WARDEN’S COURT, CLYDE,

Dunstan Times, Issue 579, 23 May 1873, Page 3

WARDEN’S COURT, CLYDE,

(Before W. L. Simpson, Esq., Warden.) Ti. Naylor applied for Water License for head Water nice heading from Mutton-town I’oint ami terminating at Dry Creek. Granted.

The extrema mildness of the season is shown by the second flowering of fruit trees in Mr. John Draghicavieh’s wardens at the South Spit Westport. He has there an npp’e tree in full healthy blossom.—At Clyde, may now be seen apple’ trees with the second crop) of applies, fit for use. “What are you halloaing about, Bill?’ said a mother at the stair’s foot one evening after her two boys bad been put to bed. “Please, mother,” said Bill, “Jem wants half the bed.” “Well,” says .she, let him have it, and you take the other half.” “Yes mother,” says Bill, “but ho will have his half out of the middle, and make me sleep on both sides of him.” There are some pienpdo who credit the story that the streets of London are paved with gold. Some three walks back a confectioner's apprentice ran away from his master in Oxfordshire and came to London, “ whore he understood he would soon bocome a rich man. He was quickly undeceived. Having neither home, money, or 'employment', he soon attracted the attention of the School Board officer, and has now been sent homo, cured, it is tobehopied of bis dreams of fortune making. The following paragraph will bo road with interest by those who own or cultlv t ■ randy laud: —There is at present growing m the Govern.mentDomain, at Christchurch, a specimen of a valuable grass —the Cni/don Ducluhm, commonly called the “ dool” or “dear’ glass, which was accidentally brought from Sydney along with some other plan's, and which should pirovc valuable to those settlers who piossess loose or sandy land. The grass, it is stated, grows luxuriously on this description of soil, is very nutritious, and has the valuable property ■of remaining perfectly green in tiro driest weather, and of spreading with extraordinary rapiidi'y.