WAIKAIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 1915, 3 August 1888, Page 17

WAIKAIA.

July 30.— We are having very keen frosts here at present, and if they continue fora few more days the ice on all the lagoons about will be sufficiently strong to permit of real skating. The threshing-mill hands did not find their work a financial success this season. On an average some of them only made 3s per day. In the face of the fact that men will refuse to do a day's work under Bs, it seems rather anomalous that they will follow a mill for a paltry 3s. It is the same with mining ; some men will go prospecting for perhaps six months and only obtain enough gold to keep life in the. body while they turn up their noses at a decent wage. '

Miscellaneous. - Although everybody here is enthusiastic over rinking their enthusiasm has not let them forget; the days of the week, and so rink seven instead of six days. a 9 is done in a wee toon not 100 miles from Waikaia. Our braßg band ia getting on well under Mr John Brown's tuition, There aro now about nine members, principally recruited from the now defunct fife and drum bund.