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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 272, 22 May 1874, Page 3

The c Cromwell Argus' reports another fatal case of fever at the Kawarau- Gorge. A NT7MBKE of the hands employed on the. Waipori Sludge Channel Works are leaving on account of their being paid monthly-in. T stead of fortnightly, as requested. ' The ' Tuapcka Times' says :—A Gawm" menb has at last been formed,, although .->vecannot say it meets with, our- approval; The--<3oldfields, to all intents, and' purposes,- urn left out in. the cold. Mr. Turnbull said, when the policy of the Government -was announced, it would probably be.found that the interests.. of the poldfields had not been overlooked -,_ but any Government in which, the offiV-es ot; the Secretary for Public Worts and Goldiields are dissociated cannot be for the interests, of the Goldfields. The office of Goldfields-. Secretary, if one should be appointed, will proveto be purely of an ornamental- kind, and weneed not expect any Goldfields member will be found to accept the office on such On these grounds alone therefore we ronnot look with upon, the new Executive. Late news fron* Martin's Bay gives hcißethat this neglected, locality will soon provean attraction, to. the miner and settler. A " Mr. Webb-recently came over bringing with, him a very fine sample of some ten. o£gold, a parcel of greater quantity having pw?-' rionsly been., disposed of to.a. trader s" t'-e----settleraent.. This gold was. got about four" milei below, Jamestown ;• but wo c-mnot- s'v~- - the- time occupied in obtaining it. Mr. Webb--brought word that the. day before- be lrft a; , " quartz, reef, had beeivstruck in a gully at the-, • back, of the township, by a party who hadi. „•. been : out eeling. Be" describes the s<one a»'j' rich, judging from,Bamples.whicKwere broken £r J" from .the reef;. but of course he could give no.''- ■'- information-as to the general run, of the Mr. Webb, who has since returned to Martin's Bay,, has promised to forward more "defi-nite"'-particulars of the discovery by first op- • ." pOrtunity.. He speaks promisingly of the amriferous'indications ofths district.—'WakW Up Mail.' ... . " . V %n ;,- the Durnfties: Sfieriff s. Courty the |Bench. selijatttia adv;emse^:" damages iiv;the ease of onej's3Blo >- to sell at one o'clock, five v