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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 165, 3 May 1872, Page 3

T&eeeton. —Steps are taken by the Government to extend the line of telegraph from G-reyrnouth to Eeefton, a distance of ;aT)outforty, ; miles;/ Mbsti if not all, of the line wiU "be through heavily timbered country* bush clearing, a work of considerable cost and labor, will have to be done. This, during the winter season,, cannot be managed quickly, and the line will probably not be opened earlier than six months hence. Tenders for felling the bush have,been invited, and to be, opened to-day; and no time will be lost in letting a contract, lieefton is rapidly increasing in size, and will doubtless ere long rival the Thames in the yield of its claims. The reefs are said to be remarkably rich, and of immense By next summer it is confidently expected that many thousands of miners will be at work in the district. The country is covered with heavy birch and pine bush. As yet there are no sawmills erected, but hand sawyers are at work making good wages, timber being 30s the hundred feet. As instancing one of the anomalies sometimes found on new goldfields, the Post mentions that while the rate of labor at Eeefton is 15s a day, beef is sold at 4d per pound. tNTEBESTrN"G.—We are to have another breach of promise case shortly i The Tuapeka Times is our authority for saying that a lady and gentleman, until recently resident in the Tuapeka district, will shortly figure in the Supreme Court as plaintiff and defendant respectively, in a breach of promise case. The defendant is a stockrider, and the plaintiff is a " help." The former had a legacy of a considerable amount left hi in, and vvas "about"proceeding to Australia to take possession of it, when an embargo was laid on him by the fair one, and he was compelled to find sureties to the amount of L 350 for his appearance at the trial.