COUNTRY NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3846, 22 June 1875, Page 3

COUNTRY NOTES.

{From ovr Exchanges.) Lamklnism has developed i'self at Lawrence. The following changes in the locale of the p( lice have been lately effected Sergeant Malcolm Morton, transferred from Clyde to Queenstown ; Sergeant Cassells, from Cromwell to Clyde ; Sergeant M'Gaun, fmm Black’s to Cromwell; Sergeant John MoVtun, from St. Bathan sto the Anow; Constable Prendeville, from Alexandra to Bias's j Constable Jones, frotti L'Uaedin to Alexandra. things must have been very badly managed of late in Queenstown if we are to judge by the following extract of a letter from the Secretary of the Education Boa id to the Clerk of the School Committee, Queenstown, and which appears in the last issue of the ‘ Wakitip Mail.’ “The ronton why t entered L2O was tnat the Queenstown poor fee account is so extravagantly high ; it is far beyond any other school in Otago of equal position and attendance ; in fact, it is utterly exorbitant.” Last week Mr Duncan Beaton, of Punkelcl, formed one of a b .Hue party to the Knobby Hunger, t-i Sn ip to deliver the country from the rabbit nuisance. _ As tho result of one day's sport they arc said to have filled a spring cart They' found these interesting quadrupeds in such abur.danco tbat not nufreqnently two were knocked over with one discharge from a. doublebarrelled fowling-piece. Aloreover, they we:e in such arcadian simplici y that when one was knocked over another would remain to be shot.

On Friday afternoon the contractor for the plaster work of the Lawrence Courthouse took a tomahawk and deliberately smashed and defaced the pillars, cornices, and ornamental work of the courthouse colonnade, which he has been engaged beautifying for some weeks past. The contract work was all but finished, and the plaster work was favorably commented upon by all who witnessed it. The cause of the contractor’s conduct was some disagreement between himself and the architect; The accident to Jeremiah O’Leary at Morrison s claim, Blue while-he was engaged drilling a hole in ft large Week of

cement embedded in loose stuff, for the purpose of having it removed, as it was considered dangerous to the workings below. Whilst so engaged the block split in two, and O’Leary fell down at the back, and, by some means or other not yet clearly explained, one of his legs got crushed into a pulp. The injury has been described by one who witnessed it as one of the worst of the kind that has happened at the Spur. It was considered by the manager and the men working in the claim that the position was not a dangerous one, and it was carefully examined before work was commenced, O’Leary died about an hour after his admission to the hospital at Lawrence. He leaves a wife and a large family. Last week Samuel Bsdson, one of the men employed at the Milton Pottery Works, in searching for a clay suitable Jor Parian work along the railway lino, south o c Milton, found a sample of true China clay. Having obtained a small quantity, he made a trial of it as ware, and in Parian also, which, on firing, proved an exceedingly fine sample. There is no doubt now of the clay deposits of the Tokomairiro basin and those subordinate to it, at Lovell’s Flat and Tuakitoto. Chalk is reported to exist down the river, in the neighborhood of M'Gilp’s, and, if so, there is a good chance of flint being found in the locality. The Milton Pottery Works now produce every kind of pottery work. The white glaze is all that can be desired, and the “body” of the ware has been brought out of an excellent color.