WYNDHAM. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Otago Witness, Issue 1596, 24 June 1882, Page 13

WYNDHAM. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

June IStli.

Our Pastoral and Agricultu al Societ) r announoa their intention to hold their first Grain ami Seed Show hero on Thursday, July Gfch, when first and second prizes of LI and inn, an.l an hon. certificate for the third, will he gi<tn fo.- the following varieties of seeds and roots : - Whiiu wheat, red when, short oat«, long oats, barley ; pereijuial, Italian, timothy, a - d cocksfoot giaas seeds; potawies (three Huts of prizes for different varieties,. Besides these and the usual run of smaller prizes, a champion prize of £2 will be offered for the best wheat of any v&rietv, and certificate of merit in all easo when deemed worthy. In a large and fertile district snub as this we may naturalh expect that this Show will he of a supor'or kind, and 'must prove highly advanta^eois to the neig-hliourhoed. I observe in la t week's Witness that "Old Fanner, 1 ' Oamaru, lias been "asked to bo a judge" at a ploughing niatcli — a request which appears to have staggered him somewhat, as we find hin searching' ca*i fully all the latent issues of the Witness and Daily Tunes, in which he notices that there is a change ( iiftereuoe, I presume) of opinion regarding the stjle of work at matches being against " hi^h cut." Then we observe him tuaki.'ig a FU).iurhuman dash amount his book-i, collecting quite a pile of extra t». and biindling them oil" to the Witness. All this may be panlMuMo ; hut if Mr " Old farmer" tannot yoke up a ) air of h is. a, go to a match, and pi aiyh as «-traisrlit as 11,111 with, plenty of " high cut," and carry off a piiz •, T 110 imj(j C'lusiiler him lit to bc"a-ked to bo a jadgu" a 1 ; a ploughing mafch, and would htron/ly a.lviso him to decline the request,, at least until he hai solved the "high cut" enigma, 'which is only one point or qmlity conneett'd with piize ploughin;.'. Mr John HauUne (late of the firm of Young and Ranki.ic, butchers, &c , hcr^) is nhout to co'mneii' 0 business on his own account as general I'nrekoTO'j and is at present busy gottin? forward the required materials far the erection of his new premises, which will he fronting the main street, and adjoining the Farmers' Arms Hotel.

I hrar to-day some faint rumour that a very fad and fatal accidont happened on Friday last at Fortrose, a young gentlo:rian haying accidentally shot himself while out dm k-shooting nbout the Mataurni rb er banks, but no doubt your Fortrose oorrespondont will givo you a particular account of this Bad occurrence.

Tho weather at present Is suitable for the smith'a wife's toast, " Frost and rain, and' frost again," in the old country, to ensure plenty of horse-shoeing for her better half.