MOSSBURN.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 165, 21 July 1896, Page 3

MOSSBURN.

The weather hero to-day is anything but pleasant, show having begun to fall early, this morning, and continuing more or' less' all day, while towards evening, as the wind rose.-the cold became more intense, • and showers of slqet, accompanied 'by drifting snow, pievnifed. lam glad that to-night, the sky is beginning to assume a more settled appearance. We haS-e been so ' long accustomed to fine weather thatanything lite a snowstoim appears to us very undesirable. Let us hope that it may not . continue long, and that, the present.- dark lowering atmosphere-w ill soon ; be replaced by the sunny^hy and bracing 1 atmosphere of the past three or femr months. y~ Never in its history has our' little township been busier than'nt-_pi'esent. The carpenter. 1 ; ore busy finishing a Government residence for some of the railway officials stationed here, while Mr Shields' (saddler) is getting a shop ond dwelling . erected near the railway station. There' aro works about to bo proceeded wUh on tha school ground; Mr Hughes has had another forge added to his premises, while -ftfj_/ William Beer is gtt rig his house nnd grounds renovated and beautified. It is reported that Mr Chewings intends contesting the coming election, while another rumor has it that we are to have our former member, Mr Cowan, in the field, it being the wish of many that he should allow himself to be nominated. This gentleman certainly will have tho support of many should our present member not seek- re-election. Tho Quadrille Assembly hero continues to be well- attended, and goodwill ahd peace ' and harmony prevail among the • young-people. Our school was exomined by Mr Braik on the' 29th June, and- passed a good examination, although fully- four weeks earlier thon the specified time. Tbo Bey. Mr Wa f .son, I am sorry to say, has been laid up witli a severe cold. There bas, therefore, been no Episcopalian .'service here, during last month. 'All agricultural matters are well forward, arable land being turned over in ' large . areas, and should a fine spring fayot us, sowing will riot be impeded in this way as last year. Pastoral matters ore equally favorable— a shoep farmer recently complaining to mo that his sheep were too fat. This snow will soon remedy that if it should continue for any time. July 17, 1896.