HYDE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2111, 9 August 1894, Page 23

HYDE.

August 6. — The weather is again somewhat mild and it is beginning to look something like spring. The roads have been in a terrible mess, but they are getting dried up again.

Agricultural. — Several paddocks are ready for sowing, but the inclement state of the weather has prevented this work being undertaken. However it looks as if we were now going to have a little spring, and every team will be busy. Arbour Day. — Some tree-planting w r as done on Arbour Day, a good number of trees being planted in the school grounds, and the grounds of the Catholic chapel are almo.st covered with young trees, and in a few years they will be an ornament to tho place. I notice that about a dozen heaps of gravel are lying on the footpath in front of the chapel. They have been there for nearly six weeks, but our county engineer, councillors, or whoever is responsible for it, do not seem to take any steps to have them spread over the footpath, and pedestrians have to struggle over them on a dark night the best way they can. Accident.— A waggoner named Navarre met his death through the capsizing of his waggon Last week. The body was taken to Regan's Hotel, where an inquest was held. I have not heard tho result of the inquest, but I hear that deceased was not in a fit state to be in charge of a team at the time, through having had too much drink.

Railway.— Mr Duff, late of Middlemarch, who is stationmaster here, has made himself very popular with all classes through his courteous and obliging disposition, and is a welcome addition to our population. The railway camp has been shifted to Capburn, where most of the work is going on. Tho most of the cuttings arc finished to that point, or, with one or two exceptions, will be in a very short time. As there are not many bridges to ) swallow up the money between Hyde and Ryan's, that section should not take long to complete. The line from Middlemarch to Hyde has been an expensive one on account o/ the number of bridges and culverts, and some of the cuttings have been very heavy.