OTARIA.

Mataura Ensign, Volume VI, Issue 284, 24 August 1883, Page 5

OTARIA.

(From our own Correspondent.)

Trot round the farms ! That's about the same as most of your corresponpondents can tell you. All ai*e busy ploughing, ready to pufc in the unfortunate oats, as this district does not appear to grow wheat to anything like perfection, and no doubt as they till the ground they are hoping the returns will be better than last year's and not send any to the wall as they have unfortunately done lately. I hear some of your Waimea neighbours are well up in the cultivation of linseed. Perhaps it would not be presuming too much to ask them when writing to you to give us a lit le information on the Mibjcct, and the mode of reaping it. &c. ,

Our distiict id very dull at presentin fact, all around stem to be the same, Gore included, as nothing startling seems to occur.

Where is " Clmrcliless !' ' Has he got whiskers yet t If not I should recommend him to go to Beissel's. Criticism is the life of discussion, and I suppose the church, is open to it — at any-l-ate, Mr Spurgeoii used to think so, as he did not mind how the y pulled him to pieces as long as they did not deprive him of his pants. Also Ward Beecher would stand it admirably after baking a batch of bread while Mrs B. was teaching Sunday school — in fact, he should know he kneaded it.

The Blue Kibbon Army is finding recruits about here under Colour Sergeant Steuning, but one unfortunate of the rank and file was non est for nine days and returned with a bottle very much of the appearance of " Mountain Dew." Not drummed out this time !