INCH VALLEY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 22 September 1880, Page 2

INCH VALLEY.

(from our own correspondent). September 21. For some time past I have been unablo s to scrape together any news, but we have > not yet suffered annihilation. The farmers, t here have enjoyed such beautiful weather > for some time past as to have been able to make good progress ia the operations ot i ploughing and sowing, and now the nr> t: '■ fruits of their labors are peeping through l the ground* Thrashing of oats is being,' carried on merely to satisfy homo rer <}uirei»e»ts, and from what I hear there ' i will not be much oats grown for tho market this year. , The non-inclnsion of the Palmerston o Waihemo line in the schedule of public works has caused much grumblt'ig and at least one public meeting her®- j omission seema * inscrutable when c ° a ~_ sidered along with the fact that the n> was re<jowna,ended by the Railway mission to. b© a,t once completed. In . matter the. public wcirks' proposals 1 2 n > itjhe advice of those whom the Gove Went deputed to examine into and adv them regarding the necessity of the wo - A grand concert, supper, and dance held at Waihemo on Friday .» celebrate the opening of a new sicn ■ The supper was a magnificent and tn . ficent nflair, as may be judged from fac.t that the settlers in the school d's ijw"' ; contributed tux-keys, geese,. and sue in plenty to the general fund. ' persons attended from Palmew'om,. P®™ an eujoyable. evening,, and •Saturday nioruing. The programni . prised some very good songs. J " that the. result will be financially • factory. . ■ -