THE COUNTRY.

Evening Star, Issue 3673, 30 November 1874, Page 3

THE COUNTRY.

{From our Exchanges.) On dll that the N ugge.t and Cornish Quartz Mining Company, Upper Shotover, is to be formed into a joint stock company, under the Limited I lability Act, and that a number of shares will be offered to ' he. pubhc Mr R Beeth tm, R.M., has handed us (‘Wakatip Mail’) the following teDcram, which we publish with pleasure, as showing that the Government do cot intend to abandon Martin’s Bay. Wc are only afraid that relief, or a service of this nature, comes too late. We do not, however express a definite opinion upon that point:—“To Warden Beetham, Queenstown.The steam-r Maori will commence West Coast steam service first week in December.” There la no truth in the rumor that Mr A. Holland, of Blaokstonc Hill, will contest the vacant seat for Mount Ida in the Provincial Council. The Cromwell annual race meeting will be held on the 29ih and 30th December. Stakes to the amount of L 350 will be run for. The Rev. Mr Jones, of Clyde, has beea unanimously nominated as the successor of the Rev. Jackson Smith, of Queenstown. Healthy co-operation has sprung up between the district committees in urging the survey of the proposed line of railway— Waibemo to Clyde—the committees being convinced that a thorough opening up of communication must lead to the settling of a large number of persons on the land along its course, and open up (by the supply of timber at cheap rates, immense, as yet unknown, mineral resources. Early last week two men in a hut on the Naseby Sludge Channel, who were said to be “ on the spree,” burnt themselves out in the middle of the night. Both got badly burnt—the one more in trying to pull out his comrade than fiom se’f-preservation About LlO a-puce in cash, and all their bedding and clothes, were destroyed. The following telegram from Blacks appears in the ‘ Mount Ida Chronicle’The Bank of New South Wales here has raised the price of gold to L 3 16s per ounce.—A public meeting last night affirmed the desirability of forming either a Lodge of Oddfellows or Foreate s in preference to a m dical club, by a majority of two. — A te’egram was received to-day from Bishop Moran, intimating that Father Walsh, who lately arrived in the Colony, wiT leave Dunedin next we k for St. Bathans. His jurisdiction will extend as far as Alexandra, including Blacks.