THE COUNTRY.

Evening Star, Issue 3245, 15 July 1873, Page 3

THE COUNTRY.

Queenstown.— The trout are very tame, ami they have now taken to the Queenstown jetty, aa a place under whiclx to disport themselves. They have increased rapidly in size, and are about eighteen inches long. The experiment is, therefore, a success. —MrW. H. Homer, the advocate of the Greenstone route to Martin s Bay, is, we believe, in communication with the Government as to the opening up of a road from the Greenstone Valley to Milford Sound. We gather that Mr Homer has discovered a practicable pass.—A well-deserved reward has fallen to the lot of the Goodall and Small party, miners, Twelve-Mile, Lake. After three years of tunnelling operations of a laborious and necessarily expensive character, they have struck under the terrace the old creek bed. It is, of course, very rich, and the party may be said to be assured of a handsome independence for life.— An action, supported by the Mining Association, will be tried at the ensuing sittings of the District Court. The case is brought by one Illingworth, and includes among defendants, George A. Barker, the acting bailiff of the Arrowtown Court. The counts are numerous, but the gist of the complaint is. that Illingworth, then in prison, was amerced in some 50s and costs for not appearing in the Warden’s Court; that these expense# were swelled to LlO, and that a claim of the value of several hundred pounds was sold for that amount under peculiar circumstances. In fact, one of the counts alleges conspiracy.—The question of Terrace v. River Mining is assuming an important position, and is likely to be pressed upon the notice of the Government by a petition which, we understand, has been numerously signed in favor of river workings, and that the mining associations have taken up the subject.— Mail.