DEEP STREAM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 34

DEEP STREAM.

June 22.—The weather during- the la*fc ten days baa been mild, and the days bright and sunny, reminding us almost of summer. A? a matter of fact, we had no fine weather for more than a. couple of days at a time hereabouts during the last summer in anyway equal to the fine warn* days of the last fortnight. So far this- year there has been a remarkable absence of frost, and' the few skating men in the diatriet are looking v&ry doleful. Pastoral—With the mild weather, all kinds of stock are thriving, and there ia a gcod deal of feed still on the various luns. No doubt if we were to get a spell of haxd frost thia would 6oou wither away, but at anyrate sheep and cattLe have got good covering to their bones thia year. It is splendid ploughing wcatbeir, and towards the Sutton' and the Shannon farmers are very forward in this- respect. A* Rockrandk Station some very good cattle wera brought in, from the Upper Taieri recently and branded, but owing to the lowprice which cattle are now bringing in the market, Mr Allan Boyd determined to hold them for a while. Roads.—All the ropda in the Deep Stream Biding, are at present in very good order, ine'uding the Dunstam track cvee the Lamrae-r-l&w, and the two district surfacemen, Me^sr* Blake and Ferguson, have earned 1 the thanks, of the residents here for the manner in. which they look after them. The county, authorities, havo just completed the. road ta the ar"^?grazing runs in the Upper Deep Stream as fan as they can go- this wimfer,. fcttfc I understand that work will be resumed! in the spring, and the road taken on from Beattie'av where it 'now stops, as 1 far aa Heensnr's- ran. The "work hue Been well dbne, and' considering the amount of hand 1 rock cutting ©retailed, it has- been speedily done also. For tihis, and for some other minor repairs in the immediate neighboxurhood, we have tc thank especially the county engineer and the member of, our riding on the council—Cr. Doherty. General.—Mi Seddon's very sudden death j came as a great shock to everyone hex?. Al- >

t though Tris' supporters in this district can 1)9 counted on v :>n<*- hand', yet aH, without dis> i tlnction of patty, feet that Ira- place milt r be very difficult to fill. He died.as he woulct - have wished", at the helm, and tfie- good work r he haa done for this colraiy and it people, [ apart from his personai popularity, will suf- . fice to- keep- hi 3 memory- green with friend and i, foe alike- for many a long year. There ai** numbers in. tins colony in. humble life who r , have lost a true friend, and in. many cases ■ a personal friend. - His family at the present s ' time' have the consolation, of knowing thsiE , tb& whole world grieves with them, lot his k fame was not confined! to. these- small-islands, ! ' but was Empire wid«. ' : , ■ 1 i J ' [ 1 ' ■ j '