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Bruce Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 51, 28 June 1909, Page 5

The weather i* moderate for winter. Toko. High Sohool Com'mittoe meets this evening.

A fully uniformed inspector—glorious in gold laoe, etc.—is now to bo seon on the trains examining tickets. Mr Win. Duff, late oi Waihoia, loft last week to tako possession of his now grazing farm near Duntroon.

Attention is direoted to the advt. re D.C,L, whisky, which can be supplied by Messrs Neill and Co. Ltd., Dunedin. Turnip crop 9 arc standing a good deal of eating this year, and there is a prospeot of a surplus area for spring eating, Potatoes are a fair crop only over tho Plain, and wo he-r of cases where thero is a touch oi blight and diseaso in the tubers.

Annual meeting Bowling Club on Tuesday evening in tho upstairs rooms of the Coronation Hall. The report ap» pears in another column.' Tho Parliamentary Union on Wednesday evening discuss tho " Daylight Sav* ing Bill." The proposal is that in tho summer the clocks be set forward.

Mr John Drako'was a prize winner with his pigeons at the Taieri Show. He has secured wins at Balclutha, Invercargill, and other places with the same birds. There are great floods on the Australian rivers on the eastorn side, and the Murray river in Victoria is also in flood. Immense areas of land in tho Riverina district are Hooded aud mauy bridges washed away. Twenty couples or more attended the volunteer basket social on Friday evening in tho new Volunteer Hall. Tho floor is a splendid one for danciug. Tho M.C.'s kept things going with a swing, and the social was a very pleasant affair. Mr J. Johnstone (piano) supplied excellent music.

The Mayor—Mr J ADuihie—is pre» Bently at Parnell, Auckland, and will not be back for a week or two yet. He is eDjoying good health, and is taking advantage of hia holiday to enquire closely into all matters connected with town lighting in different parts of the North Island, The Laird of Meadowbanlc—Mr J, S, Fleming—has gone in for pig feeding this winter on a fair scale. He is crushing hia grain and feeding with small potatoes and Swede turnips. He has over a hundred pigs paddocked on a dry part on tiie Toko Kiver bank with plenty of straw shelter, and the porkers are doing very well, " WellNWishor" is the nom de plume of the second prize winner in the senior class in the children's essays on the Toko Farmers' Club winter show, and the writer is requested to furnish his or her name to the secretary, as the name has been mislaid by that gentleman. Mr D. T, Fleming, candidate for the Southern Ward in the Education Board, has already been nominated by members of Wyllie's Crossing (Tuieri), Clinton, and Balclutha District High School committees. Several other committees have also written tor his signature oi oonsent to nomination forms, but as Bent has already been lodged iu tho Education Office further consent does not necessarily require to be attached to each nomination.

In view of no-license coming into force on Thursday next we are safe in asserting that tho volume of business done in case whisky during last few days must have exceeded that done in any similar period of time hitherto, It is stated that 48 cases arrived at Milton wishin three days last week, the greater proportion of which is not going into hotel consumption, but ia on order by private indivi* duals, Private orders, which very ofton went through the hotels, have now gone direct to Dunedin wholesalo houses.

The Waronui mine management Jhavo now their new tunnel from the outside connected with the inward workings', and the result is a great benefit to the ventilation of the mine, One or two little minor troubles, which ofien aflhci. the mine manager, have been success' fully overcome, The new drive is 11-£ chains long, and will be continued furs ther in, and when everything is corncompleted tho cost of getting out the coal and over tho new bridge to the loading bank will be considerably losseued. Meantime the miners are on full time getting out the coal to fill tho waiting orders. Business, wo hear, is very brisk in the Waronui coal trade.