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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1906, 15 June 1869, Page 2

The English Mail, — The Eangitoto, with the English mall on board, arrived at Hokitika at an early hour this morning. Owing to a breakage of tlie wires we arc without our usual telegraphic message. To-won row evening the meeting of the M. 0. T.0.0.F. Dunedin Lodge, will be held In the Royal George Hotel, instead of Thursday, the latter being the Presbyte dan Fast day. Municipal Subsidy.—ln the Town Conned at Lawrence, according to the Tuancla Tt.-irs, on Wednesday evening, Mr Hay slated that the reduction of the municipalities subsidy was in a great measure owing to the extravagance d'splayed iu the expenditure at Oamaru, where Ll3O was expended during the year in deputations alone ! Such extravagance disgusted many in'.o opposing the continuance of the L2 for LI subs’dy ; and thus through the fault of the least necessitous corporation in the Province, the ColdfieWaLiaumcipallties are condemned to ;V;W«1 «*.

glad to see that all our members —with the exception of Mr J. Hughes—voted in accordance with the expressed desires of their constftuents, Mr Hughes was absent, and as the motion was only lost by the casting vote of the Speaker, his vote would have secured the continuance of the present rate. Meat Curing.—We have had the pleasure of tasting some of the mutton hams and rolls, cured under the Superintendence of Mr George Thomson, on the station of Messrs Service and Gibson, at Ashley Down, Waiwera. It is really an excellent article, fitted well for consumption on the diggings, for ships stores, or for ary purpose requiring meat well preserved and palateable, Mr Thomson shewed us some cured by the same process two years ago, which was, if possible, tenderer than the more recent curing. North Island Militia.—Erom a return recently laid on the table of the House of Representatives we learn that ia January last the number of the enrolled militia in the North Is 1 and was 8,382 rank and file. At Auckland there were 51 officers and 2,106 una'-med men; at Waikato 15 officers and 411 armed men; at Tauranga, 8 officers and 97 unarmed men ; Opotiki, 3 officers and 81 avmed men ; Poverty Bay, 6 officers and 85 armed men; Wairoa, 3 officers and 6 men; Napie-, 37 officers and 1,192 armed men ; Wairarapa, 9 officers, 334 anned men, and 111 unarmed men ; WelVngtoo, 71 officers, 1.189 avmed men, and 888 unarmed men; Rangiteiki, 11 officers, 281 armed men, and 30 unarmed men ; Wangamr, 27 officers and 551 armed men ; Patea, 2 officers, 22 armed men, and 24 unarmed men ; Taranaki, 36 officers, 632 armed men, and 61 unarmed men. Total strength, 279 officers, 4,SSI armed men, and 3,222 unarmed men. Mining. —The following reports appear in the Tuapeha Times of Saturday :—“ Our Wa’tahuna correspondent reports as follows : A new rush has place at the top end of the main gully, ab iut a mile from Duff’s Hotel, 0 n o ne side of the spurs. I believe the cla : ms are taken up for a long distance from the prospectors. The names of the prospectors are M'Leod and Carr ; the latter has been prospecting the last three weeks about here, and has a claim next to M'Leod. I learn that M'Leod has got a nugget two and a ha’f ounces in weight, bat I cannot vouch for the truth of the rep or f . I wi’l give you more par acid a-s in my next. —The accounts fromAdam’sFlab are very discouraging, indeed there is every reason to believe that the ground is a ' duffer. ’ A correspondent informs us that one experienced Australian miner, after wock : ug a fortnight, found his earnings amount to the magnificent sum of six shillings. Two mmsis, who came from Switzers with three pack-horses laden with a complete assortment of mining tools, were hardly more fortunate, the result of a week’s washing be’ng only thirty sbil’ ngs. Our informant states that he had seen the prospects of about thirty diffe-ent miners, and in no one case was the result more than equal to about ten shillings a week. He declares his belief that there is not twenty pounds weight of gold in the whole four hundred acres, and that men are leaving daily, quite disgusted at the disappointment of all their hopes. The statements of our correspondent are confirmed by a party of three miners from Tuapeka Flat, who have returned disgusted with the duffer character of the ground. ”