Apiti Notes
(FEOM OUR OWN COBBEBPONDENTO I am glad to say that as the weather permitted the settlers have been successful in getting in their crops of grass seed, which in most instances, have been very heavy. The presence of the men working for the contractors who are doing the: metal- { ling to the- 1 roads makes the place look lively. Besides those already here, there? will be about twenty teams at work this r week. Mr Hidden shifted a mob of eight [ hundred fat sheep out of the block last ; week. " The successful, tenderer for Mr Old- . ham's fencing at the Owl's Boost, adver. [■ tised m your paper, was Mr W. F. . Marsh which is a guarantee a good jobwill be made of it. [ A meeting of the School Committee . was held on Monday night when all the meuibirs were present a ud the usual ; work was done. One of Mr Lyon's men had an unpleasant experience the other day whereby he nearly lost his life. As he was working in the pit a fail of gravel " came down,, and knocked him over, a-fc. the same tiiae inflicting a severe woun d on his head. He was attended to as well as possible by his mates, and will soo a be able to get to work again. The country is looking spleudid, with i good feed and the stock all in good con- : dition. ■ v - * ... \ ■"'
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 91, 24 January 1891, Page 2
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