THE COUNTRY.

Evening Star, Issue 3414, 30 January 1874, Page 2

THE COUNTRY.

particular to ?v-® + boUt leadolaims. further than *1 ° .them; (ire on consujerably better than before * and no doubt they will improve now that they are freed of all disturbing wl S : The eluiceri “ / fc I ? le ? t3r of water, mubh more than at this-vtime last year. 'Smith 4nd party are reported to be doing wbll in the upper part of the Luggate. v Olivef and party,' in the Roaring Meg, have v commenced hydraulising for the first time m'rthatquarter, and the results are expected to be very encouraging. At Branch Creek, the Anglo-Saxon and Atalanta companies have just completed washing up the yield of gold being 520 ounces. The dividend of the latter company was at the rate of L 8 a week.— Cromwell Argus.’ C romwell.— All the farpiers in-thfe district between Cromwell and Lake Wanaka have gathered in their crops or are busy bringing thetn in. In nearly every' case'ah abundant harvest is the result of theirlab’drfi.—76id. Tuapeka. —Scarcity of labor from all quarters is the cry, and anxious inquiries are being made as to. how-.the harvest fa to.be garnered. Tuapeka is not better off than other places Jm this respect, although, strange to say, m&hy persons have left this district for other parts—some even for Camara—the wages offered there for harvest Nvork being very high.—On the 21st mst., Mr M. Hay, Government auctioneer, sold by public auction, in the Town Hall, Tapanui, the whole of the sections of that township, with one exception, from the upset price of L 3 to. Ll7 15s per section, r, The totalamount ; realised from the sale was about 1/450.' 1 There • . was a good attendance, and bidding was very Active. The new the Mataura via Tapanui and Switzers is uearly_ completed, and it is expected the line will be ht work in a nipnth’i tittle, land excitement /is very .throng in Taphnui. The large quantity apphed for, in comparison with what Is available, .will dAuee/sbtoe'lhddavenience. The residents intend applying to the Government, fpr the .establishment, of a, local Lapd.Uffice. ' Strangers looking for land cdua- ’ plain greatly of. having' to go to euchlong distances for information.- Wo are'infomed that there Are hiiie tenders lodged for. the Waiport drainage channel—At theßoxburgh Police Court on the 10th: inst., Patrick Mottiewaa charged by Mrs Annie Alexander with cwrinitting an assault upon hcr .with intenfc. Thebase ww heard before Meters.. j; ( . B.* Borton'and John Beighton, r J.P.’s,,who, alter hearing, the evidence, acquitted the accused.-— ‘ Time*. ’»