WOODLANDS

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 1, 31 March 1893, Page 15

WOODLANDS

Harvesting lias 'about readied its last stage ; leading in and. stacking is pretty veil done,' and already the threshing mill is making a circuit of the outlying farms. Messrs Perrier Bros.' have this year substituted for horses a traction engine for the removal of their mill from one place to another.

The local Dairy Factory Company lately sent from here a large consignment of cheese, about 14 tons, its destination being Dunedin, where, in the hands of a buyer giving a satisfactory ]irices the whole season’s make has found a market, thus saving- the additional trouble of obtaining suitable carriage to Home markets, and removing from the Company’s shoulders any risk in transit. The present milk supply is between 500 and 600 gallons per day. The. meat preserving works, while not getting the supply of rabbits obtained at the -opening of the season, continues to employ the original number of hands, in view of the increased supply expected to be delivered at the works shortly. The guarantee required from suppliers seems to have occasioned quite a scare among them, and led to the belief that the frequent downward change in prices for rabbits was merely an attempt to compel rabbitters to sign a guarantee which may possibly commit them to considerable trouble and inconvenience. It follows that they refuse to have anything to do with tlie local works, ■which is unfortunate from every standpoint.

hlever trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. Four boxes govern tire world—the cartridge-box, the ballot-box, the jurybox. and the band-box. A Georgia couple waited over four years for a good opportunity to elope, and just as it came the girl’s father took the young man by the hand and said : “ Speak up to her, Thomas, I know she loves you, and I’d be tickled to death to have you for a: son-in-law.” Advance Souxitlaxu. —There is one of our citizens who lias always done bis best toadvance the interests of the people, of Southland, and that is Mr J. S. Baxter, who bus in the past, and intends in the future, to supply all the, best groceries at the lowest possible prices for ready money.—Anvi’.