MOSSBURN JOTTINGS.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1033, 15 May 1902, Page 2

MOSSBURN JOTTINGS.

(l'rom Our Own Correspondent). The harvest in neaiing completi n after lii'iny interruptions. Those who had cropg Btanding uncut owing to late sowing mo luckier than thoso who were harvesting during what used to be harvest weather. But I am iifrnid that in the one case the grain is discolored and in the other not filled. Let us hope that prices will hold good foi some time to enable farmers to make good the loss to some extent. The sloek sales held here recently wcro well attended ; that of the 7th nil. especially so. At to day's (Monday) sale the attendance was not so hirge nor th« number of sheep so very oxtenwve. The quality of* sheep was good : in some casus rather better than at the last sale. At the last meeting of the church committee held here, Mr ltoy proposed that a fortnightly service was desirable. This, being seconded by Mr Tullocb, was carried. It is under consideration to have Oarston, At hoi, and Mossburn formed into one charge under a Union missionary, the resident minister at liUin.sdeii to have the districts of Balfour and surrounding places, as well as Luinsden as his pastorate. Our school committee for the ensuing year is as follows: -Messrs Dyer (chairman, McCauley (secretary). Hood, McCaughan, llcid, .Joseph Beer, and Cliflord Beer. What appears to have been an extensive landslip has recently occurred in the upper reaches of the Oreti river. The river during the recent floods floated down immense quantities of timber, some trees of great magnitude being left on tbe banks after the flood subsided. This comes in at a very opportune time, just as the winter is beginning and people want lircwood, which is scarce and expensive as a rule there. You may therefore hear of its being carted away, not in drays, but in waggons.