KAIKOURA (MARLBOROUGR).

Otago Witness, Issue 2525, 6 August 1902, Page 33

KAIKOURA (MARLBOROUGR).

July 26. — T'hU week was beautiful until this rrorning, wlTLcii clouded over, and a sudden southerly storm came up, but has blown over, and the night is starry but very keen, and the uplands are freshly sheeted with snow. A Luckless Voyage After a Cachalot.— Our unlucky whaler 3 ran their boat aboard a large fish the other day, got her sadiy stove, and lost their whale again. Luckily, they landed and repaired their boat (the pick-up boat was handy) and are again on the look-out.

A Slough of Despond. — County councillors, while visiting the Conway, were humorously informed by a ratepayer that the track over Kai's Hill sadly needed attention. " Bless- you, boy 6, when a fellow comes to one of those slips, he is obliged to dismount and take off saddle and bridle in hopes of saving something in the event of the worst happening to bis horee, while the animal struggles to find the road. Those holes in the track are terrible. Did a dehorned cattle beast .fall into one of them he would be out of sight, but had he his horns with him his. whereabouts might be discovered."

A Source of Discontent.— It has become county law that the town riding shall be taxed \d in the pound extra to maintain the- street lnrnps, of which we are to have some half dozen more. Town residents murmur, and suggest forming themselves into a borough, saying that the £100 a year from the four publichou&es will sprve well to straighten up their streets. But are not country ratepayers, who practically keep the publicans, entitled to their ra>c;», and as many country people pay extra (river rates), should townies murmur when their costly kerosene lamps come so near home?

July 27. — To-diy is mild, calm, beautiful— one of those days that whisper of peace and tranquility: when all turmoil, mercantile, political, international, seem« fur, far away with, the sordid, shallow worid.