KIMBELL NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14657, 26 January 1912, Page 7

KIMBELL NOTES.

(Fj-am our own Correspondent.) '"Everything comes to those, who ivoit." So wu are now--ui. hist—experiencing some favourable v.oathor, allowing of shoaling bcin;; uiii.'-.hed, fully A month after fiuo '.imc, but contrary to expectations, »o ill ciiact is evident, ♦ither in condition of wool or ftnee of sheep. Lambs, ixsrhaps, havo not done so well. The hi to shorn snoop though will ehovr tn a disadvantage Eliould they bo "for sale," Luc Bjjninst that tho holder will have reap- «<{ a. decided advantage, it by tho J.ito shoarinj; ho has caught the enhanced price for wool that has obtained buico tho earlier offer/nys. Tho improvement ; n the weather is a'so very much welcomed by tho haymakers, of whomthe.ro aro a good many round about, labouring under the satisfactory burden of having "Eometliing to haiidlo," not like last year, when most of ub morcly hud "something t<> look aa n neighbour tersely cempared this season's abundance epainat last year's scarcity. ■We havo not yet !o.if, tlie effects of tho recent flood—tho tjrsfc real "old man" flood for about twelve years. If our worthy councillors do not boutir themselves and r.how a littlo mora

the "art few years.—l fear that another cueli au!i::ra.bur.d:\nce of storm water | will leave- an oiiwt that Dame Tim© !'herself will not be able to erase. For mi'-iiiii;r \a 11.:11o patent than the yrobability of the whole of tho Opihi waters breaking into cur beaut-ful I't-tlo stream —and then—"who would havo thought it" ?—£ 10,003, perhaps T.nii:o that, swamped for the luck of £IOO judkiuusly spent. Nature ha 3 ordy provided banks for a normal flow of water down "tho silver stream." Our seh'.oi committeemen havo -recently had tho namo3 of three npplii cant.' - . submitted to them by the Board ! of Education, from whom* to majce a selection of n.'i a=Ti?tnnl trceher. The attendance of children has qualified the school for such an addition to tli3 tr.fl. Tho ■ultimate ."'lection fell to J\liJ4's Anderson, of Albury. with M"ss of Temuka,' as "emergency." The school takes up on sth prox., and ] rrne'ersrnml it is intended to hold the annual children's treat the. following Friday afternoon, so tho "Tod "imi.-'owivrs aro requested to do n. littlo cnukmir for that date, in anticipation of the "riddles having a full p : onie appetite. It is hoped the weather will allow of tho ii'cntiHy taking: the form of a. picnic, thero being several beautil'ni i>luiit.'!ti.or.s handy, the use, of which could he had for the asking and due earo promised and exercised.