RIVERSDALE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1935, 26 March 1891, Page 17

RIVERSDALE.

Mabch 23.— 1n the first week of this month we had fairly good harvest weather, and many acres ef crop fell before the reapers and binders. The week following we had a succession of strong winds approaohicg to gales, whioh broke down many standing crops and threshed out not a few bushels per sore. It will bs nearly a month yet before the bulk of the crops are In stack, although last week saw several threshing mills make a start Very boisterous, cold, wet weather set in on Thursday, and there is no appearance yet of it abating. There bat not been sufficient grain put through to form anything like an accurate estimate of the yield or duality generally. However unfortunate it be, it is hardly probable that the estimates made two months ago, when the oropt were looking really splendid, will be borne out by the results, Kakanui Bblibv Fund.— A public meeting was recently held to consider the advisability of getting up an entertainment ia aid of this fund. The idea met with the warmest support, a goodly number of the local favourites volunteering their services. That a good entertainment will be produoed on the 26th goes without saying, and doubtless the public will roll up in large numbers for the twofold purpose of enjoying themselves and swelling the proceeds for this laudable object. Accident. - On Wednesday last the youngest child of our townsman Mr Andrew .Wallace, a boy of five years of age, while playing about outside, fell on a short riding stlok, the bead entering his mouth and inflloting a large and ugly wound, enuring the little fellow excruciating pain Fortunately the mother, not departed, and she at once had the patient oared for and taken to Gore for skilled treatment.