HAMILTON.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 239, 3 October 1873, Page 3

HAMILTON.

(Fronva. correspondent.) ' Baring the' last week it has been very stormy here, bat I am happy to report that there lias been no damage. 'Every oneseem 3to b3 busily engage:! at work, and I ; hear that the 'Perseverance Company have taken up mora ground at the Shepherd's tLut. They are .shortly going to cut their head race out. The Taieri river is still vjry high, but I it is to be hop 3d that ifc will soon go down,' as there are many' young men talking about going over to Mount Ida at the Spring Meeting. If the, river keeps up.it will be impossible for them to cross. Looking over your paper, correspondents seem to agree that the prospects at Shepherd's Hut are good; so good, indeed, - that I would have thought six days a week would have been sufficient on which to work. . -

■; Our sporting men were out rabbit shooting on Saturday, and returned home in the evening well satisfied with their day's sport, having a bag of twenty-four rabbits. There, has been a great talk of getting a. bridge across the Taieri: tlie soorisr we get ons~the better, as-accidents are sure to-occur until a safe crossing is provided. A man called Clark wa? drowned while crossing in a boat at Hyde last 'Saturday; but, no doubt, you will hear fuller particulars direct'from Hyds about the sa l accident. ■