HOKONUI.

Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2159, 11 July 1895, Page 22

HOKONUI.

July 8. — We are having a spell of wintry weather that is both severe and protracted, and naturally we are beginning to long for a chanse. It must be remembeied, however, that there are eveu harder things to fuce than wintry weather, so "Blow, blow, thou winter wind ; Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude." Agricultural —Stock aie looking ve r y well, and it b f-aiii-fiictory to see that then* is p'onty of feed to keep them giing through the winter. Whenever the weather permits ploughing is in full swing. Newspapers are eagerly scanned and every sign of returning prosperity carefully noted. A Night in the Bush — Pig* are fairly plentiful. Last week two lads (brother-) went iuto the bush on a pig hunting expedition, and after killing some three or four pi^s they eventually manaied to get lost. Not being able to find their way home that night, they were compelled _to accept the inevitaVde. Rain having fallen duiing the day, their clothes must have bten, to say the leant of it, decidedly damp Neither of them ha 1 auy matches, therefore they were compelled to pa s the night as best they could without a fire. Next diy another brotbei and the wrier Wi nt in Search of the missii'S; Nimro's We .man ged with considerable difficulty to fn'lo.v t v '<-i> tr^il for .«ome fi\e miles ; after this We 1 it alt fmiher traces. To prevent being benitjhtod we, were forced to retiace our strpa as quickly as possible. It would seem that after several attempts they had managed to make th^ir way out of the bush, and we felt pleased to find that they had arrived home ahefid of v*. They did not seem to be any the woise for their having to remain out over night. "All's well that ends well." After tea the younger of the two tackled me at draughts, aud, much to my surprise, he managed to do what he never did before— gave me a beating.