Masterton Town Clock from so great a distance, but the headworks of tho Masterton Water Supply aro visible to the naked eye. Mr F. Daniell is in charge of the mill,jmd visitors speak highly of tho ment received at his hands. A real " bush feast" is dished up, and a ride on the switchback railway, up the inclines is a novelty. -***^^