POMAHAKA DOWNS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2320, 18 August 1898, Page 25

POMAHAKA DOWNS.

j -Augufat 15. — After the snow storm mentioned I in. my last, we have had really fine weather, and : ploughing is going ahead. Three ancl four fur- ! row ploughs soon make the ground look black. I Some say a very large amount of ground in the South Island will be put under crop this year, and so we had better not calculate on getting I more than lOd or Is a bushel for oats next sea- [ I son. The roads are a little dried up now, but : when half dry they become very sticky. One ! hill at the back of Mr Rowe's plantation 13 I 'especially heavy, and has been termed the i " glue pot." It is a regular "' Slough of Dcs- f I pond," for if one gets stuck there, he has to ' wait till some one else comes to pull him out. Mr Ro-ive deserves the gratitude of many of us, for he has given a helping hand on several occasions. I Rabbits. — The inspector has been sending round little slips of blue paper telling us to cle- ' stroy rabbits. Being a law-abiding individual, ! I have made up a little mixture for these rabbits in the shape of phosphorised oats, ancl laid out some. But I can see the grand effect of the tiapping in the summer time. So far I have only come across five dead rabbits. Marriage. — I understand that Mr James '. "Falkner, lately a settler on this estate, is to be ' married to Miss Lizzie Barnett on Tuesday, 23rd inst., in the Waipahi Church 1 ' Jottings. — Miss Mackay returns to her duties ' ' at the school to-day. 1 hear one of our bona ( fide settlers will soon take unto himself a wife, i ' That will be an occasion for a public holiday ! : I should think. Mr William Taylor was ' . yesterday ordained an elder in the Waipam i : Church. Mr Rhodes has got the most of the timber for the new bridge over the Waipahi on , '. the spot, and is waiting for favourable weather : to make a start. A dairy factory is being ; ■ spoken about, as so many of the bachelors are ! < getting cows. j