BALD HILL FLAT.
' Mat 13.— The potato crop is now all or nearly all in hags or in pits, so that ■' so far< as that is concerned the frost may come when it likes, and, that may be any evening, for there has been none so far. , Mining. — The White's Reef Company have again retorted! ' but the yield of gold has not, to' far as I can learn, been publicly made, known. The .company will soon be suspending operations for the winter— dismissing all the hands except a few to keep the mine in good repair. Information about other mining claims is very' meagre; ' There seems a briskness in mining matters a few toiles up the Manutierikia',' as several nead and" tail races were applied for at the last sitting of the Warden's Gourt, in addition to a number of miners' , rights. , I notice several applications for co»l mining licenses which shows' that that' occupation is also looking'up 1 . -*. -' ' ■ , " •■ ' " : ' Agricultural.— The crops grown on the flat are nob selling off so rapidly v could be wished, bub there 'is no hurry for. that yet. Most of it- is lot chaff, as that fetches the best prices for the farmer* here. ,
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Otago Witness, Issue 956, 16 May 1889, Page 16
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200BALD HILL FLAT. Otago Witness, Issue 956, 16 May 1889, Page 16
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