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Otago Witness, Issue 1465, 13 December 1879, Page 10

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PBOVINOIAL. Oamaru, December 4fc&. Several of tbe large landowners in this district are about to cut up their e*ta f .es info suit-ably-sized farms, and to l«we them for periods of 14 and 21 yeara. Mr M.' Hester has already commenced commenced tha practice on hoE Toka JEtihi property with feres'; success. Many industrious farmers are preferring to lease fa<-ras rather than sink all their capital ia freehold* December sth. The Livingstone corraspondeat of the Noztfit Otago Times says that instead of the levels e£ the branch line being 160 feet below the proper level for going through the pass to Naseby* they are fully 200 feat bel >w it. The Railway Committee are taking action to hold a monster public meeting on the matter. December Bth. At a meeting of the Oamaru-Naseby Railway Committee to-day, the following resolution* were passed:—" That the Secretary and Chairman be requested to telegraph to tbm members for this district and to the member for Mount Ida (Mr De Ltucour), stating that a full meeting of the Railway Committee wae held to-day, and urges a special effort for tha placing of the sum of LSOO on the Supplementary Estimates for the purpose of causing a complete surrey to be made with a v£e«r to ascertaining the best route for a contiuuatiout of the Windsor • Livingstone liae from. Li ving3tone to a j uncti m with the Main Interior (Strath - Taieri) railway, on the Kyebnra Flat." *' That a sub committee be formed, consisting of Messrs G-ibbs (joavenar), Sto ward, Reid, Brown, Moire, and Sampter, three to form a quorum, for furthering the object fix. view, with power to communicate with the Government by telegraph or letter on tha subject* and to take sach other immediate step* as they may deem neoecsary for that purpose, to endeavour to arrange with tbe County Council, Townt Council, and Road Boards to obtain somax small pecuniary twsis tunes, aad to endeavour to obtain a further sain by private subscription." "That it be recommended to the Committee that ths member* for the district and Mr De Lautouc be respectfully requested to urge thafc the question as to whether the levels afe Livingstone of th* pr-went line from Windsor to Livingstone will serve for a continuation of | the line to Naseby, be inquired into, and thafc if the line a* at present surveyed is not being: tun out at Livingstone at a suitable leveL then that instructions be given to cause such alterations to be made as may be necessary to enabla a through line to be constructed, viz., frome Livingstone to Kyeburn." At the District Cmrfc to-day, John Wflhoft, for larceny, was sentence 1 to 12 months' imprisonment. In Bankruptcy, the certificate of J. T. Evans was Buspeuded for three months, and that of George Alexander Harris, late hotelkeoper oE Duntroon, for two ye »r<*. , Laweencb, December 9fcfit An accident happened ye»terd*y, toFnsderiafc Wedlake, manager of the Richmond Hill Conspany's mine, Waitahana Gully. He mm standing at a manhole near the top of the shaft giving orders to the men below when tb« cage, with an «utpty truck, descended andL etrnck him on the head and faco, inflicting *. severe scalp wound and a wound to his left ey% besides knocking out several of his teeth front, the upper jaw. He was removed to tha Tuapeka Hospital, and is .progressing favourably. The same day a young man named William Sutherland was received into the Hospital is a comatosß state from the Lammerlaw Ranger* where he had been shepherding for Samuel Henry. A Taapaka settler namsd Robert Eliott was out on the run looking for cattls^, and found Sutherland ia a hut, almost spaeoh.leia. It seams he had lain down in his wot clothes and had fallen aslaop. On. waking La drank a lot of snow water, which completely upaat him. Luckily Eliott looked, in, not a