COUNTRY NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3647, 30 October 1874, Page 3

COUNTRY NEWS.

(From our Exchange. ) On dil, an interesting divorce case is likely to come off between parties residing not 10® miles from Miller’s Flat. The Paraabaka was wry high at the commencement of last week. A traveller who attempted to cross at Logan’s Ford was swept to the junction of the Flodden Creek before he was rescued. Nearly all the sections of land thrown open for settlement in Ida Valley have-been taken up by bond fde settlers, who are actively employed improving their holdings. An official letter received by Mr J. C. Brown, M.H 8., from the Minister of Public Works, states that the £ngiater-in-Chief will visit the Tuapeka district duiing the recess, with the view of examining into the Gabriels channel scheme. The survey of the railway between Lawrence and Beaumont Ferry was completed on Monday. It is not intended to continue the survey further at present,. Several claims on the flat below Blacks towfisuip are on good gold, which is likely to be pe manent. The cluicing claims at Tinkers and Dryare now in full swing, l water being T he wa - er pollution case between AJj L.jcaicrd, runholder, arid Messrs Reid and psrty, for running .their tailing* into the creek a mvethe homestead, wi.l come on for nearin'- in January. The 'tops throughout the- iaterior of the Province are very backward, owing to the ]&!■* ficw.re weather. In many places early sown cereals have received permanent in j' ry. The locomotive now runs from the Chain Bills to Greytown. Greyt.own, East Taieri, has advanced in two years from two houses to the respectable jiambw of forty, Of those, seven were put

wp in the last month, one of them being the drapery store of Mr Henry, and three more are about to be erected, as the timber is on the ground for that pm-posi. Another parrel of gold, 200za., was I -fought iMo Ojniciau from Maeriwhenua on A ednea- ay^

Borne person or persons, for mischief or the sheer ii-vo of destruction, li;ive tmushed in a great many panes of the windows of the now iunui|flasts’ cottages at Kakanui. The police are making inquiries, aud we tnmt will succeed in bringing the offenders to account.

Lsi-Eridgesliave been sc'n within thepaiitfew days on Mr Edward’s pmperty, at the Tables, i -u'j. 3( ’ ne Wi * P :c ' U P dead, having killed itse.f by flyir.g against a wire feuce, and a pair have been frequently seen in a paddock, where they are probably nesting. Pheasants have also been frequently 11 shed in this locality, to which they have probably spread from North Waitaki.

For some time back Jarrikinisra in the Otopopo district has been in the ascendent, the usual pastime consisting in barricading doors, removing gates and slip-rails, &c., buc on Saturday night it culminated in smashing the windows and otherwise destroying the house of a newly married couple who were away on their wedding trip. The police are on the trail of the culp»its, and it u to be hoped they will hunt them down.

At the Waitaki Bride Ferry an accident occurred a few days since which was nearly swelling the already too long list of persons who have fallen victims to that treacherous and dangers river. It appears that WiJliani Macredie, a dravmau well-known m the Waimate and Oumaru districts, was returning from Waimate with an empty dray, drawn by three horses. Arrived at the river, too services of one of the Maori errymen were brought in’o requisition, who mounted upon his horse and took the rein of the leader of MacroMo’s team, and enteredthe stream. The ferryman’s horse and the leader crossed the main channel in safety and were soon in shallow water. No sooner* however, was the dr-ay arr.ved at the deep water than the violence of the curreut coming on its broadside, caused it to capsize,’ together with the shafter and the body horse. Maciedm being at the time inside tne dray, was thrown into the river, the dray falling over him and entirely en aring ini |under its body. There being, fortunatelynoriliboaidto thciray at the time ot the accident. M acredie was literally washed through the dray, and succeeded in making the land in a very exhausted state, ihe leading horse was saved, but the body horse, as wellfas the shafter, was drowned, ihe escape of Macredie appears f o have been almost miraculous. The loss of the horses is a serious one, the shafter being valued at LBO, and the body horse at L7O, The only intelligible solution cf the accidei.t which has been suggested is that the guide, finding the water deeper than he anticipated, made an effort to turn the leader’s head up the riv r thus bringing the body of the dray directly across the stream, and so causing the capsize