COUNTRY NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2095, 22 January 1908, Page 2

COUNTRY NEWS.

PORT AWANUI. CProm our own Correspondent.) Trade should be brisk, judging from the number of commercial travellers who perambulate this coast. Last week they literally swarmed and this week there have been three or four, without counting dentists, who scorn to be having a busy time here.

Tho Haupiri has gone past leaving 15 would-be passengers lamenting", to say nothing of the inconvenience caused to storekeepers and' shippers. Really it is time wo had -another boat on this coast, one going north and the ot-hor south, the same as we had some 12 years ago when trade must have been very small, compared with wh-a-t it is to-day. There have been some splendid burns, and grass seed sowing is in full swing, lots of fencing contracts are to be let, but workers aro very scarce.

Rain is wanted very much, but judging by the look of the clouds we shall soon have a downpour and trust- it may last for two days at least to fill up tlie tanks and watercourses. Stock is beginning to suffer from the dry weather. T AREATA.

There was a heavy downpour of rain last Friday and (Saturday, which will bo very beneficial to the grass seed on the new burns. A thousand fat wethers left for Gisborne from .Mr Tullock’s station on Sunday.

The T-arewa district has stood the long spell of dry weather remarkably well. It- is the only country that is not dried- up from Gisborne to AVairoa.

There is talk of freezing works being started at Waikokopu before very long.