COUNTRY NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3845, 21 June 1875, Page 3

COUNTRY NOTES.

(From our Exchanges.) According to the local journal the trout introduced into the Arrow district are getting on famously; some seen lately near Butel Bros’, flour mill were nearly a foot long. On Wednesday last Mr Michael Hunt, late oergeant m charge of the Arrow station, who has resigned his appointment to assume the position of clerk to the Court in Nelson, was presented by his friends with a purse of thirty sovereigns. y In the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Cromwell on Friday, a case of no ordinary interest , be i ea r d > a criminal iniformation for libel, the defendant being J i( rnes Aitchison the. complainant, Mr Kdwnrd Alfred Drury A correspondent from Skipper’s Creek informs the Arrow Observer’ that there has been another washing up at Southberg’s ■claim; 1701oads of quart* being crushed with a result of 1270z5. lOdwts. A Switzers corespondent of the ‘Tuapeka Times says 1 I am informed that John Mor-

rison, who was supposed to have perished in a snowstorm at the Upper Waikaia last year, was seen, alive and well, harvesting atOaraarua few months back. I cannot vouch for the truth of this report, though it is generally believed here, particularly by those who know him best, who say it was not the first freak of the same n iture that worthy had displayed. A sad and fatal accident occurred on board the steamer Antrim, at Queenstown, ou Friday morning last. A man named Smith, who was going to the head of Lake Wakatip to cut timber, was eating some meat, when one of the pieces stuck in bis throat'and choked him. An inquest was held the same day, and a verdict of “ accidental death ” returned. The size of the piece of meat taken from hjs throat is given as two inches broad and an inch thick.