MOSSBURN JOTTINGS.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 635, 14 September 1899, Page 2

MOSSBURN JOTTINGS.

(From Our Own Correspondent). The weather here now and recently has smelt of spring, ana all Nature' is pointing to an early season.- Farmers are busy.and are satisfied that so far they are well in advance : of former years. In warm, sheltered places the fields, are now assuming quite a coat, of c - verdure.. . ' „ I ' ' Sheep may be seen changing hands here ' ■ frequently, either sent to Burnside or , Wallacetown or sold privately, and still ' , there is but little appearance of the diminution. We are again beginning to assert ourselves after the recent fire, and one may now see quite a~ change on the township by the erection of large farm buildings on Mr Beer's farm of Bound Hill, to be followed shortly ' m . by a handsome residence on an excellent ' site overlooking the river. Ere this Teaches you the Railway; Hotel (so long and favorably known as Beer's) will be occupied by Mr Milne, late of the Commercial., Let us wish him every success in his new undertaking. He certainly has had the fates against him lately. .However, fortune favors : - . the brave, and in his present, position he can't miss succeeding. Our school has passed well, those who : attended regularly doing well. The Homil- . ton Burn residents, with their 'characteristic, energy, are about to erect a cottage for the, use of their teacher. ' I think that the people ' of this place must follow on somewhat the : same lines, as I see the Education Board has / again refused their application for an addition to the residence. Quite a large number of trees have been planted' in the sohool ground this year. We are continually re- i minded by strangers, of the need there is fora church. All we want* is. someone to initiate it.' . ,

A diamond weighing between six and seven carats, was recently found on the Boggy - Camp field (NiSiW.)" *&...-, '>-'-" ■.-'•-,-:".".•■ "' *-- '- • ■' , .v,;-^