MILLERS. FLAT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1028, 6 April 1894, Page 5

MILLERS. FLAT.

, *> , [VilOM OUR OWN* CORRESPONDENT.] Our farmers in Millers Flat are now busy threshing, ancl the yield is said to be wheat 40 bushels, and oats 80 bushels per acre. The quality of the grain is in proportion to the yield, so that as far as the farmers are concerned they ought to be thankful and satisfied. Mining is rather quiet at present. The river up to this has been exceptionally high for dredging, so that the returns from that source have not come up to expectations. The election passed off here very quietly. Although previous to the election there Seemed to be a good deal of interest taken, yet on polling day comparatively few took the trouble of recording their votes, and not a few found to their astonishment and disgust that their names had been struck off the roll. However, the existing feeling of those who recorded their votes was in a vast majority on the side of temperance, and one of our local publicans is said to have voted for no license. We are all proud of the Clutha people, and congiatulate them on the deckled victory they have scored. The eyes of the country will no doubt be fixed on the district for the next three years to mark the effect the 'change will have on the community morally, socially, and politically. There is every jreason to believe that the noble example set by the Clutha electorate will be followed by a large majority of the country at the end of that time, and it is to be hoped that the day is not far distant when the liquor traffic, with all its attendant evils, will be wiped out from the fair shores of Kew Zealand.