TUTURAU.

Otago Witness, Issue 2252, 29 April 1897, Page 25

TUTURAU.

April 26 —Of late the weather has been rather rbangeable. but as yet we have had no severe frosts. The mill" are now going the rounds of the district-. There will be a good deal of damaged grain 'iTiis season, but those who were fortunate enough to ge* it in in eood order will be able to obtain a satisfactory price for it.

FiaE - On Wednesday morning, the 14tli inst., a barn belonging to TVIr J Oughton was burned. The origin of the fire i«s unknown, but it is thought to have been caused by matches dropped by some mill men who were sleeping in the barn a night or two previously At the time of the fire the barn contained a pair of fanners and a few other thine?. Fortu atelv, Mr O -ghton had not begun to store hte grain, which was just threshed, in the building. The insurance on the building was £30.

Freezing.— The Mataura works are now kept very busy. Rabbits an? beinc •> nt in in l<»vge numbers. On Thursday la*r 20 000 were received at tbe works The oompanv is now putting throueh lambs at the rats of 700 per dnv, and this number will probably be maintained for several week=

ArcmENT.— A lad named Thop. Denne met with a painful accident at the Mataura paper mills lait Monday afternoon While tending the papercutting machine he sot hi= hand r.auehr between two Bteel rollers, which stripp o^ the flesh off, laying ba>-e tbe sinews, and also erushine the hand rather badly. On account of the extent of iniured surface skin grafting will have to be resorted to shortly

Meeting.— On Friday evening a meeting of milk suppliers was held in the schoolhonae Mr J. Sawers wa<? present to explain the manner in whioh a dairy factory linkable for the district could be started, and a committee waR formed to endeavour to make arrangements for doing co.