SOUTH MARLBOROUGH.

Otago Witness, Volume 14, Issue 2648, 14 December 1904, Page 37

SOUTH MARLBOROUGH.

Lower Conway, December 2. — For several j evenings past a change irom our dry weather j seemed pending, and last night ram &et in from the south-west, and still continues steadily from that quarter. "Wayback's" Troubles Continue. — On Wednesday morning about 5 o'clock he set out for Kaikouxa with his season's clip on the cart, to return some three or four hours later with word that the load lay at the bottom of a gully under the broken dray, and that the horses had a marvellous escape. He borrowed a idray, and I went with him to the scene of the accident. The horses had paused at a steep, sharp turn in the track, had backed, and the dray had rushed down for about a chain, turning over in its descent, for th© upper wheel was smashed to splinters and the axle bent. Flax-bushes broke the fall of the horses, and, save for being stiffened and stunned, they came off free irom hurt. We sledged the wool and the broken dray from the guliy to the roadside. -vs we were lifting the broken wheels and body into the dray a passing traveller paused, asked us if "that was all of it," and gave us a, hearty lift, strong and welcome. "Way back" set forth (again yester morn along the track honoured with the name of road, where in many places the least blunder would mean annihilation to team and driver.

Naturalist's Note. — I observed the cunning of a lark to decoy me from her nest as I ciossed the field this evening. She fluttered from her eggs, and, pretending to be almost helpless, struggled off to some distance, watchnig me the while lest I should touch her nest.

400-gallon tank from a house, and shifted a pleasure-boat from the foreshore to some distance uo Bay street. The Colac Bay correspondent of the Orepuki Advocate says that the supply of houses is not equal to the. demand.