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Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 39

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August 21.— 1n common with all parts of the surrounding districts, we this week shared in the general experience of snow showers and accompanying rains which have swollen the creeks and rivers, and thoroughly soaked the ploughed lands, making postponement of sowing operations a stern necessity. With that wonderful capacity for recovery from all kinds of disability and set-backs for which Southland is deservedly famous either in climate, soil, or trade there are already indications, ■ that in a day or two at most, the toiling husbandmen will be at work again, and with the returning brightness of spring's warm sunshine, a rise in the mutton market, a livelier demand for horses, improved enquiry for oats, and the continuance of the rush for dairy cows. Gore is one cf the Dominion's localities where every prospect pleases Library. — The a-rchitect for the new Carnegie Library is calling tenders for the building, which is to be erected on the site of the present Athenaeum, at the corner of Main and Norfolk streets;, there will be entrance by a forge hall facing the latter street. The building, when completed, will probably prove more attractive, popular, and useful to the reading public than the present institution. Hockey. —^he final match of the season is to be played at Mataura on Wednesday, when the Reamcana girls try conclusion with the Mataura girls. This local club has attained successful prominence this season, mainly through the efforts of Captain B. Watt, and keen interest is being manifested in^Wednesday's match.