OTAMA.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 360, 27 May 1884, Page 3

OTAMA.

■'•' ♦'■ 1 -T" j (From our own Correspondent.) ' { I have just taken up my .pencil to let you know that, although slumbering, we are not quite dead. • • • • \ It has been rather a busy time here of-, late. Our quietude was disturbed a' few weeks since by the presence , in our midst of a gentleman in blue from Gore, ih company with a female detective, in search of some missing drapery. 'I, got quite a shock, for although we are poor I thought we were honest. As there was no trace of anything to lead to suspicion I think so.still and cannot imagine what raised the"' ' fttibbiib/ • ! The harvest is all settled and threshing well forward. The grain is I think, as a -rule, a better sample than that of last year. The oats especially, are a better color. . Wheat is soft and consequently but little threshed yet. The " yield $p ; er acre, although very "good, is not up td .last 'year's,- but priqes for! oats are better^ which will help to -make up for deficiency in quantity. „,•'- . ■ < ■ „A s .you- are aware our minister, ..the Rev. "W. Wright, .Jias. been. holding evant gelistic meetikgs thrbu'ghoiit his district^ Otama had its turn ; the gatherings werej large and' the results encouraging. M^ Wright- was listened to with marked, , at j tention, so ; also were ; tfyose gentlemen who came to assist him in his good work]