KELSO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2200, 30 April 1896, Page 25

KELSO.

April 27. -Nothing of general interest has occurred in -our little township of late With everyone jogging along p'acidly at theii allotted work, the weather behaving splendidly, and with no new phase or apparent? development in regard, to our prevailing, and as ie often enough alleged pernicious system -of no-license, plus tbe uncompromising attitude of the public ioward-t, and its intolerance of, any further information regarding the habits, Ac, of that übiquitous insect the hot fly, it becomes somewhat of a task indeed to find anything to write about whatever.

Harvest.— The harvest of 1896 is now with us practically a thing of the past. Over half a dozem threshing machines have been busy during the past five weeks or thereabouts amongst the oat crop, and the grain has been for the greater part of that time pouring into the railway station from all directions, but little short of an average of 1000 bags being trucked daily during th,e present month. In regard to the average yield per acre for the district it may be xaid to have been none too satisfactory. Certainly in but few inbtances has ths grain threshel out iv accordance with what the appearance of the crop would have led one to expect some time before cutting.

Our Roads. —Seldom have, our roads bean in. such pei feet order as has been the case during the present grain-carting season. The advantages of* such portions of the roads as have been graded from time to-time by the farmers on the Clutha side of the district have been to apparent that the county, this year undertook the work on its own behalf, with the result that quite an extensive amount of grading has been done, and first-cUss culverts put in wherever required, which will tend to/still further iinpiove the roads in that locality. Whilst writing on this subject a word or two on a work much, arid even urgently, needed may not be out of place. I refer to the want of a new and more convenient bridge across the Pomahaka. ') he present bridge ia old and rotten and unfit for almost any sort of traffic, and ac a means of communication has never suited the township-or any part of the district particularly well; so that the erection o£-a new bridee with a better locution must some time or other in the near future' become an absolute necessity. This has been- agitated for mote or lesa during the last five or six yean?, and the apathy displayed by the Clutha and Tuapeka. county councils towards so neco-eary a work may be considered quite inexcusable Mr J. B Logau, of Greenvale, some tima ago wrote to the Clutha County Council offering to subscribe £W0 towards the cost of erecting' a brfdsre ; yet. so far as lam aware, ao effort Has

been made to secure the advantage entailed by so liberal an offer. , Miscellaneous —The Eev. Mr Kyd lectures in aid ot the Brunner relief fund to-morrow nUb.t in Dunnet'a Hall; subject, "Dr Kyd, of Aberdeen " A concert, in which. I understand, most of our loctil amateurs will take part, is announced to come off in the Glcnkenich :-choolroom the following evening ; proceeds in aid of some 'object in connection with the school work.