MINING TUNNEL ENTERPRISE AT CROMWELL.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1486, 14 November 1874, Page 3

MINING TUNNEL ENTERPRISE AT CROMWELL.

MR BATHGATE AND SLY GROG-

SELLERS,

OTAGO SCHOOLS CLOSED TO CHECK

MEASLES,

DUNEDIN.

(From our own Correspondent). This day. The deep leads at Cromwell are coming into favour through the company's successful fishings. A gigantic tunnel enterprise has just been started at Bendigo to drive across half-a-dozen reefs, including the best in the district, at depths lower than has hitherto known in the province. There is a great demand for the shares, the whole, some f40,000, being taken up in a day. . Mr Bathgate strongly supports the police '& a prosecution of sly grog-sellers. There *as a strong passage of arms in Court yesterday. Mr Harris, who defended in one °ase, hinted that the police had suborned witnesses, whereupon Sub-Inspector Mallard Ported that the observation was ungentletoanly. Mr Harris replied that if he said *tat outside tbe Court he would make the frapector repent it. Measles are so prevalent in the country 'hat numerous schools have closed temporary- Two of the largest Bchools are now closed for a fortnight. The Tokomairiro Grammar School only closed after the attendance had been reduced from 300 to 70, and the school from 130 to 20. jNo interest is taken in Volunteering. *nspe ction parades lapse for want of attendee, an d ifc i 8 doubtful if all the companies Ml ualify for representatives at the colonial --the Times favourably reviews Sir Donald speech at the late banquet in

Napier, and coincides with his views touching the abolition of the provinces. cj/\ a .™eetlQ g of the Acclimatisation fCtl' i? WaS decided that manager o" the hatching ponds should proceed through a auanto7of 6nCtS n + 6Xt Week 'to *«MbK a quantity of young trout for the streams V c lasC increasing also partridges and pheasants ° yesterday-Wellington, for the Strlt: otag °' f°r via 111

Arrived-brigantineHelena,fromWhan2a-poua, e after nine days run 'with baffif^g