COUNTRY NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3611, 18 September 1874, Page 2

COUNTRY NEWS.

(From our Exchanges.) The suburbs of Oamaru arc crow In 0 * n extended th * toWU boundar y williave to be Ssassiiißis^ja Br^SSnttSMft T.fc.SSSffltaSS!-*'* 80 femith ’ Who mot ™ th accident near the Big Bush a day dl ? d . a * twelve o dock yestermw 11 SLIS th w“s a yo “ n 8 newl y mar ried mefc’wit^ Hargraves, stoker, met with a painful accident at the railway

station, Invergargill. Whi'e cleaning an endue, he fell into the ashpit and broke his leg between the calf and the ankle. The members of a local Fire Brijrad claimed exemption from serving on the j iry at the sitting of the Supreme Court ai Lawrence. Judge Chapman decided tha their claim i f exemption was valid, and ex cased them. Cobb and Co. intend running the : r coach tance weekly between Lawrence and < lyde as soon as the state of the roads permit <f .it; and should the passenger traffic durins. the summer months warrant it, a dai y coach will be put on. The one-sixteenth share in the North of ®l ue Spur, was purchased for L 450. A similar interest was sold this week for L6OO, and a like amount was refused by another shareholder. 1 he latest idea for tradesmen in Lawrence who have creditors that are hard to obtain money f.om, on account of their drinking propensities, is to get a leading member of the Good Templar Lodge to proprsi the defaulter as a member of that worthy Society. The plan is said to be unfailing. A letter has been received by the Mayor ef Cromwell from Mr T. L. Shepherd, M.H.R. for the district, in reference to the matter of Distiicfc Court sittings in Cromwell. Mr Shepherd encloses a letter from Mr Reynolds, Minister of Justice, who states that the Government will take steps to institute regular s'.tt-ngs < f that t'ourt in Cromwell; bub wishes it to be understood that nothing will be done iu the matter for a month or two, pending the completion of new arrangements rendered necessary by the retirement from the District Judgeship of Mr Wilson Gray. From the ‘ Mount Ida Chronicle’ we learn that the General Government declined to increase the amount set apart for the construction of the Naseby sludge channel. They have agreed, however, to allow the original amount to be appropriated towards the deepening of the channel so far as it will go. By a telegram from the Cnd>r-Secre-tary to the member for that district, we learn that this will cause the channel t>» reach about the two-mile peg from Naseby This action, it will be remembered, responds to the burden of a petition which was sent from Nasehy to the General Government some little time Bather than the money should be spent as originally intended, the people apparently preferred that it should be spent in a deepened, though considerably shortened channel.