DEEP STREAM.
June 15. — Now that the heavy snowfall of a fortnight ago has disappeared, we are having a spell of almost -spring-like weather. The drifts were very heavy in places on the Lammerlaw and Eock and Pillar Eanges, but the thaw which followed the storm, soon made a clearance of these, and for a day or two the river was in flood. Social.— On Thursday evening last the friends of the Messrs and Mises Walsh — which, in this case, means all the residents in the Stream — met, and during the course of the evening Mr Charles M'Cann, on behalf of their numerous friends, presented them with a piir&e of sovereigns, and at the same time very happily expressed the feeling of regret which, e-roryone here experiences on their leaving the Stream. Mr John Walsh very suitably replied, and a very pleasant evening was afterwards spent in dancing and singing. The family have bought a farm at Fernhills. in Southland, and have already left for their new home. Pastoral.— Eocklands Station, the present iea.se of which expires next year, hag been secured again by Mr Allan Boyd for a further term. This is good news for many in this -neighbourhood, to whom Mr Boyd has been a good master, and in many cases a friend.
On the expiration of the present lease the area of the station will be reduced )jy about ■ 30,000 acres, as the Commissioners of Crown Lands m February of this year decided to j take this amount off the station for small grazing runs. The portion taken oif is on the , Upper Taieri Flat, near the Taieri River, and adjoining on one side Palearoa, which was cil up some time ago. Sport. — There have noL been many sportsmen lip so far this season, and those who have put in an appearance did not secure verygcod bags, a fact partly attributable to the weather conditions, and partly also to the wildness of the ducks. The recent bad weather has driven a good many swans and Paradi.se ducks from the regions of the Upper Taieri down to tho Stream, and the swans especially aic a veiy pretty sight on the deserted raining paddocks here. Mining. — The manager of the Deep Stream : Hydraulic Sluicing Company was obliged to close down the claim for the winter at tho '• beginning of this month, owing to the severe • snowstorms and frosts, which completely stopped the water supply. This is much earlier '• than usual, and most of the men are now away for a well-earned winter holiday, which '' is eagerly looked forward to.
DEEP STREAM.
Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 39
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