Notes from the West.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 495, 19 August 1890, Page 2

Notes from the West.

[FROM DUH OWN COBRESrONDENT.; Ma. RAFT AH A, AugUSt 11. Sinca the epoch when last cha community at large wai gladdened with the sight of “ Notos from the West” shining joyouily in your columns, ?he weather has, in tlu language of the poet, “ taken up.” The effict of tbi< change upon the highways in our district has been to alter the condition of the fluid mixture of mud and water which for the last few mouths has repose! thereon into a vicious mass which “ sticketh closer than a brother.” The excessive softness of the turf has shown trainers of equioe prodigies the superior advantages offered by th 3 Murewai beach. I saw Mr Clark’s team working there the other morning, Misfortune, i i clothing, di! about four miles slow. She ought to be in nick by October. By the bye, the aforesaid Misfortune was nearly proving true to her name to Mr Dixon’s coach recently Meeting her on a narrow part of the road adj ioent to the Karawa bridge, his leiders, probably disgusted at what they considered improper and unnatural habiliments on a member of their tribe, or perhuis out of politeness to her sex, mala strenuous efforts to vacate the roadway, and indulge in a peiegiiuation through the expanse of mud which borders it, The mperior conducting capabilities of Mr Dixon alono averted a mishap,