SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 265, 3 April 1874, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS

[The following, appeared in our edition of Saturday last:—]•

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 "Resident Magistrate's Court:, this morning, Bathgate sentenced 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 Tokoinaru, about eighty miles nor'Ji of Poverty Bay. Dr. Hector has been shown the specimens, and Bays if really found where stated payable reefs exist. . . At the banquet held yesterday, to celebrate the piercing of Deborah Bay tunnel, Mr.. Bastiiigs said that as the rims fell in the ' Grovernment'had determined to cut them up, so as to' settle or 400 families. The Koxburgh statements" emanated' from some people whoso 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.

: The sub-contractor for the Waipori sludge channel took the work some £ISOO less than the original contractors.—' Tuapeka Times.' -/

Such is the scarcity of labor'in the Tuapeka district that,' at Waipori. recently, 200 pick and shovel men were advertised for in connection with the Drainage. Ohannelj and on the morning decided upon' by the contractor for meeting those'' desirous of being employed','only one solitary miner appeared on the ground. The ' Dunstan Times ' of Friday last, in a sub-leader, suggests to the Municipal body of that town the desirability of taking measures to procure the erection of. Immigration Barl acks in that town, or somewhere adjacent on the grounds. That.,: as a central up-country position, the town of Clyde has no equal.

• lir reply to a communication from his Worship the* Mayor; Mr. Horace Bastings, Goldfields has signified his intention to: visit Naseby on Thursday the &th of April, on which occasion, we believe, the foundationstone of the new Town Hall, at present m course of construction in Li7sa-atreet y will he laid."

We ('Ross Guardian,' 7th inst) learn from Mr. Julius Anderson, who has recently returned from the Haast, that all hopes of thai; : district turning out a goldfield are vain. He was there three months, and "with manyothers 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 mais 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 River, near Hollands' station. He was working there by himself; fortunately a neighboring " hatter," called Sam, was aware of the fall, and dug him from underneath, The accident happened at 10 a. m. on Thursday. Payne, who bad 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.