HOSSRURN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2503, 12 March 1902, Page 31

HOSSRURN.

' March 3. — The weather here during the past month has been excellent. The hay harvest is o\ - er, and the crops have been well secured, while now the hum of the threshing mill may be heard at work late and early. Fescue has ■ principally been garnered here, and in sp*t3 of its detractors it appears to be increasing in fa- | your every year. Surely for giound that can only be used for pastoral purposes it is the ■ most remunerative grass now grown in ihl* i colony. ! Stock Sale. — The sale of stock here on the j 2ith was not by any means an animated one. i It is generally conceded that the sale \va3 held lather early to suit the class of purchasers likely to attend, and, as one and all were bu3y o+ the hay-harvest, the attendance was le&s than on previous occasions. The next sale j which takes place here is likely to ba a larger ■ and better attended one, as then up-count T y stations will have time to forward stock, auj tunm mustering being at an end. ; Land Sale. — I hear that the Castle Rock | estate is to be sold. Now is the time for our j villagers to exert themselves and secure a com- , naonage on which to run their cows. The [ County Council forbids the running of stock 1 on the roads, the consequence being that the , families which were happy in the ownership of i theii one cow had to sell it, and have now to I do without the manifold benefits conferred by ', the possession of a cow, known only to such.