LATEST NEWS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 264, 28 March 1874, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

STJPPLIiMENTAKY"TELEGRAMS.

Dunedin, Friday, 8.30 p.m. Payable gold has been struck on the rail /way works in the vicinity of Clark's Flat. In the Kesident Magistrate's Court, this morning, Bathgate sentenced Belcher, the ■well-known bookmaker, to a month's imprisonment for assaulting a man who refused to pay a bet. .._'.'

The case against Drake, Belcher's partner, was squared. The Champion Outrigger Race, for £l5O a-side, was rowed at Kaiapoi to-day. The Westland boat won by two lengths; two Wellington boats were second and third, and Kaiapoi boat fourth. At the Taupo natives' meeting the Governor advised the natives against selling land indiscriminately, and told them they should reserve sufficient for their children.

Advices, from G-isborne, Poverty Bay, state that rich gold bearing quartz has been found at Tokomaru, about eighty miles nor'.h of Poverty Bay. Dr. Hector has been'shown the specimens, and says if really found' where stated payable reefs exist.

At'.the banquet held yesterday to celebrate the piercing of Deborah .Bay tunnel, Mr. Bastings said that as the runs fell in the Government had determined to cut them up, so as to, settle 300 or 400 families. The Roxburgh statements emnnated from some people whose business was kept up through and by local commotion, and men occupying respectable positions did not scruple to tell a lie in endeavoring to show that the., Government were not desirous of opening up the lands. As.fast as the General Government constructed main lines so fast would the Provincial Government construct branchlets..

We ('Rosb Guardian,' 7th inst.) learn from Mr. Julius Anderson, who has recently returned from the Haast, that all hopeß of that district turning out a goldfield are vain. He was there three months, and with many others prospected the surrounding country well. It is too barren to yield gold, the bed rock being to near the surface. Mr. Anderson and two others got eight ounces of gold for their three months' work, and were considered lucky, as-many other parties got nothing at all.

A man named Daniel Augustensen was last night brought in by his former companion, Payne, suffering from the effects of a fall of earth while working in his claim on the Manuherikia Biver, near Rollands' station. He was working there by himself; fortunately a neighboring "hatter," called Sam, was aware of thef fall, and dug him from underneath, The accident happened at 10 a. m. on Thursday. Payne, who had been sent for from Rough Ridge, brought the sufferer into the District Hospital. Dr. Dick found the injury was severe concussion of the spine, with indications of paralysis.