DEEP STREAM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 39

DEEP STREAM.

June 14.— The last two days of the merry month of May were real winter days. The storm was very severe here, and the bitter gale made it impossible to do anythmg out of doors. The snow which fell was not heavy, but the wind caused very b^g drifts on the Lammerlaw Range, and even on the lower levels. Hard frosts followed for a few days, and now there is a great thaw on, accompanied by fog and a slight drizzling ram. No sheep were lost hereabouts, but further back on the Upper Taieri I believe there were a good many buried and some lost. The Telephone. — The telephone which is to connect Middlemarch with Outram is now almost certain to follow the Main road through the Shannon and Clark's Junction. If this turns out to be correct, and it is to be hoped it is correct, then the Deep Stream and its inhabitants will benefit greatly. It will enable us, by travelling a matter of seven miles, to communicate any day of the week with either Outram, Middlemarch, or even Dunedin It will, in fact, like a much-advertised article, fill a long-felt want Certainly the «ettleTs on the proposed route kive worked, hard to get it, and deserve to be successful. Presentation. — Some few weeks ago a nurnl.or of the friends and neighbours of the late Mr Peter Flannery met at Mx Charles Cattanach's homestead, at Ashton Vale, and presented Miss Honora Fiannery, who had acted as the late Mr Flannery's housekeeper, with i substantial purse of sovereigns. Miss Flan nery was much liked by everyone who knew her, and the gathering would ha-ve been much larger but for the fact of Mx Flannery's death having taken place so recently If Mt Flannery himself had been alive it was the intention of his friends to make him a handsome present, and give him a right royal send-off, but unfortunately he met with the sad trap accident which caused his death just as the programme had been settled, and everything had to be g.ven up at the last moment.