COUNTRY NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4225, 11 September 1876, Page 4

COUNTRY NOTES.

(From our Exchanges.). :• ,r; Mr W. F, r Downes .succeeds Mr Chrjs'-' topherson in the management of the Bank'of If. 8. Wales at Lawrence. By a fall of earth >n Haast’s claim at Switzers, a man named J. Bestherwick’s «bit {h was broken. ~ Thejijmn Maxwell, who so frightfully injured himself at Waipori, whilst in a state •f temporary Insanity, is progressing favorably. He is now able to walkabout, and appears quite rational. * ' At ! BaTdhill Flat, a portion : 6f the r -rtddllofatbjA phbllo 'held oh the 80fltnit]j’to consider M^Pvke’h,action, when ttie folldtiring resolutions '■Were, banned ‘•That the conduct of Mr Yin'cbnfc Pyke, by (jp¥ng f against the Separation resolutions, is ■ fighly and That Mr Pyke, by violating the solemn pledges made by him whsnhqiwas a candidate for the suffrages of the people, has for* felted the confidencesTof the electors - That -Mr- Pyke, by voting against a principle, which he said'he had held for the laist fourteen year*, and which he held when! a •■ndidate, and which principle r he promised bo support if he was elected'W represent the ry Dunatan district in the General Assembly, *,j honor to himseifandconsfcituents , rf ,fp s *B§jlw. , hlbi-fß»t and. gire ; thqm ah opporlenity to say whether..'they concur! in his Mysterious oo version.” . •; ; ! The amount of business ..which has been done in the r Bankruptcy ’Court for SouthJfcUd' irinco' thQ beginning of the year has been very considerable, as it comprises no fewer than forty'fire oases, representing a Money value roughly estimated ,at L 35,000. Many of the oases, involved only small sums, but two were so largo as between them to Make a , total: of I^,ooo. \ t The weather last week was very severe in file country part of the Western District. /.SPhb saytOn many*of the sheep farms and stations its severity caused great Mortality among the lambs, and in some intrtanops among the ewes. At A. and ■ J JT.Z/ Land ’Company's'property a layge proportion of the lambs born within thelajst anej. it is < feared that in some M the out stations the loss will be even greater. At’ Merivale station the snow was •vet a fpottfuckjandlayfotsome consider* ible time on the ground; and we hear that, In one instance, 1 ;tho .whhla’ 6f the lambs boim dne night died before morning, saAte&Jamrd, a man hanihdiFrederick Stone has been sentenced ■ t§ twentydays’ imprisonment for stealing railway bleepers. ; The second Preabyterian Church at Inver* cargilhas glVen an- call to the Bov. Mr Paterson, of Wainbla. J ' J ''