COUNTRY NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3839, 14 June 1875, Page 3

COUNTRY NOTES.

{From our Exchanges.)

The squatters are about taking active measures for the extermination of the rabbits, which are increasing to an alarming extent. The Earnscleugh station has already secured a supply of ferrets, and same nave been ordered for the Galloway station. The shepherds on these stations ft is said will be supplied with guns and ammunition. The “Jeremy Diddler” or “Wanderer” referred to as having victimised a few persons at Clyde, paid a visit to the Carrick Range, where, representing he was going to bo employed in the Elizabeth Go’s, mine, managed to make a few more dupes. On Sunday evening last he passed through Clyde on his way to Black’s, Tinkers, &c. The mining parties working under the Dunstan Range have now a gt>C*d supply of water. Messrs Greeubankand Co., Dt'bread, are employing the laige quantity of foi ty heads of water in their two claims. The partv hal a first-rate washing-up lately- - the yield was equal to Ll4 per week per man. Sergeant Hunt, after being honorably ac-' quitted of some of the charges made against him by Mr Stratford, RM., at Arrow, has resigned. He was one of the oldest members of the force, and the Arrowites are not going to let him leave their district —where he has been' stationed many years—without a token of the < regard which they entertnin for him. Society at Queenstown appears to have attained a degree of refinement never before reached in Australia or New Zealand. We (‘ Duns tan Times’) are teld by our Arrow correspondent that the kilted members of the Arrow Dramatic Club, while representing the usually favorite drama of “ Eob Koy ” at the. Town Hall, Queenstown, on Friday evening last, offended the nerves of some highly sensitive individual. One worthy gentleman who quotes Wellington society as a model, was so pinch shocked at seeing the performers dressed in kilts that he turned up his nose (a pretty long one) and walked out of the hall, explain-* ing as he did to several of his friends that the actors were immoral. Whatever will the Caledonian Society say to this? i Two Chinamen, who have been in the Host pital since November, 1874. and February] 1874, respectively, have been sent to the Dun* edin Hospital os incurable- the one blind and the other paralysed. ] It is very problematical whether the mail Giles, who was injured in the Nelson Co.’s claim. Blue Spur, Will ever recover the use of biseyesight. ,