APPLEBY NOTES.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11559, 21 February 1906, Page 4

APPLEBY NOTES.

[From Our Own Correspondent.] The interest of the whole district 19 at present centred on the coming Swimming Sports, to bo held at the local bachs on Saturday afternoon next. Splondid entries have been received from the Nelson Club, and tho inter-club events shoukl^provide good sport and close linishes. The local swimmers are training hard but have not quite struck championship form, although they have improved considerably since the boginning of the season. They hope to learn a good deal from the town men. The school events, especially the championship, are envoking great enthusiasm amongst the school boys, several schools being quite confident that their school will carry off the honours. These sports have beon timed to come during an unusual interval, between the harvesting of the early

' and the lato crops. So far tb« f weathnr has been favourable and ths farmers are well satisfied with the result of early crops. Should the weather again favor there is every promise of a very good yield from the late harvest- . . . The hap ga^dfeiiiS lob. iare looking \ weiA. attd tew weeks the picking ! will fee in fiiil swingr. 3 j