COUNTRY NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3729, 4 February 1875, Page 3

COUNTRY NOTES.

(From our Exchanges.)

A man named Peter Young, was on Saturday last sent to prison for two months, with hard labor, for stopping a young woman named Collins on the street in Queenstown the previous night, and putting his arm round her neck. The man Gaze, who was injured at the Waikouaiti bridge by the pile-driver falling on his arm (though not supposed at first to be seriously hurt), lias since suffered most acute pain m his arm, accompanied by swelling and inflammation. Miss Eustace, recently appointed schoolmistress of Palmerston, has declined the appointment. A boy was brought down from the ivyeburn to Palmerston last week, with several of his toes crushed, through the wheel of a waggon, cauyiug five or six tons, passing over them. Dr Brown found it necessary to amputate the great toe. yeTt is intended to build a new Presbyterian church of either brick, stone, or concrete, at Palmerston, at a cost of L 1,400. Mr Horace Bastings had a narrow escape of liis life at the Switzers Freehold Gold Mining Co.’s claim on Friday last. By some mischance the winding gear became disconnected from the engine, and fell down the shaft where Mr Bastings was examining the works. Fortunately the ropes caught the pump, and were thus prevented from going to the bottom of the shaft, out for which Mr Bastings . and tlio workmen would certainly have been killed, as the falling lopes and other tackling were very heavy, Messrs Hunter and Strachau have thrown up their contract for the Manuka Creek railway tunnel. J A covey of partridges, thirty in number, are seen almost daily in the police paddock, Lawrence. Tuapeka Hospital has received a cheque for L2o from Messrs Neill and Co., of Beaumont station—the second subscription these gentlemen have given. A number of intending settlers visited the \\ aikaxa Hundred last week witii the intention of looking over the land prior to applying for it. beeing the rush for land at the present time it is a wonder that the Government do not comply with the wishes of the agriculturists, and open np large blocks of land in suitable localities. Mr Canuthers, chief engineer, arrived in Lawrence on Tuesday. His visit is in connection with the Gabriel’s Channel scheme. The wife of Mr Earnest Peterson, of the Blue .Spur, was found dead in her bed at her residence on Tuesday morning. She had been complaining lately, but no serious consequences were anticipated.