Notes from the West.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 423, 1 March 1890, Page 2

Notes from the West.

(FBOM DUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Mueewai, February 26. Now that we hare got a Post office, a telephone, and coach communication with your august cit-y—products of civilization which have considerably decreased our distance from tha “ busy hum ” —dt ia high time to draw attention to this flourishing settlement, destined in the sweet by and bye to become the port of Poverty Bay, for it is palpable to any unprejudiced observer that this is the place, par excellence, where the breakwater should have been located, and when your little creek is choked up with sand, and your little bit of masonry has shared the fate of that scriptural domicile built on similar foundations, then we shall see ships of all nations, and any tonnage, riling proudly, and safely, alongside the pier, built on the solid rock, sheltered by that grand historical bluff. Young,Nick’s Head. We. the inhabitants of this district, are not a feverishly vapid lot, our rule of living inclining towards the “ Festiaa leate,** very much “lente,” especially at this season, Shearing, which commenced in October, st Walrek *ia Station, has just been concluded. Do not imaeine, however, that it has proceeded without interruption. A oonj siderable interval elapsed between the fleecing of the adalt fleck, and the defilation of its younger members, and the latter performance was retarded by the almost feminine variability of the weather. The chief products of our locality,- besides wool, are rye grass seed, and maise -both crops have flourished. On Pakowhai, somathing like 2000 bushels—a splendid sample —were bagged. Tbe season has been a good one for groev, but a gentleman who has recently taken up some Government land near Paraetu, on the Mahia road, seems to think the rain ia not an unmixed blessing. I heard him solemnly asseverate that it always rained on his section, especially on some recently felled bush that he is aJkloua to burn, and onnU. I comforted him bjud suggesting faith, patience, and a perusal the story of Elijah and the prophets ofw Baal ______