UNKNOW.

Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 34

UNKNOW.

July 30.— -We are still favoured with ideal winter weather, although it is always threatening storms. Our weather prophets predict a big burst in the near future. Ploughing is tho order of the day, the late spell of frost being accountable for less ground blackened than is generally the case this time of the yeai. -A Railway Dispute. — I have it on reliable authority that there is a little war of our own in the vicinity, the opposing parties being Scott's Gap and Woodlaw, the bone of contention being a railway siding. It appears that Woodlaw proposed "Hundred " Line siding." Being in such close proximity, the Government have declined to have anything to do with, it unless the settlers contribute half the expense — that is, £300; and just now the Gap people are canvassing to see if they can raise the amount (an almost forlorn hope, I think). Failing this, some of them threaten they will petition Parliament to have Woodlaw siding re- " mo-red. With this threat hanging over them, the Woodlaw boys^are dabbing out with the rest. Now, looking at tho matter from an outsider's point of view, I think it ra-ther severe on both parties. Why should the people bo asked to contribute at all? Without doubt, it is a siding that would pay handsomely.

Should have been Acknowledged. — I would give tha editor of the Western Star, Riverton, a -word of advice, and that is, if he wants a Wairio correspondent for his paj)er, do as the Otapro Witness has done — get one of his own, for I most emphatically object to anything I write for this p»per baing copied out and published in another paper and signed " A Correspondent," as was done with the account of our late social.