THE COUNTRY.

Evening Star, Issue 3460, 25 March 1874, Page 3

THE COUNTRY.

The Arrow. —The ceremony of opening the new Catholic Church at Arrow was performed on Sunday last. The attendance was large. The building is of stone. Only a part of the original design has been carried out, apd that kt a cpst Of about L?(I0 for the builder’s contracj; only. “ The' Bight K'ev.Or Moran, Bwhop'of the of assisted by the Bev. Father Larkins/ Tuapeka, and the Bey. Father Matkay, parish priest, conducted both the‘‘opening ceremony, and afterwards that of the performance of High Mass. The proceedings were very lengthened, it being close upon 3 p.'m. when they were concluded. The collection amounted to pearly Llpf), and taken With thO Ll5O given $t the laying in the foundation stone, it the pathofip laity have responded to the call made npop them with a spirit of generosity worthy of commendation. The ohnrchisout of dtH.—Mail. ' Queenstown .-—The population of Queenstown is pat down at 712 persons, of wbici' number nearly half are children.--A rumor has been current that Sergeant Hunt, Arrow, is about£:to be removed. We have been unable ,to trace ; jt to any proper foundation. It seems to. have been set afloat by person* the recent board of in qmwth&bas been sitting upon that officer’s WWUw w’the patter of G. B. Bond, and

also as to the part Sergeant Hunt has taken in education matters at that place. Sergeant Hunt has been stationed at the Arrow for a very long period of time.—The weather dur the past week has been unfavorable for river workings. There are good accounts from some of the M oke Creek workings, and from the Sandhills, Upper Shotover. o amaru. A communication has been received from the Superintendent, in reply to a letter from Messrs Steward and t.hurcb. on behalf of the Hospital .Committee, to the eflect that the sum of lr ) ,000 will be placed on the est mates ; so that in the event of the ndowmeuts b ing sold, the proceeds may be placed to the credit of the Institution —Considerable progress has during the past week been made by the contractors, the wall having been completed an additional length of seventeen feet, and the pocket blocks laid for another, which, with fine weather, will he completed this week.—Mr Forrester, inspector of the harbor works, states that oa the day before fish, supposed to bo salmon, were reported as h-ving been seen off Waikouaiti and Dunedin Heads, he observed a shoal of fish answering to the same description close to the breakwater ; some of them leaped as much as three feet out of the water. *—The Immigration JBarreoks at the Point are in & forward state. The building strikes us as being very low for its size, but in other respects as well suited for the purpose for which it is intended. The railway station is all but finished. In the meantime, the building will be used as a public works office. —‘North Otago Times.’