HAMILTON SOUTH.

Otago Witness, Issue 2170, 26 September 1895, Page 23

HAMILTON SOUTH.

Skptembkr 23 —For thn past fortnight we have had fine weather, with the exception of a good blow up occasionally. Thin h«a dried the ground considerably, but there is not much growth yet, and everything is very bnckward on both the farm and garden. Mining. Ever) one in this line is very busy just now, and all are taking advantage of thn present good supply of water. Prospects are «vidently improving in thi» part. A number of applications are set uown for hearing next Monday, which in the fii - 3t sitting of the Warden's Court since the courthouse lus been repaired. Advanck, Hamilton '.—Another miner has taken up his quarters hero, and being a boy of the right kidney, it i» quite probable be has come t) stty. May his futuro be a prosperous one ! Public Mkkting. -A public meeting was summoned for Saturday, 21st in&t., to discuos the way in which the recently-surveyed land waa being dealt with. Some are dissatisfied with Ihe binvey, others with the high rtntal, some with both, Mid s iina are rtissatirtfied wnh they know not what I believe that if the hind was turveyed aud clarified by sou.c supi'intitur.-tl power, tli-i-satiaf-iction uoultt still be th-; ordei of the d»y. The preHinin-iiy discussion was stirtedby "the Uo''tor" and auother, who tieAted Uios- 1 who bad come in good timo to a duet. " The Doctor," having come for that purpose alone, was in good form, and the couple concluded by calling one another neither scholar* nor gentlemen Tho meeting was then formally opened by Mr M Alpine being voted to the chair, and the bus»ine?B wus proceeded with in a more rational manner. A " wideawake hat" proposed that some of the unocouuied bluffs of rocks be applied for as an atheuiunni endowment— a very novel idea indeed. After a vote of thanks to the chair the company dispersed, each well satisfied with the part he had takeu. and Ihinkiug to himself that the meeting would bo a memorable on« iv tho annals ot Hamilton. Floods. — During the pa=>t month the plain has piesonted a scene for an artist, it being stieaked and dottei the whole length and breadth with watei from thesuowy heights around, though us it has come gi actually, it has not done much damage to the low-lying farms ; but it has proved that bridges are necessary over a laige number of the snow-fed creeks, where a large body of water always cute away the fords, causiug danger to botb. man and bea*t.