BALCLUTHA.

Evening Star, Issue 4179, 19 July 1876, Page 4

BALCLUTHA.

.... iFromjw om Corr&pbndcnf.) i: Balcxutha, July 18. Our little town, like all up-country villages, .usually has %omo object of attraction for the-'time being. Public attention here is at ''preterit confined strictly to matters municipal—the Mayoral election and the disqualification of somothing about more tb.au half of tho ratepayers. Thi3 has been caused by a'delay in the compilation Of the Assessment Koll, and the Clerk adopting the ;<jld roll to oompile: his: citizens list from.. .'The affair has actually brought legal opinions., into-eager demand and excited r a vast but this will subside again by- the effusion of time. Sir'SifouTs' Incensing'Bill meets with loud disapproval here and throughout the district by a btir inhabitants. The : Bill' is understood to be a death-blow to licensed victuallers.

It is rumored that we arc shortly to have a la%-Buitiri' the Supreme! Gourt from here. I Was, on Saturday evening, informed that Mr:J, u J}trane,:hotelkeoperi is 'about to prosecute'the iowners of our local paper for some injurious cdmments made upon him and. puWdshedf.-m the last mfmbor" of the mperv ' The exact amount of damages laid I have not heard, but they are stated "to run info thousands. '■} ~~ We *had a. -football inatck- a -short tim#-ago,*-Married- v. Single, which ended (to the eommittee or aomeone -who was boss of ifcas matoh-ruled) in a' drawn.game, which ; is r to' be- ; jalayed off at some' future time. Judging from the complaints ! of the «'.old fogies ";after .the match, lam of opinion it will time before we.shall get them out again ; but, 1 if we do, \. oe betide them j\Ye have an old whip now. .on the, rciadi between Balclutha and Mataura.. Mr Knox,' formerly driver between Milton and lAin-' edi'n, has again taken the ribbons .hi hand for Cobb and Co. A box seat with him on a fine day to the Mataura and back -the next day. n}ay borelis, ed, at least where the road is good'. ' ' ; " - ; Last-week 4&e Bev, MrPaterson, of Waihola, gave trs k very interesting and lively! illustration of Dr Guthrie. The lecture was given in the Presbyterian Church. It was well attended and well received. ©r Gillies itf to lecture to-night (Monday) in< 'the- A thenseum Hall subject, '' Preventive Medicine." : This is to be the firstseries : oi lectures on behalf of the Athensum.