GLENLEDI.

Otago Witness, Issue 2686, 6 September 1905, Page 40

GLE NL ED I.

n August 29.— The' weather, . tnat mucn-cus- • tuoscd' topic, is surely feminine from its changeableness. -Truly, "Time . doth noi taritheor nor custom stale its infinite variety. ,We have had' a good spell of dry weather, 61 varying temperatures, broken last Tuesday Evening by light rain, which was succeedeo later in the night by a light fall of snow. ffhis soon melted, and save for a heavy Train shower *or two^on Friday morning it has jgince dry. Although, in consequence, tanks almost Wmpty; it/is^yery, gratifying :tc r Know .'that farm work "is proceeding, so well. "''Agricultural operations- are in full, swing Jsverywhese, and/ in many cases,- are well i adVanoed. -There to be a. larger area qi wind -than iisu"al x uEidei'"cultivatian-.,tliis 'spring. Early - I<anibs.--^Mr- Jas. LMfG-uigan r.has, * I -notice, ar Jorge! flock-of -ine young" lambs, .'and ■p said- to have lost not a single lamb, during she Sfipwfall last week; ''-.'" ■ Sale.— Messrs D. and R.> Morgan, -father and •on* respectively, have'sold their farms to"Mr .£. H. Scanlan, of Milton, who already owns y "tihree farms on the Akatore - Coast. Messrs ■IMorgan have for some time wished to sell out "and are to be congratulated- on Having* found » purchaser, especially as advancing -years . *nd ) bad» -health > prevents Mr Morgan, " sen., from working his- place as he would like to Eo. , - ' Ball. — On .the evening" of August 18 -the bachelors of Glenledi anS Akatore gave their annual ball which was r ,~&3 usual, sucessful. The scene of the entertainment ' was the "Barn," Glenledi which' building has 'quite a place in -local^ histoxy - andi has- . often echoed ' the ''sounds of siniikx - ' rcv«lry duxing- the past' 30- years. this oscagionT - Hi " Martin Kref t eniciently * acted ms M.C., and the .music was 'also- supplied* by ■local talent: Dancing wa»" kept /up merrily until a late hour, . and during the " evening eongp were effectively rendered.,- by. Messrs Ec-Eoralq.-A. G-rWa,-«ndi otheis. interval tile committee handed round refreshments, of which -a generous sapply.had been : provided. Tfie dance concluded with the visual expressions of pleasure- for' a -pleasant^ evening, and •thanka to the bachelors for their efforts to >nake it so. Some staid outsiders have been > lieard to say that the people 'of these .part 3 . iu?o,' ! mad on dJanoing."" B«ally, there, would -". eeeio. t6 be • some t truth- in'.tEe assertion'^ for«ven" the Jong- distance- to. the .township,', and their "har6T'*;work with "their " -teams, did not ?,--lJefcei; Beveral- gay, gallantsir from' 'attending "the . Oddfellow3.'»Ball t Cwliich 1 took place- last Friday ; svening in Milton^ , iNbr,,. it ia"to\be "believed,* .^■were^they unaccomp,aniecl by members', of the' '^air : sex. *" • '^' ''*■ -<- - v v» '-; *> " r