THE COUNTRY.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2293, 12 September 1870, Page 2

THE COUNTRY.

Information reached the police at Oamaru on Wednesday last that the body of a man had been discovered on the bank of the Waitaki, about four miles from Mrs Flicker's, by some persons crossing that river. It was much decomposed. It is surmised that the remains are those of a station-hand who has been missing for some weeks. Mr W. Fenwick has been appointed Town Clerk of Cromwell.

Surface Hill appears to be acquiring a most unenviable notoriety—another miner, in the piime and vigor of life, having fallen a victim to the treacherous nature of the soil. The unfortunate man, whose name was Robert Richardson, was engaged about 2.10 p.m. on the 7th inst. in undermining a fall, when the earth fell, burying him in the debris. He was immediately extricated, and taken to the Bendigo Hotel, where he was attended by Dr. M‘Cambridge, but gradually sunk, and expired about 4.30 p.m. The deceased was a native of Mnshill, Country Antrim, Ireland, was 24 years of age, and arrived in Otago in February last. An inquest was held at Tait’s Bendigo Hotel, before H. W. Robinson, Esq., coroner, when a verdict of “Accidental death” was re-

corded. A miner named William Henry, who worked at the Woolshcd, lias mysteriously disanj erred from that neighborhood. Report says that the poor fellow was not always of sound mind, that ho was “knocking about” at the reefs on Wednesday the 24th ult., that he cleared out from there that evening, and, as he has not since been heaid of, notwithstanding frequent search and inquiry, that he .must have perished some place cr other in the snow r storm of that night, On Sunday last four men, working at tie ranges near Bannockburn, were apprehended on a charge of cattle stealing. During the past t n days the dredges on the Molynsux, between Clyde and Alexandra, have been worked with poor success, except in the case of the Galatea, which struck a good patch, and netted about 55ozs. for the week’s work. The Chinese at Clyde recently sub cribed L4O amongst themselves in aid of the funds of the local hospital, The Cromwell correspondent of the Dan dan Times writes The postal nuisance appears to be cropping up again. I hear many complaints about the delay in the arrival of letters. Correspondence has only thirty miles to travel, and from eight to fourteen days are consumed in the transit.