WAKATIP.-Mail

Otago Witness, Issue 1474, 14 February 1880, Page 10

WAKATIP.-Mail

Mr H. J. Finn, M.H R., has recently been visiting Macetown. He has a claim on the Victor Emmanuel line, which he purposes to start immediately.

Bishop Nevill presented apurEe of sovereigns from the congi # egation of St. Peter's Church to Miss Aldridge in recognition of her services at the harmonium.

The report submitted at the annual meeting of the parishioners of St. Peter's Episcopal

Church showed that, after all debts and obligations had been liquidated up to present date, there was a balance of some £3 odd in hand. A committee has been appointed to canvass the district to ascertain what amount could be guaranteed towards the support of an Episcopalian clergyman. The followingis the vestry for the ensuing year for St. Peter's Church :— Me* sra T. G. Betts (Pastor's Churchwarden), J. L. Evans (Parishioners' Churchwarden), J. B. Worthington, L Hotop, WaldmanD, Bodkin, Price, Mulholland, and Stock. The jetty at Franklin has cost the County Council £400. Tho Council has applied for a refund from the Government;. The educational meeting at Skippers was composed of five single men and two married ones. The Upper Shotover school opened after the holidays with an attendance of 115 scholars. The Board of Wardens for the Cardrona commonage, according to the statement of a member of the L«k«8 County Council, have not met for 18 months. The County Council is of opinion that the police shonld collect the dog tax on commission, and a committee has been appointed to arrange tho m*rt ir on thiß basis. The Government has ask d th« Borough Council to rev.is its first instalment of the floods loan (£80), which was due at the end of the year. The work on the approaches to the new Kawarau bridge is no child's pky, the cuttings at the Swiftburn and the Kawavau being being made in the tolid rock — thus ensuring a firm and substautial foundation. Tbe contrtetor for the Kawarau bridge is pushing matters ahead with a will, and although only begun a few months, a large amount of work has already been done to both bridge and approaches. The roa ♦ which co> stitute s the approach to thenew Kawarau br dge is already practically finished-- only a small portion of a few chains near the Swif cburn remaining to be done. „ , „,„ The Gore School, of which Mr John >.eill, formerly of Prankton, haß recently been appointed head maßter, is one of the best m the country districts of Southland. He carries with him the good opinion of the Lower Shotover folk. „,.,« L A request has been received by the County Council from the Government for the firnfc instalment (£2000) of the floods loan, which was due on the 22ad September. It was decided to confer with the Minister for Public Works, a3 the Council was not in a p .sition to remit the instilment at present. During the oldeettleia' tour a visiting card was picked np on the top of Ben Lorn nd with the following iusoription on its back :— View : gorgeous, and not surpassed by any pmoram c view in the Swiss dips, January 21st 1880. Frederick Dutton, Hanover Square Club, London. An agitation is going on at the Upper Shotover for the purpose of obtaining a supply of wate; 1 for the district. A Committee has been appointed to ascertain, the amount of anrifeiona ground available on the different terraces, and also the probably coat of bringing in the water ftom its Bource. A petition is being numerously signed for presentation to Government asking for aid. The mas for the piers of the Kawarau Bridge was commenced on the 31sb ult. The foundations hay* bren cut in th^Bolid rook, so that there will be no possible chance of their giving way intim?s of flood. The span of this, the main bridge, is to be 300 feet— tho largest span in the Colony with the exception of tbe Grey Gorge structure, which is of equal dimensions.