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SULPHUR oREEK.
Like other parts of the colony we are
experiencing a backward spring. Owing
to stocks still on hand more potatees are
being put in than usual on some farms,
which will compensate in the aggregate
for the lessened acreage on other farms
whose occupiers have become disheartened
through want of a market this year.
Early potatoes have not suffered from
frost. Local dairies are not turning out
the usual average per cow of the last week
of October, but hope to pull it up the in
coming month as grass has now taken a
start to grow. Paddocks of wheat are in
excess of former years and look well so far,
though weeds show through more than
is pleasant to behold. Grubs are taking
some of the pasture, but do not have the
destructive effect of former years, as
cocksfoot has largely taken the place of
perennial rye grass on seeded paddocks.
Clover has run out in an unaccountable
manner, while the wild daisy has taken its
place, which at present gives the fields the
look of the old days when white clover
seemed to be indigenous.
We are sending a large contingent of
spectators to our N.W. Coast showr on
Wednesday, also a considerable number of
hunting and hack horses, with a small
offering of Aryshire cattle. The lack of
newspaper publicity of train arrangements
has inconvenienced some people.
A. logging and clearing bee by the
school children was conducted yesterday
around the state school house on the beach.
A large snake was killed by some of the
boys recently, and Mr Thos. Hogarth
suggested a bee, to clear off some old logs
that lay around, together with brush and
fern where [the boobyallas were broken
down. and were a harbour for the reptiles.
Mr Ballantyne kindly lent his bullocks,
Mr Hogarth engineered the building of
the Afires, various Sulphur Creek young
gentlemen made the echoes ring by whip
and voice without so much as the orthodoxI
swear, which under Mr Ockerby's tuition
and jurisdiction is unorthodox. After the
fatigues of the day the boys and girls
were regaled with coffee, etc., served by
Mrs Hogarth and the Misses Ockerby. The
chairman of the local board, Mr Washing
ton Brown, pleasantly granted a holiday
after morning lessons, which were got
through early for the occasion. One small
snake only was found when "canting " tlhe
logs; numerous eager eyes scanned the
ground under each as the patient bullocks
rolled them over.
A saw mill is being erected on the beach
by Messrs Cameron and Templar, opposite
Mr M'Kenna's homestead.
The railway survey camp under Mr
Harwood, with Mr Batcheldr-a yetsng
Launcestonian-as assistant, has been
pitched for some weeks en Massey's fatm.
The survey is now complete, and the iner
are putting down thep rmanent markings.
The new line crosses Penguin Creek back of
the township, drops over on the slope
facing Preservation Bay, runs close to the
back of Mr Ockerby's homestead, crosses
Sulphur Creek above Mr Ballantyne's,
keeps under the bank past Nasey's farm,
and strikes the main road at M'Konna's
gate; crosses the Blythe river near the
mouth, tunnels the hill for 23 chains at
Von's cutting; in all crosses the main road
four times between Sulphur Creek and
Burnie.
October 27.
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