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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 35, 26 December 1905, Page 2

We received just before going to press, a long letter signed " Your own," on the nolicense question, which will appear m oar next issue. . A correspondent from California, to a friend m Invercargill, says : — " We have had 184 days here without any rain. , How would that suit you m Southland.' . A nnmber of fruit trees, chiefly gooseberries, are dying m the Riverton district, a similar disease is reported to be common this season m the Milton district. I It is reported that T. E. Taylor, (of voucher fame) and lately defeated by one thousand votes for one of the Christohuroh seats, will shortly be given an opportunity of contesting a North Island electorate. It is expected that about one hundred clergymen and laymen of the Primitive Methodist Church, will arrive m Inveroargill on the 11th January, to take part m that church's annual conference, which is to be held m Invercargill this year, Messrs Dimmook and Holt left Otautau last Monday week to do some improveements m Orepuki, laying curbstones for footpaths, etc, but the weather was so wretchedly bad, that after waiting there a week, they returned home, after getting m one day's work. There is on view m. Mr Gonley's shop window m Otautau a splendid specimen of a greenstone axe recently turned up by a plough at Orawia The implement is iv a perfect state, and aplendid workmanship. The famous Birohwood estate has once again ohanged hands. Mr Roderick MoKenzie having sold'to Mr W. .A. Rodger, of Waimea, The new owner takes possession on the Ist January, and buys the present clip and everything pertaining to the estate, letting Mr and Mrs McKenzie quietly change their place of abode without clearing sales or any other upset of the ordinary rQutine of station life. We believe it is Mr and Mrs MeEenzie's intention, at an early date, to make a trip to the old country. Many are friends who will wish them a pleasant trip, and safe return home: