COUNTRY ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1956, 20 August 1891, Page 19

COUNTRY ITEMS.

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The Southern Standard has followed the example , set by the Taierl Advocate and reduced to a 1 penny. , The Waitahuna District School was examined on the 14th inst by Messrs Petrie and Taylor with good results. A seed-growing and seed company, baaed on cooperative prinoipleß, with a capital of £10,000, is ' being formed in Christcburch. . ' The Free Press says that it has been definitely i settled that Mr W. M'Hutchison takes charge of the ■ Balolutha post office on September 1. and Mr J. A. \ Algie goes to Kaitangata and Mr J. Owens to Biver- ' A* deputation from the Hurunul Babbit Board is in ' Wellington with the object of urging on the Government the neoeisity of erecting a second rabbit fence to further cheok ;tbe invasion by. rabbits of the land to the south of the existing line. A movement is on foot in the Mount Ida district to obtain funds to ereot a suitable monument in 1 commemoration of the death of the three young men who lost their lives In. the Kyeburn ranges 1 through an avalanche of snow, when in search of tbe 1 younger boy Meikle. i ' The Oamaru Mail mentions as showlng.the low- ■ ness of the Waitaki at presant that the other day ! Miss Paterson and her brother crossed on horseback ' from OUrkeiville to Duntroon and back again. This ■is, perhaps, the first instance on record of the ■Waitaki being forded in that neighbourhood by a ! The Pine Company, met with a severe loss at .Stewart's Island |ast,week.. A .portion of tbe jetty gave way, precipitating some 30,000 ft of timber into !the sea. Fortunately. there was a strong breeze blowing from the eastward, whioh caused, tome of ithe .floating timber to come. ashore, when all the mill •hands turned out to save as much as they could-; I. 'should think about 10,000ft.- Southland Hews oorireipondent,, „< - „ , The Lawrence Diatriot High School was examined last week by Inspectors Petrie and Tayldr. The percentage of passes, was 97, in class subjects^ the percentage wai 67, and 95 marks were received for additional subjects. .The report says :—". The infant classes read in fair style,' and very readily ; they are-well advanced In drawing and writing, and fairiy i grounded in tables and counting. The order, attention, and manners of the. 'children were exoellent throughout the classes.".