ST. BATHANS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 154, 16 February 1872, Page 3

ST. BATHANS.

" • - - February 11. _ last wt?ek, ; descrip■j "the weather at applicable:to that which we are- experiencing here—coo] nights; great,.heat during the day time, with occasional looking as.if rain was .. about to fall.in torrents within-another., jiiiiimte, but, up.to the present, all such* signs have ended ,in disappointment, and ,we are becoming .moat atixious for

themucbjieeded supply of rain., The i 3)un.-tan Creek. IB almost. dried up,- • /which fact ,has necessi t ated. some valuable claims at Welshman's Gully to ; <*ease w\c»r|cing,i,the owners haying to T -wai\e.t;heir right .of lifting: watprr from said,-Creek, iutime of scarcity like the vpiescnf, in favor .of the prior rights obtained" for the purpose of flushing ,out| : the.St. Bathans sludge channel ;> and, indeed, all the water now; available for that, purpose is by far too little, as the tailings at the loot of the channel ; are silting up so rapidly thai, unless a flo d i fiomea. before the end of, another , fort- ■ night, work may have to. be , suspended op.this side the. basin. On the other > side. Muddy Creek, .which., forms-the outlet for-the workings of Surface: ,H ill and Lagoon, is also. silt ing •up fiißt, as many of the springs., which heretofore supplied almost sufficient water to that creek for. flushing, purposes ;have ceased - to. flow. , It., caniiot.. be. wondered iat : that the supply, hitherto brought an bv Our ..water races has . dwindled down to small proportions, though the. Scandinavian, / having its-.soiurce ..in"the, head paters of the-Manuherikia, atill.carrios. a fine, supply. Hay-making is overfortne teason, but it was easily finished. There were more, waggon-loads of. that crop: here, last,year than there are back-loads for a man this year, an.d 1 may safely say the same uf the potato crop. . Hotutoe , ••artcd from, Dutudin. .are-sold here <-n 3d. per ll». .retail,fW'V-iie- it seems ..y u

pay 6d. for them. in Xaseby. . I, am .given. to. uiVderstand that the. , Messrs. 11 ally have almost eomplcf ed their partly ot ■. r\ve!ye ? as shai eholders in the race which they are .about tutting in from .the . Manuherikia,. and thafcthey; Avill soon commence to work at the,same.—A..B.C.. . .

FBIDAYj TKBIUTAHT 9TH. JJeSIDENT MAGISTRATE'S CoUBT. (Before E. JL Carew, Esq./R.AL) .Frederick Collier, a groom on the Hawkdun station, w-as charged on ; the information of Constable Morton with .'stealing from the wagiron of .Shaw,; oii the 7th instant, one pair of -riding pants of the value of-355. Convicted,- a«?d *enten«-ed<:to two months imprisonment, with hard labor } in II.M. gaol at Dunedin. - .Aubrey v. . Keenan.Abusive language. .\\ ithdrawn ; by. consent. • r. Vubrev v. Keenan, and another,: for <;d£'l2 as compensatim for damage done ?'by <defen dant <*.. jij<rs to plaintiff's pota- •! to crop. and Keenjui and another 1 v. •Aubrey, £lO tor damage, by cows 'to ; plaintiffs' oafs*. were sett out of: ; Court. •<'' • •

• Inder v. fßead.-rrf Judgment for plainttift*.for<£^l.:iQs,, and costs 225, "

Warden'B-Court. (Before !E. H. Carew, E!eq.>. Warden.) ; A pplicatipns granted.— Robert Johnstone, protection; John 0' Ketjah. fourteen days'protection for two claims at Blue Gully; Fordham and others; dam ; Mountain Water Kace Company (registered), bye-wash and protection tq a claim; John S. Foofe, water race ; jHobert. Churchill, water race

Mining Lease Certificates granted. - —-John and James Hally, for ; ten acres between Muddy Creek" and Surface • Hill, subject to covenants providing for.; the* rights of pccupiers.'of races through the land, and the unobstructed of tailings arid tail, and flood .water, dow*: the usual course, or that. the les-. sees make : provision for their passage past the la. Dat their own responsibility. i *

Agricultural Lease Certijicate'srrniited —George and j°l , « Turnhijl!, ,2-.)0 acres, hems: sections 37, 36 r 13,14, an' 1 21, f liliirk.. 3,' Blackstorie District : George Turiibull, 10 acres," being see-

tion 15, and Thomas beiitg 'sef'tiorfjiTliJ of the ;sa mef block. i=.Thej applications .ok. Patrick M'Grafferty and Patrick Toomey, for claims and: .tail > races,kwere refused on the ground 'oNfifonm/tlity^''?f : i