NGAPARA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1160, 5 January 1880, Page 2

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(from correspondent. ) January 5. I think by this time that we have nearly got over the holidays, and I am happy to say that, although all seemed to enjoy themselves to the fullest, I have nothing at all to jrecord that will cause regret to anyone arising from the customary festivities. As you have already heard our Caledonian sports on Christmas Day were a complete success, and I am sorry that my detailed account of ?the meeting did not reach you, afi® was giving you censure for not publishing it, until the friend I entrusted it to returned from Duuedin on Saturday, and ; handing me my letter back again, said, " I forgot a' aboot it, ye ken," and tW, of course, cleared matters up considerably. Occasional paragraphs having appeared in your local columns lately that have been put down to my authorship, I wish your readers to distinctly iindersjjind.that anything coming from toe is always headed or signed your ~own correspondent. mention this so that .they may understand*-*tbe difference between "a correspondent," or*" our correspondent," and " our own correspondent," so th£t my poor devoted head may not suffer for others' misdoing^. The crops about the -dißtri»t. . all doing as well as can be the late, faftavy rains, and if theMij weather we are now having we may yet have a-plentiful harvests >., i. <-■ I hopfe sgon to be "able the commencement of an extensi® 'to our present railway terminus. Thfrground has, I believe, been surveyed', aw a stim of money passed for the purpos&but I shall be able to enter more fully mo thiS" on some future occasion. *1 *