WANGALOA.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1038, 15 June 1894, Page 6

WANGALOA.

[FROM OCR OWN CORKEBFONDKNT.] It is some time since I wrote you, and yet there is very little to chronicle from this district. The threshing mill has finished np for a season, and the returns are not up to expectations, neither h the quality of grain. The farmers have gone in for a good supply of chaff this year. Wo had a visit from Mr John M'Guffog, of Balclutha, with his double-bagger machine, which gave every satisfaction. The sheep are now on the turnips, hut the wet weather is very much against them. We have had three days steady rain, and every place is in a flooded state, which will put a stop to ploughing for some time <o come. I notice Mr Johnson has got a considerable amount of ground ploughed already, and nearly all the farmers have got more or less ground turned over for green crop. Some have this season gone in very extensively for draining and improving their land in that, way. They are feeling the benefit of it during the wet weather. The rabbits are still to the fore, although I do not think they are on the incree.Be. They got a terrible thinning in some parts during the poisoning operations. S<,mo of the farmers tried the toxa this year, but, as far as I hare heard, with very poor result?. They appear to think that the poisoned grain, when properly mixed up, is preferable to the toxa, and the rabbits appear to take it more readily. A great deal of sickness prevails throughout the district at the present time. This is no doubt owing to so much dirty weather we have been having lately. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper was to have been dispensed here last, Sabbath, but owing to the inclemency of the weather and the small gathering it was thought advisable to postpone it to Sabbath fortnight. Thpre is very little sign of the weather taking up at the time of writing. Wangaloa, June 11.