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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 326, 18 July 1889, Page 4

crop of rape, subsequently sown, will not tend to ameliorate. With characteristic pluck, however, Mr Seccomb has tried an interesting experiment in ensilage, by forming a small stack of grass cut, and built, during rainfall, and in the absence of proper pressing apparatus, compressing by a few cartloads of stone. The experiment has proved wholly successful, and the ensilage a valuable adjunct to other feed subsequent to the unfortunate accident to the hay. At present the spacious paddocks look yellow and dry, and the cattle are driven a long distance for water every day ; but with surely coming rain, Mr Seccomb looks forward to a period of renewed activity and work, on his fine estate ; the result literally of his own pluck, perseverance, and indomitable energy. Narrator wishes him, and all such sterling colonists, all and every success. From Oretifarm a well defined road leads through the homestead paddock, and some large, well-tended Native maize cultivations, to the village of Eaukokore, which with its environs exports about 300 bags wheat, 500 of maize, and a quantity of Native produce, annually. Here is a comfortable, well-found hostelry, possessing much superior stable and paddock accommodation to that usually found on the coast; over which presides, worthily, the locally well-known and appreciated, genial boniface Mr W. M. Swinton, late chief officer of the Gisborne. There is a store attached to the hotel, a good boat, excellent sea bathing and fishing in the adjacent bay, and plenty of pheasants at the back. There is also a really remarkable tree, a Pohutukawa,atßaukokore, the dimensions of which I must decline to even guess at, for fear of provoking the incredulity of your readers. Evidently of immense age, it is still full of vitality as it rests in a partially recumbent position near the beach, its ngarled, twisted, contorted, and partially hollow trunk, and widespreading umbrageous limbs, resembling more a small copse than the offshoots of an individual tree. The cavity beneath, and within its immense trunk, will easily contain from six to eight people; and another, and perhaps the most extraordinary feature is that a medium sized Karaka is growing out of one portion of the stem, and a small Ngaio sprouting out from another. The coast patriarch, as I said before, is full of vitality, and blossoms out annually as vigorously as any of bis youthful compatriot?, who dot singly, and in groups, at intervals on the coast line. The circumference of the outermost branches is 90 yards, their height varying from 15 to 80 feet from the ground. Here haring arrived at snug congenial quarters, enroute, the Narrater proposes to the reader, who l,as patiently accompanied him thus far, a foaming tankard of übiquitous Hancock’s XXX, which also ex i B f s op tap, among the Eaukokore amenities, after which, with renew e( j “ vim,” he also proposes, a resum- , t i on of trip From Auckland to Gi „born o Coastwise, in a shortly forthcoming paper. Eaukokore, Maj 9, lp, d9i