ALBURY (S.C.)

Otago Witness, Issue 2318, 4 August 1898, Page 26

ALBURY (S.C.)

I Ji'LV 23 — Alt •>: neveval weeks, during wind j fill f.um vo'k uvs proceeded with without 111 J teviupt on, the weather being open and favour I able, we tue i.ow suflcring a iel.ip.-e, and an I experience u<r .sevcie frosts and occasionally gCrumo winter weather. Stock .110, however woalhonng the winter through wonderful!} well, notwithstai ding the fact that feed of ever; l.md is scarce, und where there are turnips tlicj aie holding out astonishingly, and arc piovim: far and away more valuable propcity than til! boat of judges calculated, as is shown by tin fact of crops which were sold at £3 per acre, bj shrewd judges, too, in prelcrence to feeding sheep at current lates — ?.d pei week for hoggets and iHd for toppmg-oft are returning the forlu nate purchasers big interest — carrying 400 an< : even as high as 510 sheep to the acre per week. KooTS v. Wheat.— The sincerity of a 'aigc slicepf aimer's lcmarks weie very much doubted by Ins many hearers 111 a railway carriage the oilier day, when he observed that he would lather have had his wheat fail than his turnips, notwithstanding tho fact that he thicshcd 27 bushels per acre. And yet well he might, it his acres of turmp9 vere canying 500 or 000 sheep, to say nothing of the one crop feitilising and the other robbing the land. Tub M'Kenzie Casualty.— l greatly regiet not being able to advise favouiably on the 1 pro^re^s toward? recovery being made by the unlortunate victim of the .snow accident recently icported. The Litest news about young Grnmer 13 that he is having a veiy seveie time of it, and, so far, has not recoveied much from the very lo,v btate into which he dank ere reaching the hospital. Indeed, it 15 still open to doubt whether the injuied hmb w<A , not rcquive to be amputated. His sufferings are &uch that narcotics have to be largely lesoited to, so if the poor follow does pu'l through it will be a long while cie he is lit to leave the hospital. — I have been usable lo ascertain whether our old friend the notorious I boar-slayer, Archie M'Phce, 10 pulling through or not. Ills many mends, and they are legion, I would be pleased to hear of Ins wellbemg, but I unfortunately poor Archie is at last, 1 fe.xi, 'reaping his harvest of wild oits. This has been a trying joar, and several oi the old hands iiave crossed tho bar. Early m the year '' old Coulson " succumbed to an attack of droyty, and lato; on HcuTy Davis and Joseph ' Jackson weic inmates of (he hospital.