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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 292, 3 October 1874, Page 3

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SUPPLLMhNTAivY TELKQ-RAMs

(From our own correspondent). Dunedin, Friday, 8 p.m. The Tararua took forty hours in going to the Bluff, so it is doubtful if she will catch the Suez mail. :. • M'Menamin's tender for the Mataura contract of the Mataura-Clutha line was ac- ! cepted at £19,588. A letter W'S published in the Canterbury Press this morning, from a man : named f mythe, stating he had captured two live moaa at Browning's Pass on 'eptember 2Gth. Smvthe. states that, -when near the top of.the saddle, the dogs suddenly set off at a great pace, and . commenced barking furiously. He followed, and, after going a short distance, saw two large birds. Seeing that the docs were getting the worst of the'tight, he ran back and cooeeyed to his man,. He got

the tether rope, andj under the shelter of a small patch of bush, got behind the? largest bird, and roped it. At the first east,., contrary to expectation, the larger bird did not show fright to any great extent —the smaller one remaining quietly by. The largt rbird remained tied to the tree for two days ; when, with the assistance of Trampton's step, herds, he took the old bird to the camp, the young one following. The old bird is eigLt feet high, the young one five. Smythe intends starting for Christehurch on Thursday.

We understand (says a coutemporary) that the various runholdors in the interior districts :-f the Province have agreed to pay at the rate ■ 17a. 6<l. per hundred for shearing this srsso*. Last year the rates were 20s. in the northern portions of Otago, whereas they were from las. to 17s. 6d. in the southern - but men are more plentifnl- this year than last, and as shearing in Au.-trai'aiaakoe.- rli.'r, larger numbers of shearers from, that quai-ioi will arrive in November than formerly, so that the terms proposed by :he riinholders in the Dnustan district wi:l probably be tha highest oifered in the province. The application of Joseph Packman to purchase a small strip of land—containing about two poles—at the end of his livery stable in. Earn-street, was heard yesterday by the District Land Officer, Mr. W. L. Bailey appearing for the applicant. Mr. Brown, the Public Works Resident Engineer, reported that it was adjoining the freehold already held by the applicant, and could not in any way interfere with the proposed tail race up J\oaeL'a Gully from the main tail race. Li his opinion a space of forty feet would intervene. The District Land Officer stated that the Secretary to the Miners' -Association informed him his Committee had no objectioa to the application, which was accordingly recommended .

Thb ' Tuapeka .Times' gives the account Mr. G-. F. C. Browne's accident.-- " The accident appears to hare happened in this way: On returning to th e pit "vr ith an em pty waggon, the horse bolter), when Mr. Browne, wlio was driving at the time, leapt from fcke shafts to catch hold of the beast, but in doingso stumbled and fe.l, and the dray passi-d over his back. Dr. Halley who was at on 03 sent for, was soon in attendar-ce, and di.l «-hat- he could to alleviiite the sufferer. The injuries done !o fche. must have been of a very serious nature, as tlie lower port tons of Mr. Browiie's body were completely paralysed. On Thursday uioruirijf (Uk- ji-lth. ni' > he Was somewhat easier,. mid vrus- able . to. ~ move one of his feef;but yesterday, "he- inarfo - ■lirtle ot no progress towards recovery."—TijT ii s isaae of the 30tli. our contemporary states: ,r Dr. Halley informs us that Mr; fi. F. C. Browne, of Waitahuna, who met Witlian accident last week, "makes little ot no. progresato yards recoveryj"

In its issue of.- -the -2nd insf.. the 'Dunstan Times' writes:—"Mr. Clarke iB-doubtless quite right when he says that things are so arranged that parties and interests get pretty well what they like, while country constituencies suffer. Mr. Clarke has, however, been a very efficient member, and seems to have obtained a very fair share of the spoil for his constituents, as, looking over the and Proceedings' of the last session, he secured a reasonable- proportion, of. what ha asked for; and we'ean scarcely see, considering, that, after having served two sessions in the Council and got initiated into Provincial politics, he can benefit his constituents by resigning. Country districts obtain but a very small share of-the public expenditure to which they should be entitled. The chief of the revenue is expended about Dunedin and its vicinity,; and being strong in votes, parties representing those interests are able to. obtain just what they fancy they wank Since the large railway expenditure has been commenced, the importance of town interests have been magnified to an alarming extent, the up-country being almost ignored. But this artificial state of affairs will not last for ever; while, to. provide employment for therailways when finished, -the country must at least be prosperous. - There is uo doubt but our. value will be appreciated some something'like a literal rendering of the old" fable of ' The Belly and its Members' maymake itself disagreeably felt at a very inconvenient season."