A DEPARTING FARMER.

Mataura Ensign, 28 January 1911, Page 5

A DEPARTING FARMER.

♦ VALKDKTOKY TO Mlt JUV!N<; I hen* was a large gatherm;* oi the (/'ore li icnds oi Mr Iticlmrd Irving, jun, oi Clinton, at Mr C. Cooper'* residence. Kasit Cure, last evening in order to bid him farewell prioi to bin departure lor Vancouver. .Mr Cooper * barn and residence wore taxed to their utmost to accommodate the visitors Tin l evening u»is spent in dancing, interspersed with wmgs, mutations and interesting retmnisenccs Mi S. (i. Jnder who acted as cluilfnuiii. at a suitable interval in the, proceedings icteiTod to the appronching departure ot their guest and made ie iercnce to the great interest. Mr livuig had taken in agricultural pnisnils <kpeeiallv hi producing -Ja*j* xtock Mr 11 nig Lad esablislicd a reputation throughout the Dominion us a stoekbreedi !■ and nothing but "the bent, would >wi please linn. Such a muii could ill be spared from the ranks «>j » larming community. Wherever no H'eiil lie would be a cretlil to the dlntiict from which he came. Mr Inder in coneliisio.i asl.t l Mi Irv ni|'s accept.- ■ i lice ol a >d\e) le eiise for llillise'l and i. lady'* silwr liar pin case (or Mis Irv in:.* a* a suit ere expression of Ihe e-ti eni mi w'l.jch I be r"eiploiit>- Were held tiv their <.*iu*t• Imi'lkU. Slloit <NI •« sm-s vv aKccl'-hvered by Mcsms l>. MiiedomiM. .1. Mitchell. \V. I''. 111 d<■ i . I'. Wybcr. (I. MacKuy, C. Coupe:. \\ . I'aker. ;:nd It. L. Christie, after u! ,-!t Mr 1 ivmg suitable n 'I 1C«I. mi their goodness «>t litiii t and their tokens oj goodwill. He »t.it<d that he Would ntlll littVC K w.itin K 1 ier S u'thl.uid and v< uW do In- M.it totwiid-s getting moiiim South!;..l I piojiicts into \ ancoli\e'