KIMBELL NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15446, 8 September 1914, Page 3

KIMBELL NOTES.

.AGRICULTURAL. PATRIOTIC. AXD f SOCIAL. Tiie weather has continued extreme', y dry tluoughout the late winter anil spring, so that now a good day's rain would 1,0 very welcome to one and ai:. if only to ■ lre:!ien things up." For pastoral.sts the dry spell lias not been viewed as favourably as by the teamagrieultur.st, who' has been enabied it: get a good lot of cultivation carried on, under lirst class conditions. There were sharp snaps of frost on some nights ami high drying w.iuis occas.onaily. One on the 4/h lust. o«peciailv checked spring growth someuMat. A gcod many young lambs are about and progressing* favourably. Patriotically, though m.t officially represented on any pub.'.c collecting body, we are a loyal enough community to be mindful of our deep tit lit of grat.tude for the great and heioic light, our fellow creatures have anil arc- putting up, in glorious manifestation of the true Clirist-.an and inherent lovi- cf justice. With i>::r mutual acknowledgment also gees our various mites. And so have our sons. Gr.d's speed, to their.. One father was over'heard to remark on being condoled with on his son being accepted. "Mon! 1 wish I had twenty to go." The. other day our local tennis enthus'asts publicly d.splayed the.r esteem of valour, by voting a handsome contribution to the Belgium Fund. Nevertheless evidence is not want'iig that our public iriends are net living unmindful of the future, or without consideration lor those to follow.

The want of a piano for up. the pub!:e. such as in musical socials, school concerts and the lik:* monevraising entertainments ha;: b.en a long ielt Wjint. A particularly lavouralile opportunity of prceuring an ex:e."!ent instrument came to the notice r.f local school committee, who in turn la'd the piopcsal iietore si vera!' residents who usually evince an interest in such matters, with the result that 'i bargain was executed through Mr Hammond. whilst, <:n a vs't rfc?ntiy to Chr'stchurch. and a very fine yyiaiio has been secured, with a debt to accompany it for a while. I'p to« the tints* of writing I understand half the ptirfliase money is in sight, thanks to tiie successful issue of a couple of ■euchre truiniaments. and handsome donat. ons from the local Tenirs C.ub, and Mr lliimdton. The first touhiafraent 'was won by Mr J. Bain, art] the

la*t. a dual one. gentlemen playing uiu'er match conditions. whi!-.t. the ladies accompanying them, by lot, scored on the ' "programme" ticket. The match rcsui'tetl in Mr Andrew Allan scoring the final from" Master D Bain, making -his sixth successive w'n. anil M iss Ban won likew's?. beating Mrs G Smith, notching five out of six games, "best two ojit of three." If sufficient interest is manifest the promoters propose- to run another ienrnament. ladies v. gents. It is on the tapis also, that- a big concert and dance and small g'ft pale are to eventuate ere i.-jnct I" help tiie fxtlnciion of the undesirable "monkey" c-n the niano. The project of obtaining a public hall is be'ng kept steadily "in view we are assured, and the matter of obtaining a site js yet under ccns'tlerati:,n. A report thereon may bo tabled anv day.