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Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 249, 24 April 1883, Page 2

Beports; from Riversdale and Waikaia appear on page 4. Parliament is further prorogued until 15th May. A farm at North Taieri has ohanged hands at the long prioe of £33 10s per acre. Mr McSwaDj formerly clerk at the Gore Bailway station, has been appointed stations master at Woodlands* Several cases of stack-burning under sua* picious oircumstances have been reported to the Inveroargill police. Mr Gdrdon, Inspector of Mineß, is to make an inspection shortly and report to the Go* vernment in oonnection with the Waikaia Bush road. / The petition praying for the establishment of a post office at Gordon has been forwarded by Mr Wilkin, C.P.M., Invercargill to the Hon. tbe Postmaster General. The revenue of the Clinton Town Board for the year ending 31st Maroh was a trifle leßs thau £60. They spent £47. 'xhe new Presbyterian Church at Clinton is 1 nearing completion. It will Beat about 250 perßone, and*hasbeen built by Mr Watson BhooTes. Attention is directed to b_ alteration in the date of Messrs Green end Souness' sale of Mr Geo. Moore's farm and live and dead Btock. IC will take place on Monday next on the ground near Biversdale* ' From an advertisement appearing else , where, it will be see/i that Mr Mitner Bte« < phen, the celebrated Australian healing medium, will arrive iv Gore to-day and Btoy for a day or two. He intimates that ho may bo oonsulted at his hotel during his visit here. A very successful ooncert was held in the schoolhouke, Pinnaole, on Friday } evening. There was a very fair attendance, .and the programme, consisting of instrumental and vocal mus jc, readings, recitations, <fee., was gone through without a hitch. At the close of the entertainment the room was cleared and danoing was maintained with spirit until about 4.30 a.m. 1 "A. thfb la*t meeting of the Hope of Gore Lodge, 1J0.G.T,, it was unanimously resolved "That the beat thanks of the liodge be accorded to Messrs Green and Souness for the use of their auotion mart for the recent gift auction, and especially to Mr Green for his gratuitous, services on that occasion as auotioneer." The 'Otago DaUy, Times' .mentions that ! ; His B'onor Judga Williams the "other day admitted Mr Arch, . reeertlly from ~k^A &?ss&%■ : : |^»!#3_ielk ofGbre:;' "~y : .^Ay^YYYyY/.iY. { _rspebfaiiraiii left Clinton at 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon for tbe purpose of distribute ing some 40 empty trucks along the Tapanui and main lines. These should oarry away a considerable quantity of the grain now stored at the various stations and in the .open air. Perhaps, too, the Department will repeat the dose at frequent intervals. Passing Pukerau the other other day we noticed 3600 saoks of, grain partly in the shed and partly outside. Mr Walter Deverell, chief draughtsman in the Invercargill Survey Offioe, reoently showed us some well executed and capitally finished drawings in water colors of the wild and romantio scenery in the Manipori and Te Anau Lake districts. The drawings were made by Mr_ Deverell during a reoent expedition inte that terra incognita, and reflect credit on the artist* Mr Deverell is one <>f those fortunate individuals who being* possessed of a versitality of genius pan turn their hands to almost anything, and while he now only practies in water-colors as a means of recreation, be will, if he perseveres, soon make a name for himself in this branch of art. Mr Deverell has. , expressed his intention of visjting Gore at an early date and giving the public here an op* porturtlty bf becoming acquainted with the beauties of Hew Zealand. cen«*y by means of a lantern and slides prepared by himself. /^ /Lfcitlßy oooupied a considerable place atthe Southland Land Board's laßt meeting. F. Dyer, having failed to comply with the residential condition en his section 7, it was decided to inform him that unless he ocoupied it forthwith it would be forfeited. The Ranger reported that no improvements had been made on section 5, and that the transfer applied for from G. Bobinson to H. Pedlow,. should not have been granted. ,At the Board's last meeting Bobinson had stated that he had erected several chains of fencing, and that the timber was on the ground for & bouse. Both of these statements the Banger had found to be false, and the section was therefore declared to be forfeited. ( Oar Riversdale correspondent reports in another place the very successful soiree in this district last Thursday evening. He also states :—" Mr GammelL the Inspector of Sohools, visited Riveisdale School the other morning.— Threshing is in full swing, and good yields are reported. —Our Sohool is supplied with a harmonium. The money was oolleoted in a very speedy manner by Mrs Gee, It will no doubt be of some use in assisting the ohildren to sing. The big gooseberry Beason is popularly supposee to be dear to the journalist's heart But then popular ideas may be altogether wreng. However, we, speaking for ourselves, don't mini writing "big gooseberry" paragraphs when we are shown anything really out of the common iv the way of the produce ofthe ground. A few days ago Mr Howells, of the Bailway Hotel showed us a number of potatoes talten from one root and weighing in all 31Ibs, some of the fruit*— a single potato •—weighing over 2_ lbs. This plant was self- ( sown aud was grown on a portion of Mr Howell's property at Lumsden, recently purchased from the N. Z. Agricultural Company • Another, monster, specimen comes from the

_ ■ i — — - - | yg .HI | .farm^of Mr Baxter, OfcamaV ihthe shape of a turnip weighing 14 lbs end', measuring . 34 inches in girth. ', •• " ' ' .' . - ' ■'" \ '