RURAL RAMBLES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 10 August 1888, Page 8

RURAL RAMBLES.

ROUND ANDERSONS BIT.

The heavy rainfall during the latter part of the week somewhat operated against the chance of a stroll round on Saturday, but as the morning of that day broke a little more propitiously, my steps were directed to this well-known locality, round which are circled many interesting incidents connected both with the past and the present. Tradition records tnat the name Anderson's Bay was bestowed on the sheet of water which encroaches on the land in connection with the iwme of a settler of that ilk, who arrived in the district wifh a party of friends previons to the adveut of the first immigrants, and ieho now resides at Tapanui. To all appearance his name will continue in perpetuity,

and deservedly so,, as no class of individuals more ■really deserve their name held in remembrance than that hardy lot who first awoke the echoes mid the silence of the Ofcakau district. And whilst the particular names within the district are the subject of notation it may be just as well to dispose of another old familiar name, which is, however, doomed to pa3s into damefcude — namely,