STRATH-TAIERI

Otago Witness, Issue 1764, 12 September 1885, Page 13

STRATH-TAIERI

September 5. — Weather. — 'The equinoctial gales have set in early, and they are blowing with groat strength and fury. This place seems t > be n veritable "wind-swept I'ion,"' at this titn-» of the year, or indeed at any other time. 1 f i hese gales did not bring with them bitterly cold showers they would be more tolerable.

AiitncuLTUßAi,.— Ploughing U now drawing to completion, and sowing will be the next item on the agricultural programme. Oiiijkch Contribution's. — Your Hyde correspondent in his correction, in last week's Witness, of his report in a previous issue animadverts rather severely ou the people of this dibirict, in the matter of the minister's horse. No sane person who had once seen the animal referred to, would think of dubbing him a Bucephalus, but would immediately hail him as Kozinante. or else the steed of Hudibras. Yet I do not think your Hyde correspondent is justified in talking about want of funds, &c, seeing tha'u his district, which shares equally the benefit of Mr Morrison's service with this, does not contribute to the church extension fund, thus getting their Gospel gratis. And yet your Hyde correspondent talks about the need of " giving the Gospel wings," thus adding, as it were, insult to injury. Therefore, let the Hyde people dip their hands into their own pockets and provide their share of the plums before they auimadvert on us.