GIMMERBURN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2623, 22 June 1904, Page 35

GIMMERBURN.

June 17. — We have haa exceptionally heavy and continued rain for the last two days. The amount of fallen water, together with the melted snow from the hills, has pvit the river and creeks into high flood. Large areas of the flats are submerged, and everything seems to bs a sea of water. The settlers are net used to so heavy a downpour, but take the phi'osephical view of things that- it is only once in a while that we have to endure such treatment. The loads are the essence of sloppincss and muck, and it will be some time before they will dry. Threshing. — Things are" now at a standsti'l iv this direction. Harris's mill broke down some weeks ago, while Ivirkland's haa orders to proceed to Middleniareh as scan as the. weather will permit. This leaves the White Sow farmers in a hole, as, between th-e two, they have succeeded in getting neither. Some arecarting their wheat to Na&eby, while others are sending it to town ; other 3, again, are hanging back m the hopes of a batter price later on.

Scholastic. — The second meeting oi householders for the purpose of electing a committee foil through for want of a sufficient number present. Evidently the interest taken in these matters is not very keen. 1 have seen the time when there was gTeat competition as to who should be elected, but of late years it has been difficult to form a committee at ail. Things seem to have fallen flat in this district — that is those of a public nature.