ISLA BANK

Otago Witness, Issue 2309, 2 June 1898, Page 25

ISLA BANK

'May '28. — Plots of crop in this *cv (.«»*<=.<■<._ rising countrj' 'in fctook "will "be -muck redu*:efl in ralue through being so long exposed to the ■wm':.^-:r, which gives no -promise of dealing up -so far. ilie mill 3 .ans using every diy '"hoirr, late and early, for threshing. A large quantity of grain has been driven ito.the station, but the by-ioads are very unpleasant. Tihere hava been some good returns of grain per acre, 'but complaints .are heaid that all are not coming up to the average of former years. There have bf-en some frosty mornings, but the grass and late-sows turnrp3 -are doing well. Stock of all kinds, where properly cared for, -are doing well. JBall.— The ball held last week to jaise funds to improve the school groands was a success, £7 10b being realised, while the sum of lOs was -added by a gentleman in -the 'district who was not -^present. The ladies 'are to ! be -commended for the manner in -whirih they looked after the refreshments. The affair broke up ut daylight after a ,pl»asant night's amuhement. The music waß supplied by Miss M'llwii.li (piano) and Messrs Duke, "Arthur, an<? Judge, wTiiie'Mr A. 'Henderson made an efficient M.C. Headquaktees. — The County Council business Is done at Otautau now, but "we have yet to learn ; if the ratepayers' money will be spent more judi i ciou sly than hitherto. ' The River.- At I\iii-fax Bridge the channel las straightened and the river is miming in the direct channel — not, as has been the case for anaxy years, undermining the bearers en ihe one side at one time and on the other At aDothertime, travellers passing at times at "the risk of all they ■were worth. IST ow -that the channel is right some -are moving for a railway up the Waimatuku from Wright's Bush. It has been -agitated for by . ■a few iojc 20 years, and it "may b -. pther '20 years* "before it becdmes a reality, except something turns up in the district to give it a prospect of ,paying interest on the money to "be spent.