OWAKA.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXV, Issue 2141, 4 August 1908, Page 4

OWAKA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) We are getting through th« winter not so badly. The weather might be much noise, and id though pasture is scarce,, the giass has never quite lost its green look. Spring bulbs are coining through the ground nicely, and everything points to an early •season. i'eopie with gardens are tawing advantage of the occasional line nays to turn up the sod. Mr ii. ilcintyre is at present going round the Various iarma with Ins ehull-cutter, and is in grout request. <-hall is selling at the high, price ol iM per ton. 1 urnips are lairly plentilui in the district, and stock is looknig well all round. .\s lar as 1 have uouoed, very lit lie ploughing has been done yet. 1 believe yet another sawmill is in course of erection on what is i.nowu as the "Big Mill' site, Woodlands. Jhe Houtlieru Steamship (omp.-uiy's steamer Bakiura arrived » m Sunday Willi part of the plant, and and the misfortune to run aground on a sandbank some distance Horn the jetty. 'lhe next high tide, however, put tilings to rights, and the plant was snteiy landed next day. (Juit« a number of people walked down to the n\er on Sunday al'n.iiuoh i,> have a look at (he little st-anicr, while ilu.-e who did not care to face the mud went to the top ~f Mount Osborne to get a view. ■Mr .lames Scott, U l Ownka Vallev, has |ii\eu up Ips. l'.,rm, ' I'leasaiU Grove," and is seeking pastures new alter a sojourn of some II \«ars umoiig us. All his hou.rh'ild iumituie, I'urui implements, stock, enps, etc., vveie sold vestordav, auo I was pleased to hear that" everything realised a good price. Mr Scott has bought a farm ol -oine 'Vim ~. iv.i in Canterbury, where lie ami his wife, who is a daughter of «ho kite Mr Gnen, and mm ly intend removing nexv week. »Mr Scott, like the rest of us, has some faults, but has also many good points in his .'it.ir.fter, and many of us are sorry o> loso both him and his family. 1 wish them every success in their new homo. The linal Banner (est match was playod between Clinton and Ownka at BulcUithu today, and enthusiasts took a keen interest in the inane, 'ilia result was a draw, so 'our hoys" get the banner for the fourth time, (