KELSO. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
July 4th.
Not many yeara ago a well-known watchmaker at Baiclutha— then Clutha Ferry— adopted as a trade mark ''Established before the Flood." Those now iv business in Kelso can with equal propriety adopt a similar motto— for sure enough this/has been a season of floods. Scarcely were ttie flood-marks of May obliterated by the passing winds when those of June capped them by many inches. In the lower settlements the water was fuliy 18 inches higher, and at the hotel and flour-m.ll the water was within a few inches of the flooring. We are now fully convinced that all the buildingshitherto erected are built on too low foundallons-'-a tin e'y warning for thoie now intending to build. Amongst the latter ia a store for Mr Murraj, of Dunnet'a Hotel. Mr Murray in in company with an old-establlahod Invercargill firm, and Intends carrying on a general store— from a needle to an anchor. My remarks on Sunday trading have had the desired effect, aud 1 am iv hopes, n/nv that a large influx of navvies iB sure, that tho good sense of thoec in business will show itself, and that no further warniug will be required. The roads are now completely saturated, but a large quamity of grain i» still coming in— prinoipall.. wheat.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1598, 8 July 1882, Page 13
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219KELSO. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Otago Witness, Issue 1598, 8 July 1882, Page 13
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