The country around Te Awamutu and Rangiaohia is looking exceedingly well, and crops of all kinds are doing splendidly. At Rangiaohia, however, there are two or three crops of potatoes which are very poor, there being an alarming number of misses. The cause may, probably, be set down to bad seed. The cattle all over the district appear to be in fine condition.
Mr Carter's time-table for his line of passenger coaches between Hamil ton anclTe Arohawill be found in our ad vertising columns. If it is desirable to alter the days ot running, and should represen tations in this respect be made, no doubt the proprietor will accede to any sugges tions, having the interest of the public at heart.
No Highway Board in the Wai kato pays greater attention to the conve nience and comfort of the ratepayers and travellers generally than that of Puke kura. The Board has erected finger-posts where required, and has just now com pleted the erection of the third roadside water-trough. There is one at Walker's gully, one near she new hotel in Cam bridge West, and the third has been placed in the cutting at the western approach to the bridge over the Waikato at Cambridge. What a pity it is that other public bodies do nob follow the good example thus set them.
We had the pleasure yesterday of inspecting a very fine crop of rye at Bruntwood, Mr John A. Douglas's estate, near Cambridge, The crop is an exceed ingly strong one, the average height being sft. 9in. The ears are very full and pro mise a very large yield. We understand that Mr Dotiglas has disposed of the whole of the straw yield at £o a ton to a Cambridge satMler.
