COUNTRY ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 953, 25 April 1889, Page 17

COUNTRY ITEMS.

Kskaa are not included among the native' birds which are protected during the open season. Mr Samuel M'fiae, of Glenkenlch, had his left arm dislocated last week through' being jerked from his loaded dray by the team bolting. Ducks are said to be very plentiful in the Lurosden district. AH along the.Oreti, from Lumsden to Mossburn; on the Five Bivers side, they are everywhere in crowds. At Ngaparaon Monday one of Mr Treahy's sons had his hand riddled by a bullet through the accidental dißchar'ge of a pistol with > which no ■ wa|s , Plying. 1 The wyndham Dairy 1 Factory Company have made a call of 2s 6d per share, making in all 12s 6d ' called up. 'AboutSQ shareholders protest against the call being made. 1 About 1400 acres of oats, and from 200 to 300 acrai' of wheat, were grown at the Five 'Bivers estatp, southland, this season, and nearly the whore'of the crop was stacked In grand condition. | In the Mijburn, district the;yield of grain is in almost every oase good", Between, 50 and 60 bushejs of wheat per acre is' a very/, satisfactory crop, arjd' tnii seemß to be a' very Common return in, the district. , - , A. number of Lums'den farmers have placed their oats in'the market at 'the satisfactory figure of 2s 2d-, R nd 2s 3d' per bushel, "on trucks. The yields'ate everywhere favourably spoken of, "and the grain as iQgood order. ' , ' A«onof Mr Joseph M'Vey, Wyndham, had his a >™-v,ery much 1 lacerated by being caught by the' £°J&Q? a chaffKsutting 'machine Fortunately His Brother Was-pregent.'and threw the strap.bff in time • more serious results. ' ' '' ', • ' t^°?? of the farmers who hav^got the' ■ Wfi !u ?S7 er begun 'to cart lime. The wirersai tbßtimpny'iß'.jiha^^t indre|Be>,tihe yle.Jd,'

,makep $ner,,grajnk makea f the .ground t eap^ ,worked t and the'harv'eßt' earlier. ' ' *-.»••.<- it'-*' k Mr^rant. of Ojbiake, had ,103 bags of ,«*«»few'' atrbyed hyjfl,r,e;6&;tlie j ,l3|bh irisfc „ ?h'e r Insur^iioe policy had, expired 5 6ri, the 6th.a^ / haa,npt bega renewed. A machine iiand was Known to have fipilfTa 1 ' box of matches among the Btrawi'.j . "".'. , „'.' The pama'rt( ph^ritable 1 , (fljid ?o»TP nave „ not for fu11y, 3,2 rnpnths, 'and .yet ?;ttettippjto..hplda meeting 'th'e.b'tKer.day,' to lent Society on charitable aid watfafallure.pnly four a|;t^djngouitjbf 17 members, whilff five 1 are necessary'for,a quorum. . ' . ,' 1 " ,' A five-stalled Btable,,'contalning a, buggy, harness, chaffeufcfcer, aeed-sower, oats, ' arid' sundry 'articles;' belonging to Alexander. ,M',Gregor, ; of Wetid'onslde', was^estroyedbyjlfire 6n,thelSth inst. The 'stable, wasinsured for £7p,,andTthe contents 'for 1 £38. The' AtXijakers a subacriptlbri'llst.^aS' got^up, far' Mr ' James Tr,ueßdale', t wn6sei6ac)a^ria < ccidentally'flt.ed'. few of the farmers Who wire jBPOKen tpoji tne subject at' ,'pnce. promised, grain,' chaff . and cash. J1 J Ohe ' farmer (Mr W. Leaak) gave 25 bushels of oats, ■• " On the farm 'of 'Mr J.;O/^atwli',;M^aura/on' Friday^ast, a stack o'f,threßned' hay 'aifcuafced ln l ''tfae^ middle of wheat and. pat stacks '.was burfat.'totHe' ground,' while 'the latter;^ere'nofc 'injared',.th'ougH f Sneofothem.wiw^nlj'five'y^rds off. .PorllMi© no wind w^B ( blpwlng,at'tKe time. Cause : obildren' playing with matches, ' ' ... , "r ' In.npticwg.the purcbase of a purebred shortfibW 1 bull by Mr Mprgan Hayes 1 , "the' tyes'tem'Sto^y's't^ "It is a, great mtythat more attention; is 'not paid to the breeding of cattle in this district'; 1 ; most, of Bkf, farmers seem, (juice careless as to the class /of .^e ' they use, arjdas a consequence it is now the excep1 tion' to see a really gdod steer." , „ . , The,, late 'proceedings in the Hiverton Warden's Court, ;,Wp^g Jack v.'Bell^areslldtpbaveeng'end'erM! a Bqmewh.at bitfer feeling. Detw'een a"TOrtlou"of.tne Buropean population' and the. Chinese at'; Boundj Hill. , TheWestemmai i lßsldtHatthe Obinamebi' haye again waghed away a portion, of, the flumirig! erec^d by Bell's' party in the. disputed race. At a'meeting of the'Gbre -Farmers'- Club Held on ', Saturday evening Mr M'Queen made the 1 rather ; stjartling, assertion that phosphorus poisoning' was i the ,W/Or«t thing that, was ever introduced into New Zealand, 1 was the good of waiting untjl the winter ?,They ought, to'.trAp^and^kill the 'rabbits, and save the fepdi ' Poisoning 'had "destroyed th^' native game. ' ' ' „,'.,. We (Mataura Bnsign) have conversed with a well-, to-do ffian who some years ago J transplanted himself from South Australia to^ew Zealand.', |Je said that 1 when he reached 'the Bluff on, his trip of 'inspection he, w^ .nplj dismayed by ,^he" asMc't of the country. He took a wa^kand Jfound several little streams. ' He , tried, ,the wate,'r ahd.found it'freah", and at once said V ," t Ttiis'is tbe.coimtrj/ foif ine'an^iny ianiily." More recently we travelled iq a railway carriage with a 1 party of Austjralian^xcurßionis'ts. They were greatly ejirqek wit^ the number of bridges aa'd we t6ok occasion to remark : ',' That's how we owe so much money here, we have so many streams to bridge." ' " By Jove," they replied," " we'd like to' owe a little more f,or that purpose," .