KELSO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2399, 22 February 1900, Page 29

KELSO.

February 14.— 1t is evident that the harvest in this district will be a late one. Ve.y few ciops as yet show much s'gu of changing colour, and it will be at least thiee weeks before harvesting is at all general. The persistently wet condition of the weather is causing much, anxiety to those farmers who hava not been so fortuna 1 j as to have finished grass seed threshing, and much of the eea4

will, it is feared, be more or less damaged. A remarkable feature of the present season has been the abnormal frequency of rain, showers •anS frosts at nights. There is an abundance of good pasture in the district for the time of ths year. Grain crops will, it is anticipated, if the harvest proves favourable, be above the average, whilst the turnip crop promises well, although in parts somewhat late. War Feeling. — The patriotic feeling of otir community, instead of growing less as the war drags itself along wearily, seems to be intensified hv the delays met with by our generals at the front. Not content with their contribution of £dO, or thereabouts, to the patriotic fund, our representatives have now taken in hand the equipment of a man and horse free of cost for the Otago contingent of^seouts now beir.g organised, and such has besn the response met with that this object is already assured. Mr John Boss, a young man born and brought up here, being the first to volunteer, his services have been accented by the district, and he has already left for Dunedin.