KYEBURN DIGGINGS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 479, 12 September 1878, Page 3

KYEBURN DIGGINGS.

• ' (From our own correspondent.) The advent of spring, although so far n fc very genial, lias been hailed with feelings of thankfulness by all and sundrj in this neighborhood. Tho winter, which we now hope is over, is said to be the severest ever experienced here, even by. the oldest residents ; and, if further eTideuce was wanting, the stock to he seen along the roadsides certainly sufficiently testifies to its unusual severeity. If the Ira veiling reporter for the 'Witness' was to visit the Maniototo at the present time I imagine he would find no lack of "emaciated" and "hide-bound" animals, in the shape of both sheep and cattle, to : feast Hs eyes upon, and afterwards edify' the readers of die 'Witness ' with a description thereof. -J.

Mining, farming, and gard nring operations are now being pushed on vigorously. Some of the really industrious farmers in the vicinity, to make up for lost time, work alike.Sunday and Saturday, if not following the plough mending fences, chaff-cutting, &c, being their usual occu : pation on the seventh day. Those.are ; the class of farmers we want to make theManiototo what it ought to be 1.. ... We were last week honored with a visitFroib. a constable, : whp,.intimated tbat r all unregistered dogs lia : d forthwith to be registered at the Camp, Naseby. Now, sir, I would like to know why the police don't collect that tax as usual, instead of compelling owners of dogs to leave their occupations, and either hire a horse or trudge to .Naseby, which will, after counting the time lost and other unavoidable expenses, cost, them thirty shillings. I therefore think, unless the tax cao be collected without causing so much unnecessary trouble and expense to owners of dogs, the revenue from that source will be very small from outlying districts. The first consignment of books for the library, consisting of between forty and | fifty volumes, has arrived from Duncdin; and, judging from the catalogue, the Com- i mittee has made a very judicious selection 1 to begin with. There are already twentyfive subscribers on the books, and everything bids fair for a prosperous career.