COUNTRY NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3617, 25 September 1874, Page 3

COUNTRY NEWS.

{From our Exchanges.) . Last Thursday, Mr Thomas Logan brought in a cake of close upon 1,1700z5,, the proceeds of a crushing for the Cromwell Company, Bendigo. The number of tons is not known, no register being now kept. Some ol the stuff was. poor, but a considerable quantity of-it, taken from the rich portion of the claim, is reckoned to have gene over 46zs to the ton. ■ The poorer stuff was that which had to be taken out in order to get at the richer stone. Our (‘Tuapeka Times’) Waikaicorrespondent writes as follows, under date the 14th! £*‘Mpßt of the snow baa disappeared from th 6 low grouhd, and there have been several musters of the inhabitants h**re to search for the body of Mor-isen; but the search has been fruitless, except as leading to the belief that the deceased must have got as far as the bush on his way home, and, when once off the track, it would be difficult for him to find it again, either by night or day, consequently he may have wandered a long way into the bush, which is very large.— deferring to mining matters, 1 may inform yep that the Great Britain claim has struck payjtple gold. ; Tije- Anglo-Swiss still maintains dj 3 as a first-class claim- 'I he Golden Gate has not, as yet, turned out as well as expected ; but there is a probability that there is much better gold under their floodrace, which the owners will soon be able to prove at any rate.—We have had a very favorable year as regards the weather on the nyer, nearly nine months with very little interruption from floods. A match has been arranged to, he run on the Lawrence racecourse, on the 30th October, between Mr Dwyer’s ch m Sultana and Mr Hill’s b g German Louis, for LlO a-side • distance, two miles, both to carry 10 stone.’ The match will be a very interesting one, as fhey have both raced together on eeveral ’ocCasiPns with different results. It is rumoured that Mr J. B. Borton has disposed of his interest (half-snare) in the Hercules Water Race and claim, Teviot, for the sum of 11,300. Mr F, Fielding has sold his runs Nos. 328 and 424, consisting of 50,000 acres leasehold country at together with 1,200 bead of cattle, 7,500 sheep, and ten head of ■working plant, for ihe sum of iVnf fT, T P tirc^aßer being Mr David M'Kellar, of Waikaia Plain. In reply to an application made by the ¥*7™ of Lawrence that an Immigration DepQt xpight be established |n Lawrence, the Goyerpmept state that if there is ary spare building the use of which could be had temporarily, and should there be any suitable immigrants, a few will be sent to Lawrcnce. The cricketing Season has commenced at Baldufcha. Sfirreyors are at present surveying the line, of railway from Milton to the Coal Gfclly* As it is not expected the Government

will proceed with the formation of the rail way at once, the Bruce Coal Company are about to lay a tramway from their pits to the flat near the river baik.

A meeting of the Church of England Committee was held at Clinton on Tuesday to see what could be done towards erecting a church at Clinton. It was decided to start a subscription li-.t towards the building, and 1 50 was promised in the room. The church, which is to be of wood, will accommodate 150 neopie, and the estimated cost is about L3OO.

rt number of miners are now leaving the Wakatip district for the Palmer. Those who left the Garrick Bange for the first rush to the Palmer are reported to have all returned to their old quarters. The new telegraph line from Naseby to Clyde is now laid as far as Chatto < reck, thirteen miles from Clyde. Stations will be opened at Black’s and St. Bathaa’s so soon as the line is completed, the necessary buildings being already in readiness for work.

Several farmers in the Wakatip district are now selling off their farm implements and cattle, having decided upon discontinuing to cultivate grain under [the present difficulty of finding a market. They have laid down their land in grass, and are sheep farming. A strong feeling is now evinced throughout the Wakatip district in favor of again securing the services of the Rev. E. Coffey as their clergyman. Those who were the chief cause of his leaving the district are now the most anxious for his return.

So much is wheat a drug in the Wakatip market at present, that not one-tenth of last year’s acreage has been sown this season, nor are the fine wheat-growing qualities of the district likely to be fully developed, until the Winton-Kingston railway line is completed. The snow was eighteen inches deep on the Arrow Flat this winter. The past winter has been the most severe ever known in the locality, much more so than at Cardrona, on the other side of the Crown Bange. A presentation to Mr Donald Grant, Kirkland, West Taieri, of a gold watch and chain, as a token ot respect from the farmers of Maungatua, West Taieri, and Lake Waipori, took place at his own house on the 21st inst. Ihe presentation was a token of the respect iu which Mr Grant is held by the people of the above districts, in whose interests he has a 1 ways taken a leading part