INVERCARGILL ITEMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1111, 17 January 1885, Page 3

INVERCARGILL ITEMS.

[By Telegraph.] (From an Occasional Correspondent.)

Invbrcabgill, January 16fch.

The crops between Milton and Invercargill are still beautiful and green ; and

if the weather does not speedily change, the poor farmers will begin to look decidedly "blue." This weather, they say, is not only " rough on rate," but it is more than "rough on cockatoes," past, . present, and future.

Fires and lively meetings of creditors are about the only items of discussion at Invercargill. They tell me that lately, owing to the two above mentioned causes, the coming ," City of the South " has been figuratively and literally going, to " blazes."

Harrington, the ambitious youth who tried to demolish Hearn, the champion sculler of New; Zealand, but who got swamped of cash and fame in the attempt, left Riverton this week for fairer fields and waters new. Six admirers saw him off. He thinks that 600 will see him return. Query ? '. The manager of the Orepuki Coal Go. t tells me they are working day and night, . and still they are unable, to keep, pace with the demand for their coal and shale. . This Company's mine will yet prove itself a most' valuable property. ,