STIRLING.

Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1078, 14 January 1879, Page 5

STIRLING.

(i ; y our own correspondem.) '1 he c is little of importance t'i send f-mn cur quarter. Om; favorable aspect is thai th-* li^e:- in lower at this die thai it has b en since the fl ><-d. the apprehensions of a s-emnd ilr.iid as wa" dreaded Seems to b ■•■ nubsidmg, an-1 for ihu iast iVy days tlie receding ot the water has taken away io a certain exent. the forlorn look' the la'and presumed li is now stated un good authority that, tho stopping of the gaps wont be of such a fwrmidab c pat ire ria vvm.3 at tirst predicted. However, until March .->r April there is Utile or anj' chanc- < cf aciivo niev3ur.-3 boii-g adopted ; thereafter tin-re is every hopo i' a river uil! re.iuitifi its mdin iry winter level, aud not be omlruci.ive to the necessary woiki when begun. i'he small pa'ches oi crops on the island are, as ordinary, looking wi-11. Never did Sprit../ set ie wiih such promising prospects as that of 1878 ■ of course tho Autumn returns will be nil. Stil' tin; islanders are determined to persevere and are strong in tho hope that by the revolution of another autumn, the garden of Oiago will, to a great extenr, as.-.ume its former luxuriance