ORMOND LETTER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1329, 14 July 1883, Page 2

ORMOND LETTER.

(From odr own Correspondent.) Mr. W. King has now got the Ormond Saw- | mill in full swing again, having commenced operations on Tuesday, the 3rd instant. Miami Mrs Barrie gave a party on Thursday afternoon to the young folk of Ormond, in I honor of the departure of Master Janies I Barrio from the district. It was held in the large and commodious store-room just built by Mr Barrie, on the site of tho lute fire in Ormond. The children amused themselves nt dancing, kiss-in-the-ring, etc., until nine p.m., when they retired homewards. Tho approaches on either side of the bridge over the Mahunga creek and leading to Mr Skillicorn’s fell mongery, havo recently been

gravelled, a t’i-ng which greatly needed doing owing to the amount of traffic that pusses over it, and the disgraceful stale the read was in. The river rose a few feet after the recent rain, but not quite enough to satisfy Air McLeod as to the success of his work. He is only waiting for a large fresh, which he is confident will wear away a channel through the sandbank on the other side, and thus turn the river. People should be more careful when they want to poison useless curs and other pests, or they might get themselves into trouble. Somebody has been laying poison about the public road heee, and two or three valuable dogs have cc-me to grief. But here they seem to have a mania for killing dog 9, for the sake of their larders and their fowls, I notice in your issue of the 10th instant an ironic effusion («s Josh Billings says) signed “ Fanstantinautipo," in reference to this matter. Your Correspondent may ba a good Gardiner, but nt letter writing he will have to employ a better hand at composition than the ungramumlical Edward hae proved him* self to be. Fa ts are stubborn things, and in this case they are hard to get hold of. The fallowing is the correct story of tho whole affair, The dog was thrown over the bank into tho river, and it managed to roach the other side, where it got entangled in some manuka. It there remained in its half-im-mersed condition for about four hours, when the constable’s attention was drawn to it He immediately ordered the young man in question, a* your correspondent observes, give the dug the doom it deserved. It is to be hoped that another such case of cruelty to a dumb animal will not occur in the district.