General Intelligence.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 195, 5 April 1878, Page 6

General Intelligence.

I The Governor will shortly vis:t the Hot, Lakes at Rotorua. p Mr Gordon, the Victorian engineer, comes over next week to report upon a water supply fbr Invercargill. His fee \ is eight guineas a day. jj Rev. , J. Upton Davis, having lost his ij voice, litts been ordered by his medical | advisers to visit Australia for a month j or two. . j Fresh discoveries of tin have been made, iv Tasmania. They are ot a valuable character, and it is expected : that the new find will rival that of -.J Mount Bischoff. Veiy heavy rains have fallen in South M Australia, and great floods have oc- .; curred in the far north. In some places as much as 4in,, and in others 6in., of * rain have fallen. ••' At last meeting of the Wallace County Council, it was resolved that members be paid travelling expenses at ' the rate of one shilling per mile one I way. ...j The Com Exchange Committee have ] resolved to form a limited liability com- - ] pany for erecting ancl managing grain -J stores in various parts of Canterbury for the convenience of fanners. Rewi has sent a letter to the \ j Governor regretting he did not see him at Waikato. He invites the Governor f to come to Orakau, where the last fight.:,-;, took place, and shake hands. The political crisis in Melbourne's "J. ended, the Legislative Council having . a creed to pass the Payment to Members Bill. Thus the Berry Government have come out, ofthe struggle victorious, and "y the Council humiliated. A painter named Robert M'Pherson fell from a ladder a distance of 20 feet at M'Leod's soap works, Dunedin, on ' ; i Tuesday. He was conveyed to the y,4 Hospital, where it was found that he / lud received severe internal injuries. * ' On dif, that, Mr De. Lautour intends _ ;;; very shortly to leave the Mount Ida district to proceed to Napier, where, ■' (■•ays the N. .0. Times), he goes to study > .-. law undet- the guidance of Mr Rees, M N.R. Tt is understood that Mr De ~"i I .amour will not resign his seat. -y The Arrow Observer states that Mr [T J. Finn bas instructed bis solicitors, } - Messrs Macassey, Kettle, and Bridges, -, ; to take out three writs, for £2,0C0 damages each, against -Warden Stratford. The actions rise out of the scene 1 thau occurred in the Warden's Court at I Macctown last week. [ Hamer, the Bank agent at Hokitilf '( 'J has been sentenced to five years' pt' \''y servitude, He is 28 years of age, anu *% was in sole charge of the agency. He aJ. ofta-ed no defence, and called no one to '*':} speak as to his character. The Inspector; ;-| of the Bank stated that the amount of .... J defalcations was about L3OOO, and were' ',! described as a most infamous fraud, -~ -J§ tm^mßmmosmmmEtmmmmmmmmmmmmma