WINTON.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 43, 20 January 1894, Page 5

WINTON.

The Good Templars held a meeting on Tuesday. Mr 11. Fowler was appointed a delegate to represent the lodge at the conference to he held in Invercargill on the 27th inst., in connection with the forthcoming local option poll. This gentleman explained in a very explicit manner the clauses of the new Licensing Act. Mr Francis Jack, eawmillcr, having now pretty well denuded the bush all round Winton, is about to invade a new area in the Forest Hill district. There are a good few hands busy laying tramways in all directions through it, so that in the course of a fortnight everything will be ready to operate on. The area itself, Mr Jack informs me, is composed of the usual well-assorted timber, more particularly the red pine, which is of unusually good quality. The English Church Sunday school picnic comes off next Wednesday, and will take place in one of Mr Shaw’s paddocks. Our lo»cal school picnic will be held on the following Friday, when the usual prizes will be presented to the most deserving pupils. The farmers are making the most of the fine weather we arc enjoying, principally in cutting their meadow grass. lam informed the severe frost we had about a month back injured the grass seed, in many cases very considerably. The A. and P. Association hold their annual meeting on the 27th inst.