KELSO.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 15, Issue 1306, 18 July 1893, Page 5

KELSO.

It is' some considerable time now since such a large concourse of people assembled at the Tapanui cemetery aB was to be seen oa Saturday last. The sad occasion was the burial of a daughter of Mr M. McCarthy, of Dunrobin, Tfce deceased young lady was of a decidedly intellectual turn of mintl when alive, and acted the role of amanuensis to her father. It is needless to say universal sympathy is felt for the Borrowing parent in his sad bereavement.

Mr J. F. Herbert left Ardmore on Saturday for an extended tiip through the Australian Colonies. Mr Herbert intends remaining away for about six weeks and has left Mr Poynter, late of Conical Hills, to lock after his interest in his absence. Writing of Ardmore, this is decidedly one of the very finest agricultural stations in New Zealand, and one particularly adapted for seitlement. Mr Herbert, 1 understand, would sell at a fair price. If the Government could only be induced to go in for such land ts Ardmoie is and get it settled, a veritable waye of prosperity would flow over the whole tiist ict. Kelso in particular would benefit, but until either Greenvale or Ardmore or both are cut up, Kdso is simply the centre of a tremendous land-locked block of country relieved here sni there with solitary farms. The demand for both sheep and. cattle for freezing purposes is causing a strain indeed in the production, and in the very near future New Zealand will not be able to export the quarr.itiss of mutton demanded of her, JSosv, Sir, it ia a perfectly well-known fact tnat with judicious and caieiul farming three times che amount of stock could be raised that is done in odinary Btatiou management. Such being the case, in the interests of our young nation, large properties that are situated in the very centre of cultivation, I consider, ought t) be cut up.

At divine service on Sunday 1 >st in Qlcckenich, the Rev. Mr Oomrie made a neat and touching reference to the death of Mr [ Bell, the late teacher of the Glenkenich | school. The deceased gentleman w-s a moat careful and painstaking teacher, and the sad news of his death caused a feeling o£ thedoepeat sorrow in our miust. new rabbit poison " toxa," like barb - wire, has certainly its drawbacks in addition to its advantages. A farmer not^ 100 miles from KeLso laid a quantity in a shallow trough, and placed it about 70 yards from bis dwelling?, intending it of course for bunny's delectation only. Just fancy, fcir, his mingled joy and pain on finding next morning three of his neighbor's dog, 359 rabbits, two sheep, his two-year-old child and mother-in-law all gone to glory ! | Moral— Be careful where you lay " toxa.'V.X