LAWRENCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 30

LAWRENCE.

April 12. — Judging from the cold and tempestuous weather we are haying at present, it is Clearly evident that the winter is near at hand.

The flowers are dying away and the leaves falling from the tices, iind all Nature wears a gloomy and dibiual appearance. Mining.— The recent heavy rains have caused mining work to start agairj, and the claims are -working constantly, and will in every probability continue to do so. The long dry season has been somewhat trying to the milling community, rendering their lot a hard one indeed. TniPPJAH.— This year the rabbi ling season i 3 a very busy an \ profitable one. All over the district people are engaged in trapping rabbits, aud some thousands arrive in the township daily, and aie picked by the local agents and forwarded to Dunedin by rail. Poor bunny's trials and daDgers must in consequence be very numeiout. AiUUSCMKNT.s —A concert under the auspices of tho local tiie brigade is to take place at the end of the piebuut month. The brigade are sparing neither time, labour, nor expense to make the affair a success, and they will undoubtedly receive a liberal response from the public, as they richly deaervo it.