SOUTH MARLBOROUGH.

Otago Witness, Issue 2623, 22 June 1904, Page 37

SOUTH MARLBOROUGH.

Lower Conway, June 10. — The past week has been dry, but the atmospheric temperature very variable. During the night and early morning a keen wind blows clown the river from the western hills. The middays have been sunny and pleasant, the sunsets fine, the evenings keen with a brilliant mass of stars.

Stranded.^JChe inconvenience of up-to-date travel wa3 illustrated in the river-bed to-day, v-hen a motor-bicyclist, who was towing his wife in a. wicker chair, had an unfortunate breakdown, and had to telegraph for a 'bus to come to the rescue. — The iinger-post on the Kaikoura to Cheviot road next to the Conway River bears a pencilled protest by some enraged traveller who has been put to inconvenience by ths merely local names on that finger-post. The directions should be altered, or pnother post erected with the longer road iine m view.

Weather. — A light north-westerly air has prevailed to-day, and this evening was bsautiful. We are weK. on into the winter weeks, without having had tlhe severe weather we some while since anticipated.

Pastoral. — Tho sheep are looking well, and the hillsides would be desolate indead witncixfc them. The fern is much lighter on the Claverly side of the river than it was when the small settler first made, his home here.