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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 84, 6 June 1913, Page 5

Hockey Club's invitation dance in Oddfellows' Hall on Wednesday evening. The local Post Office notified us "yesterday:—"The following from Cromwell: 'Very heavy rain up country and here. Sharp risejn river probable.' " During last season the steamers brought down 80,600 sacks of grain. For the current season the indications point to less than half that quantity coming down. It has only come forward in dribbles so far. There was a great exodus of Clutha people bound for the Dunedin winter show this week, lu Dunedin streets one met Clutha people at every turn, and it almost seemed as if the. whole of the population of the district were in the city. On Wednesday evening the Band Hall Pictures showed an excellent picture of the King inspecting the battleship NewZealand at Portsmouth. "Oor Tarn" was prominent in the pictures, and was shown "hob-nobbing with the King" as to the manner born. In addition to Mr Mackenzie it was easv to recognise Sir Joseph Ward.ami Mr Allen, but Mr Mackenzie easily outshone the others. On Tuesday evening an elderly married man named Maurice Flahive, a resident of Milton, was killed at Wingatui by being knocked over by the express. Lt is strange to relate that exactly a year previous to the fatality the same man met with a slight accident in returning from the races at Wingatui on the King's Birthday, on that occasion through falling off the train.

When Hon. Jas. Allen visits Milton ho will be deputationised by members of the Bruce County Council'asking his assistance iu preventing the Otago Harbour Board from carrying out its proposed policy to levy a rate of threesixteenths of a penny on the Otago harbour district. The deputation will also take the opportunity of congratulating Mr Allen on the success of his mission at Home. Two or three of the new settlers who have taken farms on the Otanomomo swamp are now making a move in the way of building and otherwise improving their leaseholds. The state of the roads is a great drawback to these beginners, and great difficulty is met with in carting material and buildings to the properties. One farmer complains that the roads are almost impassable at present, and wound up the complaint with, "Well, it's bad enough for anything when 1 have to take to the fields, and then, of course, there's that jolly old punt to contend with."—Kaiitangata correspondent. A deputation which waited on the Bruce County Council on Tuesday asking that something be done to cut out the willows in the Tokomairiro river at Fairfax said that if the river was not given a clear waterway there would be a danger of it cutting a new channel for itselt. The course of the river was blocked with willows and siltiug-up as a result of the dredging at Glenore, and the damming back of the water was damaging the county road as well as private property. The council intends to get legal' opinion in order to ascertain if owners in whose properties the willows are growing can be compelled to clear them, or if the council undertakes the work to pay the cost of it. The Owaka Men's Literary and Debating Society held their weekly meeting in the Owaka Oddfellows' Hall on Tuesday evening, Mr Halley acting as chairman. The attendance was limited owing to the holiday excursions, but. those present made up for this defect, by their enthusiasm, so much so that an extension of time had to be granted. The subject was "An Evening with the Poets," and among the writers vvhose poems were discussed were Shakespeare, Kipling, Tennyson and Carlton, which afforded plenty of scope for the members. The society is now in a nourishing condition, and the spirit prevailing bids well for a successful result to the young men of Owaka.—Correspondent. The havoc wrought by the recent floods in Gore, and the threatened danger to Balclutha, have led to investigations whereby the Government hopes to minimise the effects of future floods in chose districts (says the Otago Daily Times). Daring the past few days Mr AlcEnnis (district engineer) has been engaged ia making a thorough inspection of the areas subject to inundation in the Clutha, Kaitangata and Inchclutha districts, and will shortly visit Gore for the purpose of inspecting the Mataura river basin to a point some little di:tauce above Riversdale. The data thur-: obtained will be submitted to the Government in due course, and will no doubt form the basis of future protective works that may be undertaken to prevent as far as possible a recurrence of disastrous floods such as those which caused serious damage at Gore | and M» I aura recently. There are but few residents of Balclutha to-day who are able to recall with exactitude the conditions prevailing at the time of the flood of 1878. Mr John Samlilands was at that time living in the house above Toshvale which was for many years afterwards the residence of Mr 1). Stewart, and took a great interest in the flood and its varying rising: and fallings during its four or five weeks' currency. Yesterday he pointed out to the Mayor (Mr D. Stewart), Councillor Fleming and Mr Ramsay (engineer) the heights to which the water rose along the foot of the terrace on Tosh's farm. At its highest the flood covered the whole of the main, road up past, the gate leading into Mrs Tosh's (now Cossen's street), while at the house it reached halfway up the garden [ l;> the verandah from the fence. There wafi only a few square feet of dry land 'on the knoll between Tosh's land and the borough boundary, where' the saleyards used to be. All the points mentioned are lower, than the top of the present embankment, however. The spread of the water would, of course, materially affect the height of the river, and the above observations furnish very urgent reasons for tie removal of the approach at thq nqrth end ot the bridge.

A sitting of the Assessment Court will be held at Balclutha on Wednesday, June 18. It is unofficially reported that the Indrabarah, which has been ashore #n the west coast of the North Island for several weeks, has been towed off into deep water. a Communion services will be held in the Balclutha Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning. The collection, as in past years, goes to the Patients and Prisoners' Aid Society and th.e Dunedin Orphanage. A mild sensation was caused to a wedding parity at Petone on Wednesday by the non-appearance of the bridegroom. The bridegroom, who resides in Christchurch, wired later cancelling the marriage license. The Mayor has roceived word that the Public Works Department will complete the plans and specifications for the river bank protection works. This will mean a saving to the borough running well into three figures. Wednesday's poll in connection with the proposal that the borough raise a special loan of £2600 for protective purposes was carried out quietly, and on account of many of the ratepayers being absent from the town on that day the voting was not heavy. The poll re-sulted:-—For the proposal, 108; against, seven; informal, two. The Bruce County Council on Tuesday received a request from the Balclutha Borough Council to close the road past the cemetery gate at North Balclutha, and to vest it in the borough for cemetery purposes, the borough to pantile cost of closing the road. Councillor J. M. Begg and the county inspector were appointed to inspect the locality and report to next meeting of the council. A variation of the Territorial oath of allegiance was proposed in all seriousness by Mr Tyndall, of Middlemarch [who once aspired to represent Bruce in Parliament], at the first meeting of the Educational Institute this morning But it was not received seriously, being, in fact, the occasion of an outburst of restrained merriment. His motion ran:—"That, in the interests of discipline, it is desirable that all public school pupils over seven years of age should take an oath of obedience to their teachers." There was no seconder to this novel proposi- i tiou.—Star. Satisfaction is the best advertisement. The satisfaction which C. G. Kirby, tailor, Clyde street, Balelutha, has already given to his clients has been sufficient to bring in more and more orders, for a perfect fitting suit attracts as much attention as a badly made one. i The work which he puts into his orders ! advertises his tailoring, and the wearers j advertise him. He has a large stock of the latest winter suitings, and guarantees to put as perfect a finish on his suits as can be got in the cities. Do 1 not spoil a good pieco of cloth by giving ■ it to the "cheap and nasty" style of j tailor, but give good material to a good man and get a good suit. Give him j vour next suit to make, and he will j ■suit you. And, if you need an over- I coat, call along and inspect his stock, i or get one made to order by him.—C. G. j Kirby, tailor, Balclutha.*** j For Influenza take Woods' Great J 'eppermiiil Cure. Never fails. 1/6, 2/6. j