WETERSTONES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2556, 11 March 1903, Page 31

WETERSTONES.

March 9. — The rabbiters expect to make another commencement trapping rabbits about the middle of the present month It is reported here that one landowner intends tc act as hi own agent, and export the rabbits he collects from the. different rabbiters around about. At present the weather is still too warm for irapping. Last week was generally fine, with warm showers nearly every day, heavy at times, but only lasting a few minutes. Friday wa. the worst. In the afternoon there was a rough S.W. wind, with rain, the barometer being at 29.07, harms fallen 7-10 th since the beginning of the week. At night it commenced to rise, the weather clearing and the wind changing north about to N.E., the barometei having risen by Saturday night to 29.81, and ot the following night to 29.94. This morning there was frost and fog, which soon cleared. The lowest reading of the thermometer was 46deg it 7 n.m. of the 7th; the highest, 76deg at noor of the sth.

Mining.— The dams at Wetherstones are getting very low. Both the Phoenix dam. which the Local Industry uses, and the dam at Malono's Flat, which supplies the Golden Rise* with watei, will probably be run ou* about th end of this week, if the weather does not change soon. It is, however, good weather for the farmers.