LOVELLS FLAT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 56, 25 February 1913, Page 5

LOVELLS FLAT.

(From .Our Own .Correspondent.)

During the last week we have had a good deal of rain, whifeh, while doing the turnip crops a great deal of. good, lias put a brake oil harvest "operations, which haye become general throughout the district. On the whole, this £ear 's crops are light. The «hoir ( lias been quite busy lately practising Scotch songs. On Friday bers journeyed through rain and wind to Hillend and gave a programme to the people there. On Saturday they held their picnic at Mount Stuart, and had a good time. On Friday evening, 21st inst., a Scotch concert in aid of the tree planting fund was given by the choir in the Coronation Hall. The subject was. "Lady Nairne and Her Songs," and quite a number of old favorites, such as '' The Auld,-Hoose," " Hunting Tower,'' "Lass o' Gowrie," "A Hundred Pipers," etc., were rendered to an interested audience. Between each song Rev. A. Morton spoke of the conditions under which the authoress composed it, and the events, as far as one could judge, which had been her inspiration. ,He also gave a short summary of Lady Nairne's life, and it seems quite appropriate that the third daughter of staunch supporters of the Stuarts, and bearing the name of Carolina, after the young chevalier, should write such stirringly loyal lays as "Wha'll bB King but Charlie" and "Will Ye No Come Back Agaia." The writings of Lady Carolina Nairne • are universally recognised as aa. important and beautiful part of Scottish minstrelsy, and it has been extremely interesting for the Lovelis Flat choir to have learnt more of this writer's tender lays,,and also something of the gentle lady herself. The soprano solos were taken by Mrs Kerr and Miss Slater; "The Bonnie Brier Bush" was given as a .duet by Mrs Kerr and Miss Rob Son; and Mrs Kerr and Mr Morton sang "HuntingTower." The singing on the whole was fair. The performance closed with Lady Nairre's beautiful song, "Guid Nicht and Jay Be Wi''Ye A'." The Sunday school children are at present practising for their concert, which is to.be held about Easter.

Mr Jasper Olark is erepting a new ten-roomed dwelling house on his property. The contract is, I understand, in the hands of his brother, Mr G. Clark, of Dunedin.

It is reported that Messrs Currie have disposed of their shearing plant to Mr D. Kerr at a satisf actQry figure.