COUNTRY ITEMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8419, 16 February 1889, Page 5 (Supplement)

COUNTRY ITEMS.

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A bullock was killed at niverton last week ia which was found a 701b kidney. The local County Council have decided fco extend telephonic communications from Hamilton to Sow-

-Mr Wilson ITall, of JiivHrsdnle h.-n n - nn nf . }nn from"a spring eaWon^w'jlh Mn S bhr ™» rale m^r/aStto^ JX °Ui °C ""oHecled turnips and considerably improved the sUs th* Dredging operations in the Molyueux at Moi PInJ-

Small birds are very troublesome in the Gore dis fcnefc. Wherever the orops are ripening the? may,» seen flock ng fco and from the Ledges and the array Mr J Jolmston, of Awamoko, is BhowW somp. wheat heads ranging from .lln to eflnto femrth With one execution all the berries nro o ln»lh. S i" and the yield, if the neld is of a iko d es er Xic, ' must ha enormous. u "tnpnG», (lie illi. It jiimpe'l Forn proper, which n local Iklipr

of the mineral from the island sample CotmcffalL«i me6tl! W «* ««e Manlototo PC<mnt r slate a cnse for tho considoratlon of the Sunremo Court relative to tlie iuterpretation of Boctiouio, o f .the Counties Act 1880." which authorises roimd", to vote reasonable travelling expenses to councillors lho Moernlti School Is now under tUe charge of V nnstress for the first time sinoa it was started 1* years ago. At one time there was an average of over large estates. »j».i«.m up m

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K'SK—" 1 ■■«■ "i'"fe.'t»?," h"Aft ™.So^u."rt oris,«~s-u!?'sirß ni ''ii»a'«| Ilitfiill notdainig to venture more than about 40ft from high water mark without laying themselves open to an notion for trespass. Could a strip of laud, half p. mile m width, have been w thheld from sala along tne ehoro, and a thousand acres or 60 preserved as a 1 people's park or recreation ground, it would have proved "a boon and blessing" in the future, when the population of Otago will extend into the millions.