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MANDEVILLE NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent). Tbe wvather is all i'mit could be desired, but a little too dry for the farmers. The orops are beginning to shoot, and to all appearances will ba short, the torrel showing above tbe oats in many places. An early harvest is assured, more especially if it keeps dry for another week. During the last three days a very high wind has betn blowing, and a shower is needed. Turnips are giving a fair promise of a good crop, and no doubt will be tho best paying crop for 11)01. Grass at tbe present tinu< is abundant, and stock of all kinds is in prime condition. After the holidays 1 think theie will be a movement in sheep, anil there is no doubt this district is Vciry much understocked. JjYotri a matrimonial point of view, Maudeville is coming to the front. Three marriages have taken place within the last fortnight, and there sue rumours of more to follow. The newly married have taken their departure to their honeymoon, which is the prevailir.g fashion in this enlightened age.

A meeting is called for this (Wednesday) evening in ilie hall to discuss the Otamita bridge question. Bumor has . airied currency iliiLt the llokoriui riding is to be rated, If toat is contemplated there will be a big light, I think uur County member is quite alive to air intSie-f.s and wilt not be caught napping. The public school closed the day before Christmas for a month's holiday, Christmas has corou and gone, with all its joys, anticipations, and glad hopes, bringing with i; a feeling of goodwill and friendsdip. A 1 around, every hand shake, one is greeted with a merry Christinas and a happy New V>:ar, and as Dickens puts it, we all come !,i;me at Christmas. Auikl all the hurry and liosile of this busy life it is well to gather aruund the old hearth and join in the i-divities which ought to be the occasion lor the expressions of the rich' st life of the home. In the middle of a New Zealand summer it is impossible to emulate the old Scotch custom, with the blading Yule log crackling under the pot that holdi the sooums lor the Yule supper, when every one in ihe hoose hid las tak thar turn wi' the spurtle lae stirr the soouns tae the required thickness, an' when the fest wis over the big Bible wis ta'en doon, an 1 alt in the hoo*e had tae read verse ab iot, an' finished up wi' singiu' the uvcmy-ihird l'silm—the Lord is my Shepherd. Xhesu good old time ordinanuss are last, dying out, even the cflildren are beginning to disbelieve in S-inta Clans, the tendency being to hold Chnsim 'S as an urd nary hoi day, 1 wish all my readers the compliments c.f the season and a happy New Year.

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Mataura Ensign, Issue 1273, 31 December 1903, Page 7

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MANDEVILLE NOTES. Mataura Ensign, Issue 1273, 31 December 1903, Page 7

MANDEVILLE NOTES. Mataura Ensign, Issue 1273, 31 December 1903, Page 7