COUNTRY NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3610, 17 September 1874, Page 3

COUNTRY NEWS.

(From our Exchanges.) The construction of Cor; oiation gasworks at Oamaru is urged by the ‘ North Ota*o Times,* ° On Monday there were in the Immigration Barracks at Uamaru 187 s uls, on over 100 more than the building is supposed to accommodate. The ‘ Times’says it will be very difficult to plave in employment some of the married people received ex Tweed and Parse®. “ German Mary,” one of tbe oldest inhabitants of Oamiru, died there last week. She had resided there for ten or twelve years and was a very active laborer in the distribution of tracts, and tbe col port age of Bib ! es. In the latter duty she has walked long distances with a burden < f Bibles on her back, journeying sometimes as far as Otepopo and back on foot. fbe Oamaru Harbor Board has accepted Messrs Walkem and Peyman’s tender of L 2,267 for the construction of wharfage at the breakwater. A number of the Wakatip miners have lately taken their departure from the district, bound for the Palmer, owing chiefly to favorable news received by private hands. Ihe f- hotover River is up. The consequence is that the river claims have knocked off work, amongst others the Hibernian, after a rather successful season. All the shareholdei ■ are now engaged getting timber for future r-perations. Rumor eayeth that the specifications upon which the contract for the building of the Shag River bridge is taken, provide only for the foundation of toe pillars being six feet below the surface, while the shingle is known to be double that depth, We Waikouabi Herald ) confess that we cannot give credence to the statement, to which our attention has been specially drawn. Wo (‘VVaikouaiti Herald’) regret to find that immigrant swaggers passing through th - district—whether from real necessity or not we cannot say—have solicited money from those they have chanced to meet on the road. Where employment can be obtained such attemp s to impo e on the generous should be put a stop to. Such of the male immigrants who were sent to Southland last week as are pi ughmen have found situations, and so have several of the single girls, at fair rates of wages One married couple was engaged for an up-coumry station at LBO per annum.