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Evening Star, Issue 3790, 17 April 1875, Page 2

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{&rom our oieh oorrispondent. J I 2hS B,# . f ' om of Lewis “fTVI onSathrday, ; lotji inst. at about five o dock m the ,e veninc■•when a bag of gold dust- containing soz. ImWt. Ifltrr was abstracted, Two OhinesSafida smati nareel of gold, which Mrs Jenkias «labed in the and put it into the drawer of the gold scales without locking it up. She tWtSktt? * httleroomln the store, Which she did not lock. Three other Chinese came into the store 3u&t as the two who had sold the gold were leaving, and commenced to look round and chatter away after the Mongolian fashion. Mrs Jenkms left the store for a short time te get some tea, when she retumedbifiv one Chinaman was in the store. Shortly after she missed the gold, but did not say'aUythine aliout it for about an hour. On Sunday mom. ing information was given to the geant Hunt went out at once and searehed the suspected Chinese huts at Back Creek, about two and a half miles above Mace town*-. Nothmg was found there, and he retttmea W the store. He then, arrested tvvc of the China?' men who were in the street, Who Were the two out of the three in the store who went away before Mrs Jenkins’s return from her tea. Nothing was found on them of a criminating nature, and they were eet free. The next day one of them left the district. He is supposed to bo the thief. - On Monday night a pair of gum boots were stolen from a sluicing claim in the neighborhood. A subscription is being raised" in the Arrow for Mrs Jenkins, who is a widow with a family, and much respected. About Ll2 is already obtained, and no doubt L2O or L 25 will be presented to her. No doubt she might have taken more care, but euoh a thing has scarcely ever happened before up here, end storekeepers consequently are not on their guard. I remember a ease at the Twelve-Mile some years back, where two partners were oirrying oh a butchery, and used, to put their money in the carcase of one of the sheep hang, mg up in the shop, instead of. in a tuL One day a bundle of notes to a large amount wm bo placed by one partner, who went mt for a -short time. During his absence, tile other partner sold and delivered tha sheep containing # the notes, and when the first one returned it was gone. Fortunately the money was recovered. Your readers may this romance, but it is not Now that the Chinese are beginning to operate in tide une, the carelessness which has obtained on the diggings in such matters must bs changed to extreme caution, or other, and perhaps more serious losses will result.

The dray road to the Cardrona isbeing sunveyed. Portions of the machinery only iortho ntw turbine of the Arrow United Company* have yet arrived., MrJEloskruge, of the Nugget and Cornish Reef.Sbotover, is b Kill working and .crashing, -and intends to continue doing so for another fortnight or three weeks: in the meantime he is gifting the stamper boxes from Queenstown; and framing from the bush for the new machinery. Another quarts discovery at the bead of the Cardrona Creek is reported* the opening of the ' rown Terrace for agriculture is engaging the attention of the Gov«mment, and as .the miners seem to be favorable to it if conditions of entry are reserved, it-will tnost likely be dealt with this session. 1 >