Country News

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 49, 3 March 1894, Page 12

Country News

¥OTOK The farmers bordering' on the New Hiver have suffered very considerably during - the late floods —more particularly Mr Shaw and Mr Jas. Hamilton. The most of the latter’s crop in .stoolc in one paddock—a large one—was almost complelely cleared. Mr W. Keith, who had an exceptionally good crop of wheat, averaging about 60 bushels to the acre, had a considerable portion of it carried away fully a mile. It was deplorable to see the fruits of a man’s hard toil ruthlessly scattered against fences, all •along lagoons, and creeks, and on the roadways. It must be admitted that a farmer’s occupation is not a very enviable one at times. This flood, I am informed on good authority, is the ■biggest since 1878. The number of sheep penned for last Thursday’s sale was pretty large. The bidding was brisk, especially for freezers (lambs). The prices ruling as a whole were, however, on an average 2s a head lower as compared with the same time last year. While ■on this subject, it may be mentioned that a big and well-framed lot of lambs (Shropshire Downs), from Avondale station, were trucked here last Thursday for the Southland Co.’s freezing works. ,

The Good Tempi ars Hell their usual /weekly meeting last Tuesday, the at-, tendance being satisfactory. The programme consisted of impromptu debates, readings, declamations, songs, Ac. A. number of well-known platform orators are to be asked to give lectures on Prohibition-prior to the electipn. It is scarcely possible that there will be a reduction in the number of our hotels (three). All of them I must say, impartially speaking, are conducted very satisfactorily.

Parties in search of A 1 furniture have no occasion to go outside the township, as we have in Mr A. Brasset a most painstaking, energetic, and thoroughly competent tradesman, capable of executing orders from the smallest item of furniture to that of house-building.