COUNTRY NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4129, 22 May 1876, Page 4

COUNTRY NOTES.

(From our Exchanges.)

Some of the Chinese working on the Tuapeka Flat are ' making as much as L4O a week.

• A Chinaman named Ah Coo committed suicide at the Dome Creek on the 10th inst. It appears" that he in company withthree mates (his countrymen) were working a claim which turned-cut bad. The three cleared out leaving Ah Cob : to pay a debt of lAI, which had been incurred by the company. Not ; being in a position to pay the amount, he took it to heart, and committed suicide. A verdict of “temporary insanity” waa returned;;

' His Honor the Superintendent telegraphed to his satisfaction at the promising reports of gold struck so extensively at Naseby. !His Honor “hopes it indicates bright .days in: store for Nvseby.” The Cromwell correspondent of the ‘Mount Ida .Chronicle ’ says “No less than five declarations of- insolvency have been made within the last fortnight. . Some of : bxfr imbrbhants' have suffered severely. One of the bankrupt’s liabilities amounted to L 1.400, and -there is some word, of the “Fraudulent Debtors’ Act ” being ppt into motion. One insolvent is said tq have got a mortgage on a house that did not belong to him ; and. also to have bought a horse on eredit, ahd spld him for cash. —Several mining agents, who always had a great deal to say-iiL-Court generally upon matters of little consequence, have been finding fault with the Warden’s style of doing business. One Charles Colclongh published a very strongworded letter, endeavoring to show that the Warden acted with partiality. His Worship was displeased, aud ordered that in future none but solicitors should be allowed to conduct cases in Court. As there is no lawyer in Cromwell, and only one attends the Court on Court days, it is oftentimes inconveniencing to suitors.”