LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 420, 6 May 1870, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We arc requested by the treasurer of the Dimsian District Hospital to acknowledge a subscription of 51. from Mr. John llalliday, Bannockburn, being the amount allowed by the R.M. Court, Cromwell, in an assault case. From the report of J. T. Thomson, Ksq., Chief Commissioner of the Waste Laud Board ai id Chiel Surveyor, which has been kindly placed at our disposal, we glean the following interesting particulars. Total Land Revenue of the Province for the year 18G9, 114,640/.-15s. 7d., made up as follows Sale of rural land, 53,973 acres, amounting to 44,279/. 2s 9d.; town lands, 1,063 acres 2 roods, and 36 perches, 8,834/. 18s. lid.; licence foe for depasturing stock, 88/. I Os. ; assessment on stock, 58,230/. 11s. 6d.; pastoral license fees, 560/.; miscellaneous, 2,647/. 11s. sd. The report points out the decrease in the total revenue from lastyearof 33,172/. 8 s 5d., and ascribed the falling off to the decrease of land silos, and also diaws attention to the increse of 6,000/. in the assessment on stock. Numbers of Chinese still continue to pass through Clyde on their way up to the Cardrona, the greater portion of whom come from the Tnapeka district. There is not the slightest doubt, but tliat“ John” must be doing very well up country to cause the great rush of his countrymen thither. A ra+e of 2d in the pound is about to bo levied in Hokitika for the maintenance of a tiro brigade. Repeated disaster by fire has at length forced upon the citizens the necessity for establishing some organisation for its suppression.

The Molyneux is but slowly going down, which is to be attributed to the heavy rains that, have fallen during the past week in the low lying country, and on the hills heavy falls of snow. From present indications we shall, in all probability, experience a severe winter, which will benefit the dredgers, who still continue idle on account of there being too much water as yet running; hut we may expect to see them all at work in the oourse of the next week, if the present weather should continue. In the District Cofirt, Clvde, on the 28th ult , before A. D. Harvey, E-q., Clerk to’the Bench, the following business was transacted :—ln re Peter Harrington and Patrick Minton. Mr. Brough, Counsel for Insolvents, filed petition for adjudication, and affidavit in verification of same. Mr. Brough also applied tor adjudication in hank rnptcy in behalf of the above Insolvents. Order made—first meeting of creditors fixed tor Friday, tlie 6th May, 1870, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at the Court House, Clyde. At the usual meeting of the Waste Lands Board held on Wednesday the 27th April last, an application was male by Mr Warden Pyke, to purchase a section at Clyde, which was referred to the Secretary of Land and Works, likewise, ah application from Mr. G. W. Goodger to purchase a block, consistin'? of nineteen acres, at

Cromwell, which was declined. Lite telegrams from the North, published in the Daily Timss, state that 1c Kooti is in a valley at the head of Waioeka G.tfge. This statement is confirmed by letters received vh Taupo from Captains Muir and Pre-'cc R paca his started from Poverty Pay, with three hundred and tif-'y men, alter Te Kooti. A scouting party, under the command of Captain Preecc, captured three horses a d their saddh s iu the Uriwera country, hut the riders of the horses escaped into the hush. it has been ascertained rJiat Talndiana Teketeke, who killed Hartnett on the escape of tiie prisoners from the Chatham Islands, has been killed at Opapo, The St. Kilda. with Mr. Locke on board, left for Poverty Bay, Opdtiki, and Tauranga. To the latter place she conveys two telegraphists and the materials for proceeding with the construction of tie line of telegraph to Taupo. A rumor states that. Colonel St. John has been directed to form an expedition to act in conjunction with Ropata and Captains Mail - and Preece. Mr. Warden Robinson in his report of the 19th April last, with regard to the late stri e at the Tlogburn, says :—“ The strike while it lasted was a heavy drain upon the resonret s of the district. Lirge numbers of men who, in the ordinary course of events should have been earning from 21. to 4-. a week each, or in some instances much more, wore idle Pome went away to seek work elsewhere, but the number of these was comparatively small. The loss to the distinct cm U"ver be repairs I, b it it is a very encouraging fact lo observe that it appears to have been most cheerfully lorn*.’' The total damages done by the late fire at the Grey is estimated at 300(R We are sorry to say that our old friend and townsman, Mr. Ketteky, has lost everything by the sad event. A n inquiry as to the origin of the fire has been held, but there was no evidence to shew how it originated.

The following bit of mining news we extract from the Sandhurst correspondent’s letter to the Australasian, which we he ieve is unprecedented in the annals of quarz reefing, and may he interesting to out mining friends—- “ The only event of any importance on the Victoria line of reef is the payment by the Old Chum Company of their first dividend. It is now some fourteen years since this companv—under another name- started operations, and si ice then it has been twice roi onstrncted. During that period the amount paid in (alls must have been something alarming, but success promises to attend them at last, as they have now a large reof, of which they take fifteen f et, the stone crushed averaging loz. sdwt. Certainly in this case the perseverance was remarkable, and the success no less so.” We take the following from the Auckland Evening Star ;—“The following scale, clipped from a Tasmanian contemporary is so outspoken that we feel constrained to reproduce it. The public exchequer is generally made to bleed sub tosa, hut th re is an honesty about the way they do it in Tasmania that is quite refreshing. “ The charges for general advertisements are as follows :—For each insertion, per inch. Is. 6d. For Government advertisements in Tasmania, (where no contract exists) six shillings per inch each insertion and every fractional part of an inch ; for Government advertisements from other colonies, three shillings per inch and every fractional part of an inch, each insertion.”

From the Daily Times telegrams we extract the following “ The half yearly meeting of the Bank of New Zealand was hel'l at Auckland on the 37th nit. The amount, available for division among the shareholders was 45,513 Bs. lid., to be distributed thus: a dividend of 10 per cent., absorbing 25,0007.; a bonus of ss. per share, amounting to 12,5007. ; and the balance of 8,0 Bs. lid. to be carried to the profit and loss account.”