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Bruce Herald, Volume VII, Issue 617, 24 July 1874, Page 5

Hamilton's diggings have 60 miles of headraces, at an expenditure of £20,000. The Kyeburn diggings have 60 milea of headraees, at a cost of LIO.OOO. St. Bathans' head-races are about 10 miles in extent, and have cost their owners about L30.000. We observe that the steamer, Lady of the Lake, makes bi-weekly trips between Port Molyneux and Dunedin. The woods of Groodwood, Mount Eoyal, Bushy Park, Pukitapu, are alive with pheasants, partridges and quail, ; Palmerston is truly a favored Bpot ? Clyde must stir up, as it iB prophesied by on ft of the Provincial seers that ere long the stores of Mr B. Naylor and the Athensßum will bo turned into woolsheds. The completion of the bridge over the Island Stream should stimulate the inhabitants of Maheno and Kakanui to agitate for another over the Kakanui. The people of Macraes will find the good of their peat stacks this winter, as there must have been a very heavy fall of snow during the late severe weather. Mb Hepburn, of Woodlands, Pleasant Valley, has established a new fellruongery on his estate, on the Main North Road line. The water and situation is admirably adapted for this industry in this locality A GOOD deal of 6nowballing went on at Mosgiel lately. Some of the snowballers lost their temptrs, 'and found their fists come in handy. Theie was a regular row which was only quelled by the interposition ©f the peaceably disposed inhabitants. The Shag Valley Quartz Mining Compnny have a very fine plant, consisting of twenty-five-horse power engine, ten stamps, battery, silve tables, blacksmith's shop. Their stona runs 6dwts. to the ton, and they crush 120 tons a week. AWAMOA, the beautiful eßtate of the Hon. Matthew Holmes, Oamaru, is gradually becoming an evergreen park, having trees of this class from overy part of the world, whose rich and varied habits and colors are gracefully blended. Mb Q-. F. Reid, whose store ia Stafford-street, Dunedin, was recently destroyed by fire, notifies in our advertising columns that he occupies temporary premises at the corner of Hope and Walker- stree t s. MAEttE\rHENtTA has about 150 miles of headraces, at an average cost of L3OO a mile, including rock-cutting, fluming, and tunnelling. This would give an expenditure of L45.000 for water purposes only in the last eight years. A EtrsTT dilapidated iron Btore on the northwestern road, which has to long been an eye-sore to travellers, is now occupied by Mr Barney O'Neil, late off Hyde. Mr O'Neil'B love of order and comfort, will no doubt have produced & beneficial effect.

Nabeby iB nbout to have a 60 mile Government head-racej at au expenditure of L42.000. Hyde has about miles of head-races* at a COBt of L2OO a mile. The Perseverance Quartz Mining Company (Shag Vulley), have a most complete plant, consisting of ono eit;ht-l)or8e engine, aud ten-stamp buttery, two sets of silver tables, 17 acros of leasehold, and two dams. They crush 90 torn of stone per week. Mb Clapcott, travelling sub-agent for the Government Life Insurance Scheme, has, we notice by exchanges, met with great suceeßS during his recent tour in the North Island. He is now in Otago, and will shortly lecture in Baiclutlta, Kaitangata, and Milton. There is said to be a large deposit of nitrate of soda near Moeraki. Our informant states that he has disengaged the crystals from the clay himself. What a pity the owner of the property does not avail himself of its valuable properties for his worn-out meadows. If waterworks were constructed at the Devil's Bridge, Oumaru, the fall would be sufficiently great to force water 200ft perpendicular, from the level of Thames street. The advantages of this water force would be immense, for shipping supply, fire service, patent hoisting gear, and sewerage. Mb J. Small, and Miss Fanny Sara, and Mr Clifton, gave entertainments at St. George's Hall, Milton, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Considering the inclement weather, the attendance was good on each occasion. The artistes are old favorites, but their performances appeared to be none the less acceptable because not actually novel. The whole of the eastern faces of the Dunstan Rangei are highly auriferous, but from the scarcity of water not moro than a tenth part is available for mining purposes. Those who have the luck to own head-races are all in possession of fortunes if they could but manage to keep what they earn. A correspondent suggests that to free the soil of Cromwell from fever taint, the Municipality must remove the town to the Crown Terrace. They then can sell the plague-stricken, but highly auriferous ground to Mining Companies, who will bring in the needful water supply, to sluice it away — these hearl-races will afterwards supply the new towu with water. The usual fortnightly meeting of the 80ns of Temperance, was held in the Council Chambers on Friday evening. This branch of the Temperance Order is quietly but steadily increasing in numbers here, acquisitions to it being made at nearly every meeting, since its inauguration in November last. It is intended to hold a soiree in connection with the Division, on the 27th of August, at which the Rev. Dr Eoseby, Mr Jago, and several other leading advocate* of the Temperance cause, will take a part, and perform the ceremony of installing officers for tho ensuing term. MiS3 Dakton, the new female teacher for the Balclutha district school, enters upon her duties there on Monday next. We gladly learn that this young la'iy's departure from the Tuapeka Grammar School has been marked by many pleasing and tangible evidences from scholars and parents alike, of the general favor in which she has been held as a teacher in that district. We have to congratulate the Balclutha School Committee upon their acquisition of a lady teacher possessing such satisfactory credentials of ability, and bringing with her the good wishes of so many of the community in which sht was herself educated, and where she has hitherto labored in the cause of education. Mb Attdey Badcock, a candidate to reprotent West Ward, Milton, in the Municipal Council, addressed a crowded meeting of ratepayers in St, George's Hall last night. The proceedings were by no means tame. Mr Badcock explained his views on Municipal matters, and answered a number of questions (of infinite variety) to the apparent satisfaction of those present. A vote of confidence was proposed, but by some mischance the curtain was lowered as the question was about \ to be put., and some fiend in human form threw a snowball at the candidate. Those present, however, immediately, in the most manly manner, carried the vote by acclamation, and the proceedings terminated. A full report ihall have insertion in our next.