COUNTRY ITES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1932, 30 November 1888, Page 17

COUNTRY ITES.

the local Wesleyan Church netted £64 by the sale of. work, &c, i , , •

Mr £. Harper, of Strath Taieri, had Mb right arm ! saverely burni by his powder flask exploding oh the J 18th mat.- • ■ , . . . The Tuapeka Bowling Club are to send three rinks , down on St. Andrew's Day to try conclusions ,with j the Dunedin Club. : • . ' . ! Teviot miners are now preparing for their summer campaign at Campbell's and other elevated diggings ' in the diatriot.' SnowatiU lies on the hills.. .

The Tuapeka' Caledonian Society, have in some cases Increased the amount of prize money. The Handicap is now £7 instead of £5 aa hitherto, The late boisterous ■ weather has done a lot. of damage to the Teviot fruit gardens. Hipe strawy berries were being sold in Boxburgh a fortnight ago.' Dr Fleming, who has had charge of the Dunedin Hospital durlog the past year, .intends starting practice in tho. Clutha district, where ,hlB family ,«aldso „, ..,.-■.■,. / .- ; Shearera'are eald tb tie'mo're plentiful in.Sonthland fch*R,wQrij, n Xh,e tymtyfyiyp i-fuftere,d 'severely from

the spell of cold wet weather which has been experienced. ,■ . . J 'j. , i, i :.';<•)•' A little boy named^Terry, aged eight years, dropped down in a fit in his father's cowyard at Croydon (Southland) on the 20th inst,', and died 1 ' shortly afterwards. - Three leg bones of a n:oa of a combined length of oft, found by Mr T. Johnston at Big Bush, have been exhibited at Mr W. W. White's shop at Milton during the past week. . ' ' An eight-year-old Timaru girl is said to possess a collection of one, two, three, four,- five, six, and nine-leaved clovers. Each of the leaves of the latter Is perfectly formed- • ' ' '' „ „ The tail race of MrR. Bpton.at Lower Spec Gully, Mount Ida, was recently washed up during his absence in Naseby, and gold representing several months' Jabour abstracted.. ■ Mr T. Mac Gibbon, of Gore, who has been on a trip to the Home Country, was unsuccessful in his endeavour to float a compariy to erect a woollen mill on the banks of the Mataura. " ' .While getting through a fence, at Longbnsh, with an axe on his shoulder Mr William Aitken had the little finger of his right hand cut off and the next one bruised, through the axe slipping/ ■ ! • t It is reported that owing to the wet season' the seed potatoes at Tuapeka have rotted in the ground, and in consequence . several of the formers have been putting in a fresh crop. . > <• '' I - ' A German hawker had his van upset in the New' river, at, Mossburn, on the. 14th last., and most of the goods either lost or damaged by water. The 1 had just started, and will consequently feel his loss severely. •' ' ' • ■ ' ' •;; '" After opening up a drain at Gore Peter M'Kenzle, surfaceman, developed aymptomeof blood-poisoning. • He had to bo removed to the Invercargill Hospital*' where it ia thought one of his feet will' have- to be removed. ■ • • ' ■ The contractors for the construction of baths at Moeraki are meeting with more difficulties than < they anticipated. As a consequence the baths will not be ready to be opened on the date specified (St; Andrew's Iky). ' ■ •< Among the horses lost by Mr Keith at Winton was' a' valuable two-year-old filly which took first prize at the last Inveroargill ' show. It is mentioned as a peculiar coincidence that all the five horses losthave died on a Tuesday. > - ' * Ventilating the missing Bheep question In the Waitahuna district seems ■ to have effected the purpose desired. According to the Tuapeka TimesjmisBing- sheep are now readily traced and quickly returned to the owner. ' • , Our Wanaka correspondent mentions a novel method of fighting the rabbit peab. A' mixture of sulphur, saltpetre, and phosphorus in a matchbor is tied to a rabbit's tail nnd 1 ignited, and the rabbit is turned into a burrow. ' ' ' ■ At Gore a horse suffering from fistulas in the top of his shoulder had one the siw of a teacup and two smaller ones removed by Mr Brewer the other; day. The incision made was lOinlong and Sindeep.i The' horse is doing fairly well. ■ i Feed in the Upper Waitaki district is more plenti-' ful ■ than was , expected, and sheep that came, pub of the great snow storm in an emaciated condition have picked up wonderfully, and have now little about, them indicative of the terrible ordeal they passed through. ■ ; As the result of improved prices and an Increase in tht number of suppliers the Stony Creek Dairy Factory (Southland) is able to pay 3jd per gallq'n for milk this season. Gore suppliers threaten tojsend their milk to Stony Creek unless the local factory 1 follows suite. ' ] During his recent visit to the Waknfclpu- district Bishop Moran administered the sacrament of confirmation to 11 candidates— four boys and seven girls — and requested the boys confirmed to pledge them- ' selves to abstain from drink and- the useof tobacco until they attained the age of 21, 'also to never join any secret society during their lives. :■ ' } • AH the reporters who visited tho Oamaru show Bpeakin complimentary terms of Mr John Church, the society's secretary, to' whose assiduity the success of the Oamaru society is mainly atttlbntable. • The North' Otago Times says that' there i 8" no show in the South Island where the secretary^ work is better 4 syßtdraatised, or where everything runs more smoothly than at Oamaru.