SOUTHLAND LETTER.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7253, 12 January 1889, Page 3

SOUTHLAND LETTER.

(FROM OUR COEBE9POND2NT.J

We have had » fine time of It dttrln* the past week, splendid weather, and ample opportunities of eujoyinj? onj&elves, and we have taken it out joroperiy. oommenclng on Tuesday with the Gsksooaiaa games in the Invercargill Park. This is the great meeting place of the year for the country people, and they came in crowds. I suppose there wsre well on tot four thousandpeople oa the gwaxtd donas the day, which was fine but awfaliydtesty. and the people coming off the gronod looked as though they had been abcrat a brick field. The entertainment at their shows la not of a very excttißg kind, but it seems to serve the purpose, for the people . go to it in large numbers. In the evening there was a Scottish concere, which was very enjoyable. The same evening the exhibition of the Southland Horticultural Society, which had been opened daring the day, was visited by considerable numbers of people. Considering the scat oi weather we have been having lately it is highly creditable to the Society that they were Able to bring together e»«& an excellent collection at flowers, fruit add vegetables. Later on, no d oubfc, the vegetables would have appeared to greater advantage, but If not held on this holiday time, it would have been missed by most of the country visitors, Wednesday, the second at January, was the great day of the week, and we may say all'hands went to the Bluff, tfcafc wing Begatta day. Some six tfaoaeana people went down, and but a small portion of these number seemed to trouble themselves about the regatta, the rail attraction of course Jβ the seasJds. Great crowds of people lined the beach, and ell over the hillsides the peoplo were rsatioi? and enjoying themselves, Tee day was reooarkaoly fine, and in the eveotag the people returned to town evidently well pleased with their day's oatlcg. Titfs brought the holidays to aa eodT fchat ;ia nominally, for I really think that Satoretoy .night was the real fiaLsh of the Jsoltoay season. Of one thingT&m certain a great; deal of work was not done during the latter part of the' week. ' . .. . With such fine weather lt.U:mt sarprlsing to hear very eacowaglng tocojmla concerning the state' of the various parts of the colony; evesytliiag Is late of coarae bat better late than never as on the other aide. _~ * , * Of the tin discovery at Stewart's lelsao. there ie nothing further to add. #io£»f*r Black returned from Duaedln asJAaoe- ? inning of the week, and is or*r un he Island again. 1 believe he la oa a prospecting toar. Tbm e©mpany of prospectors who caM® tm discovery have aU been ing mattere over ac to iha satore w^ i in! of the efoaad, but no resoMloa hm bein arrived at. Most of the piwgedam are poor men, ana U-will .'leaainjw taeej sayatooaeandpounde'to mt tMffiga }sf working order, when It is quite jw^f^® [they would have eomsthing in aawl so rax ? M the wind with. At presets t&j thing is stuck, a company mast fee *&>*"»» to workthe ground; &any P«g epectore must part with some their interest to persons who «& sSleafc capital to work it S , lend money tot that porpwe, as mast be given: of thtethe be quite certftia. to hand ia concerned time B b , a Sffig brit looking s* the ground>ead' the value of the tod w©B'fcgE&*s°as.

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