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Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1016, 7 June 1878, Page 5

Aht-' official 'telegram from Adelaide, dated Thureday/.'.says'the Singapore and Saizou cable is interrupted, thus cutting, off telegraphic communication with China. _£b Dona_d Beid has forwarded hia resignation' i to the Speaker. 1 i l The balance-sheet of the Waimate County Council, presented at a meeting on Wednesday , last, showed a credit of £47,050 12s Bd. A correspondent says : — "I have just heard that the Porte has sent a note to the Powersmaintaining that it cannot evacuate Shumla, Varna, and Batoum until the Russians retire, according^ to the treaty of San Stefano. The Russians claim that they cannot withdraw, until the Turks evacuate the forte esses." Owing to the illness of Mr Oarew, R.M., there was no sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court at Milton or Balclutha this week The Milton Council could not muster a quorum on their last fortnightly 'night 'of -meeting. So •matters stand adjourned for another fortnight. A private telegram received in Dunedin yesterday stated -hat the All Nations Qoldmining Company, Maestown, at their last cl-aring.up, had obtained 65 ozs. of gold from 40 tons of stone. Ws are in' receipt of Bradshaw's Guide' for New Zealand for the current month. The publication is a most excellent one, full of useful information to travellers, and the public .generally. A number of gentlemen in Milton have taken steps for re-opening the skating rink, which- was so popular here last winter, and which affords so - excellent an opportunity for good wholesome exercise during the winter evenings. Thb Australian Eleven won the Yorkshire match by six wickets.- - Our telegraphic column contains record of further successes. The team the Marylebone Club played against them comprised some' of the best of England's players. The English Eleven comprised W. GK Grace, A. N. Hornby, Booth, A. W. Ridley, A. J. Webbe, Wild, Flowers, Tom Hearne, Shaw, .Vernon, and Morleyf Ma David Whytock, of the Puerua Hotel, complains with good reason of the conductof some of his patrons. Last Sunday night he refused to supply drink to a traveller who already showed symptoms of having had sufficient for -the day elsewhere. This individual subsequently displayed his gratitude for the consideration shown to his health by walking off with about _220 which he discovered in a drawer in one of Mr Whyfcoek'a private apartments. He has not since been heard of. A meeting of the Fairfax School Committee was held last night at the Schoolhouse. In the absence of the Chairman, Mr Parlane presided, There j were present, besides ; Mr Parlane, Messrs Hyslop, John_tone and Gordon (Secretary). - Mr Johnstone endeavoured to revive the settled question . of the Secretary's' letter to a Dunedin paper, but j after he had talked for half an hour, the chair- I man left the chair, and the meeting and Mr John- l stone's remarks arrived" at _, an abrupt termina- ! tion. - '' " • X - We have been favoured with a view ofthe plans of the new Newmarket Hotel about to be erected at Balclutha by Mr Dunne, and can safely endorse 'tha-opinion expressed at. the Licensing Court on! Wednesday, that the proposed erection will be one I of the handsomest buildings of the kind in the Co- j lony. The plans were prepared by Messrs Mason and Wales, Dun-din, and the design certainly, reflects great credit on the -kill oi the architects. We ' only think it a pity such a building should be erected with such a perishable material as wood, And , trust _hat brick, stone, or concrete, will be used instead. Yjcstebdat, Mr F., Bastings, President of our local Club, was in communication with the -Metropolitan Coursing Club, and the result is that the meeting for .this district, which was to have been held here to-day, has been postponed until Thursday next. The postponement was made at the suggestion of the Metropolitan Club, and met with complete approval from our local sportsmen, as in the present state of the weather anything like'success would 'be an impossibility, and the rain showing no sign p£ stopping, a postponement for less than a week would be useless. The change is notified in our advertising columns, as iB also the fact that Thursday next, and not to-day, as previously advertised, will be a bank and public holiday. Thi usual meeting of the Balclutha Borough Council for Tuesday last lapsed for want of a quorum. __f ter waiting for half an hour, the Mayor, Clerk, and two reporters were about tor-tire, when strains of sweetest melody were heard to issue from the adjoining hall, where Mr Heath was leading his fair choir on the way to perfection, previous; to giving a concert in aid of the Athenaeum funds. After listening entranced for two hours, which seemed .only \as< many „ minutes, the, Mayor and Clerk reluctantly dragged themselves away uxthe Criterion Hotel to see what had become of Councillor panning, while the two reporters walked off pensively together to inspect the plans of Ifr Sunnc's new llotelon riew, with other uoveltis* at tke temponiy iotmnss, avds-etrset.

We are indebted to Captain Hayward, Harbour Master, Oatlin's River, for the following report: — The number of vessels arrived during the past month were 15, equal to 533 tons register, and 12 sailed, equal to 40(3 tons register. Six were cent to Dunedin, one~to Molyneux, one to Waikouaiti, one to Oamaru, and three to. Timaru, Eight loaded at the Owake Mill, and four at the Big Mill. The Edith Reid, Janet Ramsay, Owake Belle, and Isabella, are loading at the Big Mill, and the Fanny, Alpha, Jane, CatHn, and Harriet at the Owake Mill. The s.s. lona, for Molyneux, sailed yesterday, and the Isabella arrived at the same. time. , We have experienced (writes the Cardrona correspondent of the 'Arrow Observer') the , heaviest snow-storm that has been known here for the past eight years. The fall set in on the 11th instant and continued until the 18t__ Such a a week will belong remembered on the Oardrona. You'may form some faint idea of the amount of snow that fell when I say that horses and cattle are still snowed in, to Bay nothing of sheep; thousands upon thousands of the latter will be lost, despite the efforts of the shepherds, who have had a busy time of it since. , Mr P. Cotter had a -narrow escape when returning from the Arrow to Cardrona during the storm, the journey taking himjxmr days, and then having to come on without his horse. All communication has been stopped for the last fortnight. Mining at the Upper Shotover „is almost at a standstill owing to severe frost, and some of -the claimholders will ,be compelled to defer washing up until the spring. ' Stewart and party (says the ' Mail') expect to get bottomed this week. This is the only party at present engaged in the river bed for a distance of fully eight miles — a sufficient comment upon the dulluess of river mining. Terrace workings are progressing as usual. In reefing, the New Nugget .and Cornish Company finished - washing , up ; ■ for the season last Saturday, and r , will at once proceeded with the putting up of their rise to surface, which, when completed, will be the means of this mine taking a front rank' as a productive work. The time estimated for it is from ten to twelve weeks, bo that the company under favour- i able conditions will hare their rise up and stone i ready for crushing early in the spring. During the season now closed the company have had their '.rushing plant entirely re-erected and crushing the following quantities of stone : — 260 tons for Slots; 300; tons for 77ozs ; 270 tons for 88o_s ; 161 tons fordlozs. - -