ROXBURGH.

Otago Witness, Issue 3467, 24 August 1920, Page 23

ROXBURGH.

August 20.—For the past eight days we have had beautiful sunny weather, with cold winds and hard frosts at night. Not for some years past has the frost been so severe. _ Stock have had a rather bad time of it in consequence- of the cold.

The Orchard.—The hard frosts experienced will have the effect of holding back "the fruit buds, and but for its appearance many of the trees would have now been in bloom. As it is, the buds appear to be- ready to burst forth after a few warm days.' General. —Interest continues to be takenin hydro-electric proposals, and now that the Eleotrical Department has been separated from the Public Works Department greater progress is .anticipated.—Locally affairs are very quiet. Mining, at one time the mainstay of the district, is almost dead. Rabbiters who have blocks of land to work on ar© doing well—.axe, in fact, making more out of the land than the sheep farmer.— Affairs in connection with the proposed cottage hospital .are at a standstill, but the reason is not known.—l understand tie canvass for funds for a local fallen soldiers' memorial has been successful, and the appeal on behalf of the starving children of Europe has been cheerfully responded to. . An appeal is now being mad© for funds for th© Methodist parsonage. That money is not scarce is shown by the success of th© recent bowlers' bazaar, when over was raised.