LOWER CONWAY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2622, 15 June 1904, Page 32

LOWER CONWAY.

June 2. — Here in a, swamp untouched by science smce the birth of Time I am taking practical lessons in E,eo!c^y — -..ot with Geikie's. text book; lather with spade and shovel, and a, zeat that takes the po\sh off boots and leggings in no timw. It is but a recent formation whereat I work— a matted tangle of fern, flax, nigger-heads, lushes, and the roots of longrotted birch. I notice that the water, taking a different direction, flows fieely behind me. an-d t ! 'c p'cugU may yet turn this sour and savage wle'enicss into arab'e land. Weather — The days are mild, with a warm, drying wind fioin the nor'-wesi. This morning's sunnse was 2r ;— a tender, pinkish light; 011 the tussocky hi'ltops and the few fleecy clouds that clung about them — a. tender light that gradually sto'e down tho hillsides, to fall upon the solemn murmurous stream that tells of snows that are thaw.r.g far inland. June 4. — Last night a sudden, bittsr s^ormi oaine up from tlie sou-west. and lor a while the night was pitch d-ark, vrdb a sprinkling of hail from the mky clouds, that, however, were blown by, the stars shining forth again. The coM wind has b'own down the liiver throushout the day, s^cli whistles disma'ly around the house to-night Obituary.— Mr Stanton Workman, a sturdy old-timer, Icij lesident in Kaikcura, died recently «t Pc'oie, 111 his eighty-seventh year. His body 1 <-s bioughi clown an the steami packet to Le interred 111 the district where he hid hved so long. He lode in the first horserace in New Zealand. Only two nags contended, and he the sailor-horseman, brought his horhe in a wmnei.