DACRE NOTES.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 3, 15 April 1893, Page 6

DACRE NOTES.

(i:v on; si’Kcialj i;i-:poktei;.) The changes in this district are not very great, nor does farm settlement or the cultivation of the soil make as rapid progress as it is doing in many other localities, the causa being that the holdings are largo and mainly used for pastoral purposes. The large tnssac still i rjvails, with other native vegetation, showing the absence of the plough. The Woodstock estate, formerly the property of Mr Basstian, is in process of subdivision and sale, in blocks of from 100 up to 700 and 800 acres. The Woodstock homestead block has been purchased by Messrs McCallum, the Pheasant Push block, upwards of 700 acres, by Fotheringham and. Loftus, and a section of 400 acres, just north of Dacre, by Mr Leonard, of West Plains. it rough ton, a nicely situated property of about 500 acres, adjoining the township of Deere, has fallen into the |hands of Marshall and Hons, who are improving ti e land considerably and sending a la.igc quantity of milk to the Woodlands Dairy '•’aetory. ‘Murphy and Hons have secured a, block of upwards of 700 acres, a 'great part of which they have ploughed, and partly cropped. The farm lately worked by the Messrs Herman now forms part of the Morton Mains estate, and further along the Dunedin road, as it is yet called, is the sheep farm of Mr A. It. Hay. The old Half Way Hush Hotel, so long kept by the well-known and popular Hugh Mclntosh (now of Wright’s Hush) during the sixties and seventies, was burned down some years ago, hut. the orchard that was so carclully cultured is still there in full bearing. It now belongs to Mr Win. McLellan. The travelling public are comfortably accommodated at Mrs Hcammell’s roadside house, not far from the site of “ Mclntosh’s Hotel ” of other days. There are also four or five small farm holdings, with m what is known as the township of Dc.cre, the occupants doing a little in the way of cultivation, together with supplying milk to the Woodlands Cheese Factory. Passing from Dacre to Woodlands, several tine farms are noticed, notably that of Mr King, where evidence or good farming is shown. Mr Forbes and others on this road are also working their farms well. Woodlands is the nearest railway station, as well as the market town of the country surrounding Dacre.