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Otago Witness, Issue 2685, 30 August 1905, Page 5

The Peninsula has passed through a ph& r.crnonally mild winter (says our Sandy< mount correspondent). Feed has been plentiful, and fitock running ou# has thriven better than that. liepfc in. Ploughing is ready ail dono and farm work is well advanced. Mir Nyhon, of tho Mount, has Jambs several weeks old. Mr Judah Solomon is making application afc the Cromwell Warden's Court for a water right of 40 heads out of the Roaring Meg Creek. Th& water is to be used fcr mining, irrigation, and industrial purposes in the Cromwell district, the probable outlay in connection with tho scheme being estimateq at £35,000. The land which it is proposed to irrigate is that comprising the large flattf situated between the mouth of the Kawarai* Gorge and Cromwell, and the Lowburn dis tricfe. If the project is carried to a suo ce&sful issue it should prove of incalculabli benefit to Cromwell and the district in ifi immediate vicinity. Tho prospectus of the forthcoming exhf. bition of Australian manufactures and prn» duct?, to be held in the Exhibition Building-, Melbourne, in January and February next, is now published and ready for dk.tr bution, and copies will be- forwarded bj post on application to the manager (Mr F L. W. Ashby), 237 Collins street, Melbourne. The exhibition, which is to bo a non-corn, petitive one as far as the quality of tin exhibits is concerned, is to be open for thret or four weeks, and is to ba strictly ani wholly in the interests of the industries, manufactures, and products of Australia! with the object of popularising them and assisting in destroying the prejudice thai unfortunately exists against many of them. The admission moneys (excepting thosa received on January 27 and 29), on which days the A.N.A. Grand National fete will ba applied— First, towards defraying the expenses of the exhibition ; second, to returning as far as possible amounts paid by exhibitors for space; and, third, to establishing a fund for carrying on future exhi-i bitions of Australian manufactures and products, or furthering the objects for which tha exhibition is being held. Trade processer in operation and machinery in motion ar< to be special features of the exhibition, anc motive power will bo supplied to exhibitor! free of charge. Immediate application for space is necessary, as in the allotment prece*. | deuce will bo given as far as possible ttf priority of application. Our Sandymount correspondent writes: — " Tho Sandymount flaxmill appears to hav6 fallen on troublous times. It has been closed now for a couple of mouths, and there doea not appear much prospect of its reoiDoning-. This is a matter for regret, as there is plenty of flax on the Mount if it were available. It is said that one of the leasons, but not tho chief, for the closing of what was hoped would be a successful venture, is that tho«e who own the flaxj will not part with it." The Kcslyn Borough Council announces that it prepeses to bcirow £12,000 lor thf* purpose of securing v/atenvoi\s for supplying the borough. The loan will have a ourlency of 21 years, and the rats of interest lit not to exceed i\ per cent, per auniun.