LIVINGSTONE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1251, 21 April 1880, Page 2

LIVINGSTONE.

(from our own correspondent. ) ....... April 20.. . ~' A' meeting' of the School' Com mi ttee was held on Saturday evening, when it was decided to recommend the.Board to "appoint Mr. Sinclair as headmaster of the school. I anticipate he will prove a yery suitable person. I obser.ve that he has already acquired considerable command over the boys of Livingstone, though they are certainly blessed with ,a„ very exuberant flow of animal spirits. On Friday evening a concert was given in aid of the Oamaru Hospital and Benevolent Institution, got up under the indefatigable management of our County representative. The chair was ably filled by Mr, Thomas Smith, and here my remarks on that subject must close, for, unfortunately, I have no ear for music, and were I presumptuously to attempt criticism I . should : only display my ignorance to no purpose. Some new talent was displayed m the persons of : several new residents, and the pipes were well to the fore. I understand the coffers of the institutions I have named will be improved by the proceeds: to something \ over L 6. . ,

Our population is slowly but surely increasing by the addition of miners, who are intending to turn their attention specially to tunnelling. It is something quite out of my line to discant on agricultural or horticultural monstrocity, • but I should certainly be wanting in my duty were X after reading of the enormous gooseberries, and monstrous cabbages, and gigantic turnips, etc., to allow a description of a small parsnip to pass into oblivion without making an effort to see it placed on record, to wit, then, the root I refer to I saw measured and its girth was 22J inches, its length 20 inches, say edible for 18 inches, and though so large was • simply perfeot in shape. It was grown in one of the miner's gardens at Livingstone. What say you, sir, with this fact before you 1 There is hopeMaerewhenua will yet acquire fame in more respects than one. It is a pity it could not figure in the display of evidences of a plentiful harvest of which I read the other dayj especially as it might truthfully have been labelled " grown from seed supplied by an elder of the Church," and would thus have been conducive to virtuous honesty in business, lam reminded that the above is no solitary instance of a plentiful soil and beneficent Providence, as the same plot of ground contains many similar roots, and alongside them carrots to match. I am pleased to be able to report that the County Council are not unmindful of the wants of the residents on the roads, for we have had a visit from the engineer followed by a paragon of a surfaceman, who is making a great improvement in our road. The surfaceman employed here deserves his meed of praise, especially as an honest worker has ever been a rarity. Did poor Richard not say,'"the eye of the master does more work than both his hands." My friend here is never idle; watch how you may lie'is ev@P busy. Such men deserve encouragement.