PORTOBELLO.

Otago Witness, Issue 1559, 24 September 1881, Page 13

PORTOBELLO.

(PROM OUB OWN CORRHBISONDBNT.) September 19th.

There is absolujkely no news to record here. We hada'Bbxire of tho storm in tho beginning of last week, but since Tuesday last it has been very dry with, as ft rule, a stroug gale blowing every day. 1 he meeting of thosa interested in the tramway hag been ajrain postponod until next Saturday at 2 o clock, when it is to be held in Coney's Hotel PortobeUo, By-thebyo, I see it is not named the Tramway Com. pany at all, but the Peninsula and Ocean Beach Bailway Oorribany. This is apt to raise a feeling of distrust, as it looks as if there were two companies. Our Volunteers held their monthly shooting match on Saturday last, when Volunteer *• *y™». "£*> proved himself to be the best shot. I understand there is to be a friendly shooting match between three Old Volunteers and the three crack shots of the Company soon; the old fogeys have' had the recklessness , to challenge the Volunteers, and I.tovenqdoubtwiU get a good beating for their temerity. This may be a hoax praised upon your " own,' or it may belaid down to my imagination, nevertheless I have heard It f °Aweftk past last Sunday, I saw three men on horseback, engaged in driving cattle frorh the flatsa i Wickliffe Bay, and taking them toDunodiri w somewhere in that direction. 1 have been to d that one ofthern came to grief, his horse having feUen and BUpped its shoulfler, and it had to bo shot.