Clutha News Items.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 58, 25 June 1908, Page 8

Clutha News Items.

(From the Clutha Leader.) At a meeting of the South Otago Coursing Club, held at Stirling on Friday evening, it was decided not to have a coursing meeting this season, but to have one oarly in the following season., A**a finality in regard to thafcandWate;toJoppoße,Mr James Allen for Bruce at jioxt election, we understand ttieiV the Liberal i and; Labour, Federation Has decided; to support either Mr Thomas Mackenzie or l)r Chappie, and not to bring out any local candidate. Residents of Balclutha could not haveTfailed,to.notice the severity of the frosts these last two mornings. The water on the ballast-pit in the reserve is frozen over, the ice being, so thick that big stones can . hardly, break it. If the snap continues, good skating should boob be obtainable. In regard to prices for turnips on Inch Clutha, Mr Peter Anderson'B crop was sold.at £l2 an acre—the top season, and, as our inputs it,.''made the price for all 'the bthertr" Mr Barron and others of the Land EttHjhajtfßoard visited the Otano-m£mo->Estate and the CiiftOß■JSsfiate 3 oh '• Saturday in connection the/requests recently made that should be acquired fd#', close '• settlement. Mr Malcolm, M.P., addressee, the eleotortin 'thir, portion of the ron* etituencyin 'the Oddfellows' Hall on good attendance.. Mr Malcolm vill fay that time have completed a tour old the electorate, and he informs us that everywhere the oordialils with which he: was- received was most marked, anct that he could not bo otherwise than, highly- gratified. Mr Andrew Carruthers, of Pukepito, forthe third year in succession, won the prize for most points in roots at the Bunedin Winter, Show. For some rws<m or ojher tbe result was not onnounced In-.■the'-" full report© of the. show at the-time,' and. wi,©hly knew of it fey Inquiring from Mr Carruttwrs on Saturday. He produoerl trie statement of prices, which showed a record of whieh any man might be proud. The crash discussed River Board ~ Harbour Board question woe advanced a stageif)n*tftel a solution on Fridayi when r one short of a dozen delegate? representative of . the interests both up and down river meA the Biver Board in conference, and for a period of about two and a-half hours threshed the matter out. The combined conference, by ten votes to six, decided in favour of thi constitution of the;-Board remaining as at present. Ons L nottcJßable feature of the, discussion was that everyone appeared satisfied with the Biver Board and its management, of the river traffic. Ml\J. E. Keenan, member of the Tuapeka County Council for Clarke Riding, and secretary of the Tuapeka Mouth i Railway and Close Settlement League* 'who* for some years, paßt has taken a leading part in all matters affecting the .welfare and advancement of the.Tjaapeka, Mouth distriot, and also'' in all social functions in the same locality, has decided to relinqmshfannjng. pursuits for a time and apply himself.to Btudy, and with this end in view he will enter the Christian Brothers' school. It is his intention to prepare for the matriculation examination and afterwards attend the New Zealand University. Mr Keenan has showq himself to be a young man of some literary gifts, force of character, and fluency of speech, and his ambition to improve himself is worthy of emulation. Whatever Mr Allen's opponents in Bruce have to say against him and they have a good deal to say one ol the things they have no justification for saying is that the district has suffer* ed at his hands in the matter of Parliamentary votes. Indeed, we never heard this suggested till the ».ther night, but it appears the story has been persistently circulated round about Stirling and Inch Olutha. And not only that, but it appears further that some of the votes he did get others claim the credit (or. Mr Allen is not a politician who parades to the publio eye the votes he is able to get, and thereby he it. made to suffer unjustly. A perusal of the Estimates ehowß that Mr Allen has done remarkably well for this end rA Bruce, and in respect of some of the votes the wonder is how be managed to get them.