Settlers in this and Oamaru district of a doaen years' standing testify to this as being the most promising spring they have witnessed. •• Nature truly smiles." The genial Bhowers and succeeding sunshine have certainly carpeted the earth with a rich green, with every pros pect of its ripening into a golden yellow. It is often said " some people are never satisfied," but I certainly have not heard a farmer say he was not at his prospects this season. Most rapid progress is being made with the Windsor-Livingstone railway. Some miles are now in hand. I fear it will not improve the prospects of the Ngapara township, as it ap proaches a junction which will intercept the Maerewhenua traffic from this place. Pas sengera and grain will, in all probability, join the train there, thus passing Ngapara, when the Windsor station will be the junction where trains will meet.
