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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 56, 25 February 1870, Page 2

fV EEOil Macraes we hear tliat the small crushing machine, after undergoing thorough repair, is now engaged in crushing stone from the reef at Fullartons. (The reef is "being; J tried by Messrs. Eggers Bros, of Macraes). * The Duke of Edinburgh Company are getting on -with their machinery, and expect to make a start in five or six weeks. They have a large quantity of stone on the surface. As the company are short of hands accustomed to reefing,, they are offering Is. per hour, with the chanceof overtime.

We hear that a company has been formed in Oamaru, -with a capital of £IOO, to further test the reef lately found by Robinson and j party at the Maerewhenua. f

A meeting of Irishmen was held in Naseby the other evening, when the following gentlemen were elected a committee to draw up a programme of sports for St. Patrick's Day John O'Loughlin (secretary), Michael Brookes (treasurer), P. M. Morony, John Macnamara,. James Macnamara, Michael Lannan, John Tait, John O'Reilly, Timothy O'Brien, Patrick Sheedy, John Cogan, Joseph Kealy. The programme will be published in our next i i ssue. f

The Warden Visited Hamilton on Tuesday,. February Bth, but owing, apparently, to somemisunderstanding consequent, possibly, upon; the removal of the constable from the station,, scarcely anybody attended at the Court. Therebeing several applications for hearing, they were held over until the next Court day,, which, will be on the Bth March, as maybe seen ty reference to the official notice in our advertising columns. Oub Kyeburn letter reached us too late for insertion in our present issue. It will appear- J in our next. -

We have received a communication signed " Roscommon," but as it lacks the necessary authentication we decline to publish it in our columns.

We understand that tenders are called forthe delivery and cartage of 1?00 telegraph poles, more or less, " for a line of telegraph tobe constructed between Naseby and Alexandra.. The poles will be delivered to the contractor at the Spit, Waikouaiti, and will have to be j carted from thence and delivered along a line ' of telegraph to be hereafter indicated, between Alexandra and Naseby." At a meeting of the miners held on Sat urday evening last in George's Victoria Hall,, four additional delegates to those appointed at ' the public meeting on the preceding Thursday were chosen, to confer with an equal number to be selected by the various water companies,, to endeavor if possible to arrive at an amicablearrangement for both parties in this dispute. A private letter, under date, Hogburn,. February 14, appears in the Dunedin 'Evening Star 1 ' commenting on the strike of the miners against the water race owners as follows : " Everything here is very dull, the strike still being continued rigorously. It was anticipated . that the men would have gone to work to-day. ' At present, however, I have heard nothing of their doing so. A letter was received on Satturday from the Superintendent, granting the miners on strike a month's protection for their claims.. A more imbecile act, or one more likely to'protract the present struggle, it would be impossible to conceive." Our Kyeburn readers will be glad to learn -that a most important alteration has been made in the postal service to that place. By the hew arrangement the mail for the Kyeburn Diggings closes in Naseby on Saturdays at 10 a.m., leaving Kyeburn on the following Mondays for Naseby. The iron pipes for the Naseby Water Workscompany have arrived, and, as the reservoir is in a fair way of completion, we may soon ex- • pect to see the Hquid element laid on for domestic purposes*. "The quarterly licensing meeting for entertaining applications for spirit licenses, for thia district, will be held at the Court House, Naseby, on Tuesday the Ist March prox., at noon. •

A sitting of the Petty Sessions Court "will be held this day (Friday) at noon. We would draw the attention of those persons possessing the - necessary qualification, "whose names may not be already on the Electoral Roll, that they may now put in their claims for the right to vote. Forms pf application may be obtained at the Camp, and at Mr. Busch's, and must be lodged with the Registration and Returning Officer at Clyde on or before the 31st March. There can' Scarcely be a man in the district who does not possess the household qualification, that is, the occupation of a dwelling of the clear annual value of five pounds, The present year is likely to be fruitful in elections, and we advise all who have not done so to register. Another instance of the sudden death of a child has been reported by the police. Constable Rooney arrived here from Macraes Flat on Sunday night to inform the coroner that a child of Mr. William Mardling of the Taieri Ferry, between Hyde.and Macraes, had died suddenly from an unknown cause. The coroabsent at Maerewhenua the constable, we belie ve, rode over for a Justice of the Peace to ask for a Magisterial investigation. As far as we have yet been able to learn the deceased, and another child of Mi-. Mardling's, were both attacked at the same time with convul-

sions, attended with violent purging and vomiting, to which the life of the deceased succumbed—the other child recovering. It is a fact worth remarking;that in all of the several cases similar to the above which have occurred lately, that the children have resided in out-of-the-way where poisonous berries or fungi would be likely; jto, grow.