OTARAIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2215, 13 August 1896, Page 26

OTARAIA.

Auouvr 10.— The receDt severe frosts we have experienced have been re.-ponsible for several accidents in this loc-ility. Out, a rather serious affair, happeued Übt Thursday to Urwin Lindley, second soaof Mi George Lindley. Thelad was riding to FukiTAu, and just before he reached the township his hnrse slipped on the hard frost and fell ou young L'ndley's leg. with the result that it was broken near the aukle. Willing hands sooq carried the lai to Mr Gordon's Pukerau Hotel, where every attention was piid to him until the arrival of Dr George Cop'ahd, from Gore, who soon set the injured limb. He was punt to the Invercargill Hospital by tho early train next morning Fortunately the break is a clean one, and it wi'l not be loog, it ia to be hoped, uutil Urwin will be in our midst again.— On the same day Mr Thomas Bowmar, an uncle of Urwia Lindley's, was taking a load of chaff to fill the sheep bjxes In" taking a steep cutting on the.bank of the Waipahi River the hor.-se3 could not keep.their feet on the frosty grouud, and the wheels skidded, with tlie result that the horses,, dr*'', and Mr Bowmw, who was on top of the load, were capsized clean over the embankment, and went within a couple of feat of a deep po'jl in the river. Had they f*lleu ia the river, there is no doubt but that I should hare hid a serious ace'dent to chronicle. As it was, beyond a few snrill breakages nothing serioas happened. Mr Bowmir's experience was anything but apleasant one, as it wa- snowing hard at the time. AGRiGUi/ruitAL — The winter which we have passed throagh has beeu a very mild one. Stock for this time of year are looUiDg very well. It is fortunate wo have had a good winter, a3 owing to the cold, wet summer wa hid the tuinip crop wa? ojly a very ordinary one, and had this winter bean anything like thifc of last year it wouli have gone veiy hard with stock. * A Cuiuovs Fatality.- Messrs Quertier Bros, lost a valuable draught horse ia a very simple manner la'ely. It was scratching its neck daring the night with one of its hind feet when the heel of ihe shoe caught in the neck rope and held it as firm a3 a vyce. The unfortuuate brute was found in this position in the morning, with its head and' neck swollen to an enormous extent, and despite everything that was done to save its lif-j it died two days afterwards.

Elkctoral — I atu informd that thia district and Pukerau lwe besn tacked on *o the (Jlutha electorate, severing us from the sl.it.uiri electoral district I think the settlers would have bsen better pleased had they been left as they were, as I am sura they wouli have liked to have bad a say in the voting to decide between those two great war. iorc Messrs M'Nab and Richardson.