Gore

Southland Times, Issue 12008, 31 March 1892, Page 2

Gore

[from oubows cohbsspondbnt]. The Farmers' Club was to have met last Saturday to discuss several matters of business, but owing to members being occupied so much with t!ie harvest, threshing and so forth, adjourned for a fortnight, and with every desire to avoid being a prophet of evil it is feared that, they will not look so happy then as tht-y did some short time ago. The tact is that the threshing is throwing out more straw and less oats than was anticipated ; the average will be considerably less than Mas reckoned upon when the corn was standing, and a good deal of it will not show a tine sample However, there it is, and let us be thankful, and send, as is being done, a few sheave-i to the churches, which are increasing in number and in need. The sale yard yesterday presented a very animated appearance, the number of sheep entered being large even for Gore, the quality good, and the price* fair. To-day there is a large ram Bale. The town tmde is somewhat dull country buyers not having time to visit much at present ; in fact so dull is our main road that a runaway cart horse and leader goiug through it the other day brought all the male and female population to the dooii to witness the sigh: — they did not, however, help to contribute the 5s in which the custodian has to be mulcted. Notwithstanding the lull in trade the sale of sections in the borough goes on bravely, those any way approaching the railway station going off at a premium. Mr Grant, late of the Ciiteriou hotel, by public sale on Saturday disposed of a number of quarter acre sections in what is known as Grant's garden at prices ranging from L 25 upwards iv fuct there ia a " boom" on for sections at present. The football club met on Saturday evening — annual meeting — Mr L. T. Symes presiding. The report did not mince matters : it plainly

stated that during the year the club had lost five matches, won one, and drawn one. The balance in hand was L 2 7s. Twelve new members were elected, and officebearers appointed mu.ih as before, and "swearing" to be banished from the play ground ! This is what kept away the ladies and success. The school committee held their monthly meeting ac usual. The Gordon roll shows 229 and that of Gore 2155. The former is getting an addition to the building — where will all these children get land to settle upon ? The water gas is declared by Mr Watt, oar irreprt ssible gas en^'ioeer, not to have failed in Gore. It was only the management in Gore th.it fai'o-1, and he is now urging its acceptance in B»l lutha and with a probability of a fairer trial. They should profit by our experience and make a good thing out of it. At a special meeting of the Borough Council on Friday two auctioneer's licenses were sanctioned, and tho Council was occupied a long time in discussing an outstanding claim by Mr Fletcher, solicitor, some items of which were objected to ; as also the appointment of a solicitor to sue for the outstanding rates. The details were not of interest to outsiders, and finally a number of the councillors (including Councillor Baker, who raised the discussion; left the table without voting on the tinal motion. The County Council do things more economically, the collector sues without the aid of a solicitor. 29th March.