The Bruce Herald. TOKOMAIRIRO, AUGUST 25, 1899.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3093, 25 August 1899, Page 4

The Bruce Herald. TOKOMAIRIRO, AUGUST 25, 1899.

At the annual meeting of the Tokornairiro Farmers' Club last night, Mr Driver was re-elected President. Thpre were two candidates: vfr Diiver obtained 27 voles and Mr W. Thornton 15. Full repor. will appear in next issue. Our readers will be sorry to hear of the death of Mr P. Butler, who for some years cm-iied ou business iv the premises now o«:cupiel by Mr F. M'Leol. Hi i death occiur.-d suddenly at Queenstown, ou Tuesday, from heart disease. The coal trade at Kaitangata is pi ticularly bri-k just now, and the company, even when workiDg three full shifts per day, find a great difficulty in meeting the demands made for coal. It h reported that the company intend shortly to open up at C isl e Hill, when no doubt a larger output will be maintained. At a meeting of tho farmers held at Milton on Monday night, to consider the question of the pol lulion of the Tokornairiro river by dredging it was decided to claim damages and apply for an injunction to etop all dredge owners from further polluting tho river. Aa counsel has been advised take action to this effecl the issue will be looked forward to with interest, not only by the parties concerned but also by the public. The Kaitangata Bowling green is at list ap[T achin.^comp'elion, andMr Charters the contractor has been putting ou the finishing louohei and nowiug dowa the grass. Owing to tho broken weather 2 rinks are yet unsown, it being impossib'e to work tho ground while at all damp, Tne lawn is now dead level, and when the new swar I is playable, the green will bear onupirUon W.th the best io Now Zealand. Mr Charters, however, doea not consider t"Q S vee n w 'Jl be ready for pay before the middle of Pecember.

It is understood that Inspector Pardy has been "asked by the Kaifangata 'Miners Benefit Society's Social Committee to enquire into. the alleged inaction of the, cqnstaWe at Kailangat* on Friday evening on the occasion of their annual social. Notwithstanding the fact that the! farmers iutend to go on with their objections to dredging ia the Tokornairiro river,' rumors are curreut that several hew dredges' will, before long, be placed on the river. It is a great. pity for all concerned that matters ia dispute c*nnot even yet bs , amicably arranged without recourse to law. Even coalmining Kaitangata hasbeen smitten with the dredging boom, and; several enterprising citizens are talking; of starting dredges on the Molyueux in its lower res.ehe j . The Measly Beach has lately been pegged out for some miles, and no doubt we shall shortly see a dredge at work on this much talked of locality. The New Zealand Collieries, Railway and Oil Company have imported six coal boring machine?, for work in the Kaitangata mine and they are at present being fitted in; readiness for getting out the coal. They are rather unwieldy looking affairs, and a timid parson at first sight of them would be of tbe opinion t^at the Company are miking preparations for fortifying their mine, from their resemblance to a modern galling gun; Few people have any idea that Bruce County is one of the largest, if uot the largest, egg-producing dis net in the Colony. As a result ef the most careful inquiries ifc has been ascertained that £3000 worth of eggs are annually sent away lo the Dunedin markets, Roughly at sixpence a dozen 130,000 dozen eggs or 1,440,000 eggs are every year exported to Dunedin. The majority of these eggs comes from the |Tokomairiro district. A peculiar freak of nature occurred on Mr Nome's farm on Sunday, when a cow gave birth to twins, whose breasts were attached together, the two ealve3 being born faco to face. TII2 calves were fully developed in every other part, the only deficiency being that the breastbone ends of the ribs of both caves were joined together, the breastbone being absent entirely, thin making the cavity containing the two horns and four lungs continuous. The calves had to be destroyed. This is stated to be the only instance in the district of a bovine Siamese twin. The contractors for the Uiveibank dredge arrived on Tuesday, but found s^ome difficulty in starting to work. The Company, it is said, propov d tobu Id ihe dredge on a property which one of tie fanners near the Riverbank claim allegos belongs to him. He strongly objected \,-> any such proceeding. »nd the contractor* were consequently blocked. Tiie R vo:ba:ik people hive mule a bad slat I, as they h ive cfl'-e---tively goL the backi up of all the owners in the vicinity of their claim. What with the r.ollution of the river question and the rights of property owr ers, the Riverbank Cunpiny have discovered that all ia not g.dd that glitters in a dredjiug company's prospectus. Footballers will see by advt. that a meeting ia called for Tuesday 29th inst. in Mr T. Rjwieys refreshme.it 1 oorns. The Owaka club has hzaa in communication with the O R.F.U. re a reprjsmtafc'.vo ina'ch between 8 uth Otago and a ju lior representative Otago team ; aud the O. R.F.U. havo decided to acquief-e in their icqivst and the mveh will eventuate ul Miltou shortly. ThiSiuth Otago teim wid be picked fioin the Milton, Lawrenc : and Ow.iki Clubs, so it behoves our local [layers to gft into traini g a r < once, ir they wih t-> h:ive a chance of b-dng sj'eot^ I f>r repruseut I'ive honors. The date of the match has not yet been decided upon, but will bi known in a day or so. It is to be hop?d some means of entertainment for tha visitors will be devised by the local players at their meeting on Tuesday nigh*.