WAIMATE NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 8071, 18 March 1901, Page 4

WAIMATE NOTES.

(By onr Oira Correspondent). Last week, ulthouga there were two fine flays, during the remainder of the week there r."trc light mini vrirh. d-unp niirhts. ;•> that progress iu >ec uring the cere.il crops was great It hiudeiv.l. 'liiere is considerable area under oat, .-till in the stocks, and the changeable we.,.th->r ha.s deiaved the stocking and threshing. Practicality ail the wheat and oats are cut in this district, the "wheat is stacked. but there I.* a pood deal of oats yet to stack. The wfto.it- U n«t so good » yield ;ts was espevted. Oats are well above the average. After the close of a protracted t>iiting of Court at Waintate on Sutardav. Major Kedd-i! considered applications .'or th« old ag? pcnsicn renewals and new claims. Seven renewals were granted and two adjourned. Ihree new t*!;n;;is were granted, two for £lB each and „ ae f„ r £l2. One nnr claim w.>> adjourned.

The Committees of jfatugmwnt for »!.« water-race.! in the Loner i'.ireorj. ,uii Wailuo districts recently resigned. and meetings are being convened at which the ■water-rate na.yt.rs are to aijaC'.-e tVr tus election i f n<--.v c ninuttees for the two districts. The ntf-ecis;* of Para.ra district i-. called for Ti:i.- Lir. the 19th iust.. and that for thi Waihao district for Friday, the 22nd instant. The annual concert in aid of St. Patrick's School. Waim'tre. i- to b- held this evening. and judging from this preparations and the ntmvber of di~tirgi.ii.-hfd lingers and performers enjriged it will be as successful as any of tlie preceding concerts of thi'' school, which have ;divarr be-:a popal.tr with th* 'Watmr.rt people and highly saecessfcl in finarcf.tl and art is Ho results. On Thnrsil iy 1 ■>.-? a very handsome green fiag with the Irish hnrp. presented by the ®ev. P. Regnar.lt. was hoisted in St. Patrick's Church •.rrounds, on a flag pole presented by Mr Qninn of Mrkikihi. The Ber. Fathers Regnault and O'Conneli addressed a number of people and scholars who were present on the occasion, remarking that it w.-t.i near the eve of St. Patrick's Day and that St. Patrick's Church and ecbools HEkls an appropriate place to hoist tho Sag pf Ireland, just as the fogs pf

England and Scotland vrere hoisted to convey the pleasure of keeping op the memories of the old lands of tneir respective children.