MISCELLANEOUS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1682, 16 February 1884, Page 14

MISCELLANEOUS.

Under the heading " Not Discouraged " the Southland Times says :— lt was in the Opawa, we believe, that Mr J. W. Hamilton, of Strafcharran, sent home several casks of butter. The financial result of the shipment was by no means satisfactory, but the shipper attributed the low price obtained to the deterioration in quality through the butter having been conveyed as ordinary cargo. Mr Hamilton has decided to try the market with another lot, about half a ton, but on this occasion the firkins have been placed in the freezing chamber of the Canterbury. Tho butter will go straight to Glasgow, and we trust the sender's enterprise may meet with the reward that it deserves.

From a gentleman who recently rode through the greater portion of the Hakateramea Valley we (Oamaru Times) learn that the crops this year rank with the finest that have ever been grown there. .Amongst .others, Mr J. Turnbull's wheat is described as magnificent/ Very few have commenced harvesting operations, but the majority of the crops will be ready for the reaper this week. A large amount of grass seed has been already threshed in the district.

In a letter from London to Mr G. G-. Stead, of Christchurch, Mr Cunningham says ; "Kindly thank Mr Duncan Cameron, of Olunes, for the sheep ha sent to me per s.s. Doric. I had about half of it cooked and Berved at the Langh'am Hotel (where I am now staying), and the quality of the mutton was equal to anything that I have tasted at the Langham. It was so good that the cook asked me to give him a quarter of the sheep, which I did. His report was very satisfactory. The general opinion was that it was quite equal to the mutton which they usually pay lOdper lb for by the carcass."