Makikihi. (BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 3, 3 June 1899, Page 3

Makikihi. (BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Since writing last, the weather ha*' taken a turn for the Better though it is , yet far fioui Peliled. Very little' work has jet oeeu done on the land this week, hut it the weather should keep fine, next week would see ploughingin ii.li swing again, tfuuners ..'are mostly bu^y earring their gram, soma to the lUilwny Station and others to r Mr Meehan's htoie. Polalo digging is also being pushed lately. The threshing aiach.nes reeomlueuecd work after the rain ceased,but thov cannot ""do a great deal, SO Y much time being lost in shilling from '- stack to stack and paddock to paddock. • They hivo liaid woikto set the engir.ei to the combines -when thov are a*'tt>* stacks. iv tact i lip.v* that the hands ! engaged oa one of the mills, struck the otlu-r day, on account of this | <leKay. The mill is at work again toilav, so the owner uius^fc have got ■» iresh lot of men. Mr Meehnn, storekeeper, of tnia tovioship. lvw opened a bmuch of his/ business ntMoi'\ en. Mr Biooks, ond ot his oinplojei s is in cLai «. *T!ioie j^ to be an eiitortainment here on Tuosriiiy June 6. Messrs Huston Brother., 'are billed to bhoV us *omo raaj\ellous bights^ peeps into the future, Kouil bio(;<raphieq etc There was a recmd rtfcndancf at the Choial Rociet.\'s meeting on Ayecb' ji^sday li'.t 40 nieoib* rs tinning up, ; Three of those came for the first thno.'' Five members brought violins.- Tlio>>, dnv ol ineotsiip, hw been fhang-jd from,, j^ridny to V/'idneLd-vj, the latte* day 1 being n-" -■""■ti^Tit. ' ' '