COUNTRY ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2008, 18 August 1892, Page 21

COUNTRY ITEMS.

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Mr John Stewart, of Dunrobin, recently cut down some blue gums which were 1G years old. They reached Oi)ft in height, and measured 4ft (iin in ciicumference.

The Lyttelton Times says :— "Mr J. Knight', of High street, who purcha-icd the heaviest of Mr George Rutherford's lamb 3at the Addington market on Wednesday last, states that when killed and dressed the lamb weigher! 511b." It is said that the assemblage at Tapanui on tho 10th, at the Birchwood hounds meet, was the largest ever seen at a hunt meeting in Uta^oor Southland. Fully COO people witnessed the spoit and about 50 equestrians followed the hounds. The Taieri Advocate is responsible for the statement that in Duuedin recently a man was seen stencilling boxes. " Best factory-made : Ohau Factory ! '' There is no Ohau Factory, nor is there a penalty for misrepresenting dairy produce though the harm done to the legitimate producers by tin's c ort of thing is ecormous-. The Mataura Ensign states that flax leaves have been found near the banks of the Taieri River at a distance of 25ft below the Mirface of the ground. The leaves were in a fair state of pr«&erv.ition, aud undoubtedly grew whore they were found, but had been covered over with silt at every Hood until what was formerly the surface is now nearly £sft underground. The Peninsula Naval Artillery mustered for church parade on Sunday morning at the corner of Cargill and Anderson's Pay roads, when there was only a moderate attendance. Heade.l by the Ordnance Band (who mulcted 31 strong under Bandmaster Coombs) they inarched to St. Andrew's Church, Walker street, for divine service, the Jlcv. Rutherford W.vddell being the oiiieiating minister.

A man named Robert Ludwell, who was a shepherd at Lynwood and was 50 years of age, w:.s drowned in the Mararoa liver, at the fo:d in r.r tbe Key Holt-1, on the afternoon of the 9 r h. The s ; ght of Lir, riderless hor-i: led to search being made, and the body was recovered quarter of a mile down the river.

We have been requeited to mention that there is a, Dunedin agent for Hall's Girnt Hygienic Discovery, the advertisement in connection with which annears in page 14. Mr Townscnd, 11 Princes Street, io agent for the South Island.