BLUFF.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 29, 21 October 1893, Page 5

BLUFF.

Lately we Lave had one or two scorching hot days with occasional showers, and this has developed plant life with astonishing rapidity. Gardens promise well, and meantime reward the labourer by their flourishing appearance. The first of this season’s excursion trains to the Bluff was run last Wednesday, and being a fine day a good number availed themselves of the opportunity for an outing. If the Railway Department would go a step further and give us the same facilities for visiting Invercargill once a week, the concession would be much appreciated. Cricket is now the game, and our club made a systematic start at practice on Wednesday afternoon. The members of the brass band are going in for long and continued practice, and having a very capable instructor, it should not be long before they give a good account of themselves. A pigeon shooting contest took place last Wednesday, and this form of sport being rather a novelty here, all those not otherwise engaged journeyed to the field of slaughter. The proceedings were voted tame and uninteresting, the birds with one or two exceptions not caring to fly, owing perhaps to their long confinement. The new Presbyterian Church is practically completed, and will be opened with the usual formalities to-morrow. The Rev. J. Ferguson will conduct the opening service. The two dredges continue digging away at the sand deposit, and given favourable weather, they will soon alter the appearance of that portion of the harbour. The wharf just now presents a very bare appearance, the following vessels having taken their departure—Othello for Newcastle, Vivid and Crest of the Wave for Lyttelton, and Jerfalcon for Maldon Island. The Jasper is busily discharging guano, and the Crusader trimming ballast. The Tyser Line’s s.s. Indramayo is due to-day, and after coal ing will sail for London direct.