WYNDHAM. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Otago Witness, Issue 1598, 8 July 1882, Page 14

WYNDHAM. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Messrs Carswoll, White, and Co., of InvercamiU held their monthly sale of sheep, cattle, and horses hero on Friday last, and, judging from tho large turn-out of farmers, butchers, and dealers generally, we may safely conclude that this firm are leugthening their cords andstiengthening their stakes as salesmen in thia locality. A large number of store cattle were penned, butas mostof our fanners have their winterstock on the land before now, this class of beasts were somewhat Ktifif to sell. Fat cattle, of which Mr G. F. RichaidBon, Gaklands, had forwarded a very superior lot of 80 head, were &old at top prices. The demand for this class at present exceeds the supply, and is likely to do so for a month or two until turnip-fed beaats cqtop

forward. Sheep were in fair dunand. Few horses were catalogued, only a few hacks being disposed of ali moderate prices. They also sold in Mr Milne's Hall a number of town sections at prices satisfactory to the various vendors. The public school here is closed for, the present week, but for what cause I know not, unless it bo to get the mud properly scraped off the skins and clothes of tho children who are compelled to attend this " glaur hole" I think that the Road Board would perform an act of charity to the children and their parents wero they to try and devise some means to take the surface water away from the school grounds, and also provide a suitable footpath, so that tho scholars might come and go dry-footed; this is a matter of grave importance, which parents who have children attending school here ought to take _ into serious consideration, as it must be exceedingly injurious to the health of the youngsters to be compelled to bit at their desks day after day with wet, cold, benumbed feet and legs. The state of matters at present is simply disgraceful, the school being more like a training-ship anchored in a loch than what it is expected and ought to be. The teacher's nice new ' residence would also require a little squaring up lound the, front, and a footpath "mado to tho door from some ' airt ' of tho compans. We don't require to take a trip to ould Ireland or the isle of Skye *to witness a ' fracas ' between landlord and tenant, as the 'no rent' system is being tried at our very doors, for not later than to-day wo witnessed the forcible ejection of a family who, it would appear, would neither pay rent nor leave their aboder, although they had received several notices to 'quit.' Notifications proving ineffectual, more 'stringent means had to be resorted to by the landloi d. Four sturdy, daring carps-nters, with axes, saws, hammers, &c. were engaged, and brought to bear upon the unfortunate dwelling, which, in about an hour's time, was smashed into a thousand pieces, and rased to tne foundation. Hedge knives and, tomahawks wero, at times, rather close to the workmen's heads to look comfortable, still the gallant little band kept tearing on safe under cover of the landlord's musket. I am beginning to imagine that we shall rcquiro a constable stationed here before long. The .weather is still very disagreeable and wet.