HINDON (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Otago Witness, Issue 1598, 8 July 1882, Page 13

HINDON (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. )

JnlySid The winter is unusiully severo in this quaitur of thowoild. We are favoured with a la'gei simm »f 'Ijo-i« c iinaiic viaita i. mrthat wo icai o: imm lime to time in tho Witness; and it the .ualmr's OiuaS Regulator in Hi-, mercy ti.ought we.) to relieve urn of auy of them, our cry would be, '• Withhold ihu soaring wind," which in iv uhatnluss freedom iiiuos»antl«r howls over this dhtiict. 1 hope it won't run a.vay with any of our settlors one of these dajs. Already it has be .n trifling with one ot their stacks, A pity it fo to distuib them > they seem an industrious parr.y. Encouraged by high; prices and the c;ood crops of laijfi season, they are going iv " big licks " for tho coming one.

Barewo^d, too, A )ws an inciuation for cropping. There" tho plough in busy in ne\r ground 1 . If Uarcv wooa lodta good tenant in the person of MrP gvjn, ifchas^ aebured equally worthy tenants in the pr<s<(-riii propnetory, At least >d far as improvement, g-.ed. i'hey keep on impioviug, and it U in auch hand-, land should, be. They enhance the value of the property, omploy labour, do good to the country, bonehfi society, and deserve a place in the catalogue of usuf ul men.

Kabbits engage most attention in thin part just now. All hands have taken to " hand-'eeding" them, and tho ntupid little things in their innocent ,!iv«d eat too much of the prep.u.ation, and die. Sxm Ueio will scarcely be j. raiifoit, on liarcwood, GlaUbr <ok or Stoker; but on the-o runs proper atte 1 tion Ins all along been given to them, and uon«cqucnt)y ther6 la not now so >< uch difficulty in coping with them as there otherwino would have been. To wage * suecesaiul war ngainst the rabbit is id nece^ary to i se simultaneous ( action. L, is very di-couraxing for a person to go to tho expense of killing hia rubbns, and have only between him ami a fresh stock from hii neighbour's ground the piotcctioii of a wire foi.ee. The Just-in -Time and Gladstone have amalgamated, aud intend crushing stone taken from tho latter in v few days. The Mount H\de Company await favourable weather to make a start.

Mr Cameron has prospected a new pie •■c of ground in the vicinity of the township, and is getting payable gold. Another party adjoining Mr Cameron's claim has bottomed, and got a 3<l\vt piece ou tho bottom He U ntill driving, and has an encouraging prospect. In Styl.oV, Mr J. Young, taking advantage of tho last heavy rain, in tho lh\>t to Htnki; a |i.iti:li. He has not finished working yet, but is expected to coinc to the front with something good.