SADDLE HILL.
(from: a correspondent.) The outside world, as a rule, hears very little of this place. It is, however, far from being beyond the pale of civilisation, and the inhabitants enjoy most of the conveniences supposed to belong exclusively to those living near to the centres of population. The inhabitants of Saddle Hill are all comparatively well-to-do people ; anything approaching squalid poverty being unknown in the district. There is a good day school, with a very competent and well-trained master in the person of Mr John MTJryde. Religious services are regularly conducted at the school-house and other places ; and a church, in the interests of the Baptist denomination, is in course of erection; There is no public-house for a long distance from the Hill ; but notwithstanding this, a Good Templar Lodge is in full operation, and appears to flourish. The members are acting, doubtless, upon the axiom that prevention is better than cure. The Lodge, too, affords its members the opportunity of meeting together, and spending an evening pleasantly once a fortnight.
A new arrival is not a very common thing at Saddle Hill. And in connection with a " new chum" coming among them, a pleasant incident occurred on the 28th ult. Mr A. Hatelie having settled on the Hill, his neighbours resolved to turn out, and give him a day's ploughing. It says something for the plough-force of the place when we say that there were eight single and three double-furrow ploughs brought into requisition. The amount of land turned over in the one day was something astonishing, and for ail that, the quality of the work was altogether in keeping with the excellence of execution for which Saddle Hill farmers are famous. A supplementary lift has since been given by some of the farmers, who werp not able to turn out upon the occasion named. It affords us pleasure to be able to record this kind, and brotherly feeling towards a new-comer shown by the very " elevated" inhabitants of Saddle Hill.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1341, 11 August 1877, Page 10
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334SADDLE HILL. Otago Witness, Issue 1341, 11 August 1877, Page 10
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