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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 80, 19 August 1870, Page 2

Wb are pleased to learn that our notice lastweek of the liberalfcy qf Messrs. Sanderd,'.Ky.ef -; barn station, in proffering cuttings from, their- i • shrubbery, free of charge, has been largely taken advantage of by the residents. We understand: .that' the Ofcekoike • qtnHr. *■ reef works at the Maerewhenua-are in a for■wa.r.d state. - The'race i&riiownearly r and the machinery .(wtyich is. typing made at. '"Oamaru) will be forwarded tothe inine on an. ealy day. We will look forward with some.- , ' mtercst to the tfcisil' erudhing olf'quart* front' - ,this-claim. ■' A writing, from Macraes, Duke off Edinburgh Company, hiv-.- t ing had men out prospecting for coal they liiVe' sueetJedediiu discovering as* am eight. 1 , feet'fthick, near Horse Flat, which, the.bianagcr (iMklmerie) believes is sufiicieatly good toarivethe .machinery. V'The " samS V. J, correspondent.states that a party has laid bare a gold bearing.xeef in^closej'.proximity- to ; the Duke-of Edinburgh quartz claim. / Ik answer- to our inquiries .we/ are glad t4- t\ learn that Messrs, Kermode and Donaldson,, the.-sufferers-fraixL&he late earthfalls• are .pro-* greasing satisfactorily. Though. we harve nothing,«pecially new- or-. stirring to clironicledn mining matters we are-. happy, to report that all is going on.in the Barne- - regiilair jog-trot manner. Water is abundant,, andi'the yiellof the precious ixietal.satisfectoryi' . There-is some report of a new rush to a locality a few miles diatom .-from, the-town; but as we- y >h.a.ve failed to obtain any. authentic information, upon tl\e;Bub3i#t,w?e Jjhijik, t-9' raise expectations -which may not be • re- - , . ■ alised.. , , English'mail, via l She£/-shotild" arriretP ~ by ; coach to-morrow-. ■ The anxiously fekpected' contfrniation.tif lecture: by the; Rev. Mr. Burchett,. wliich W3S-tohave-beeh delivferfed invtbfe Ma&duic Hall on the eyeaing-of Monday last,.did not take place." ~ ' At the appointed hoqr ;Bo?few!pewK*iw-; had rggy.r - semblbcL that it was deemed advisable to. postpone the lecture till. Monday evening next,, at right o'clock. We feel, sure - that the sparse . attendance arose From 110 lick 'of 'ccu-tesy to the rev, gentleman, or-to any wanfe of appro-- r • ciatiort of nis lecture. The faot is that the . : stirring news of the' recav-ei'y of' the stolen-' , . treasure, brought by that evening's coach, furnishecka subject of conversation to the, good , 'people of Nas:iby, which left them'no appetite • ior anything more attractive. . ' Mk3»us. Inx>j: sold by.aue&en. . : on, Saturday la?t the iron building known as - Sue's Chinese store.. - It brought £27, and .the parcels, realised faiii-prices. < '• iThe ground (M SLenzie's- garden) was with—- • " drawn for-thp- , . t , /, s , / i ■ f TH&;advertised, meeting of the K-aseby Fire for last Monday evening, ip.. the; Era* • s pire Jiotel, was postponed, until to-night at • 'the> same place, in consequence .of * the Jockey j' 01,ub"'iueeting; having been, held the same eventing. , ; j '• -It will be observed by 1 advertisement that ' '■ ; Messrs. In ler and. Gneorge will offer for public r .. . competitiduj in tiie Victoria Kail, to-morrow '(Sftturday) evening; one half interest in ' claim. mdiail race; situated on/ Surface liill. ~... i., BiERK will be a sitting ofthe-Courfc.pf Petty . Sessions 011 Friday, 26th inst. s . V¥e understand ,fchat m. tlxe case of ;• jini party v. RoSs and party, an. appeal has been.-. I° lg?d, and' the cause will be heard, before hi* . Honor Judge Cfray. on Weduesdav ;; l4:tii" proa. .'-•-■ ■> -• ' - l '•/' "• f - Thh up coach from Dunediiv which, arrivei ; here on Tuesday afternoou last bet Teen four•,n'i ftve p t m. remained the night in this? town. vVe have been informed that the absence of"«' any safe' place of custody-for- the prisoner-, ' at Eden Creek was the cause of the; 1 delayf The coach proceeded, the,- following- , ' morning,, kn i it was-intended'to- reach . 6iydfr tiie same-evening. ' ' ■• : At a meeting beldi list, evening iri the' Vic 1 - ; "oria Hali of the subscribers to a d'imd with • ,wliich to-iinp'rove the m tin at reef, of the town,. ; i committee wan appointed to memorialise hi»- J '" : donor-the Superinteisdesnt for a; subsidy; to t-be-. i suin cfrflected, now amounting-, to £39 15s. Thr gran 4' iab'feme' at IraU-ways' fofr'tho- 1 Jforth: a. l Middle Isiau-ls, as devised by the 'pivsenv vioi-ermneiit in. their Bill tbc lunnigratioiu .and Public, Work#," is as;, follows ifropt ' Auoklan l to Waog.tnuii throiigh Taupo coun- " I try —running in connection with the Napier, . and Taranaki line ; Wang-tnui to- Wellington ; i Nelson to iCireyiTrojrth an-d liokit-ik.\; inconnectron;with Westport; from. Picton-to Arnun";. ' ; tfhrifetphurch, Timaru,. Oamaru, Waikouaiti," i and I>uuedin; thence to Tokomairfro-,. Moly- , neux, and Wintony connecting Tuapeka, Clyde,. jirrow r and QueeLustown.. " -The* > r cihag Valley has evidently escaped -the nttentioui of our legislators, p.ui -however importanjt j districts- may be,, only corporate towns are recognised m this pretty net .vork. of our na- . tjion&l rji-ihvay -. . . <» .. ~' * FfiOM a Fiji letter published in- thp. 'Oamaru-. dated Daku Le,yu,.,i£ay IS7O, we take the following interesting extract , i , respecting the necessity of intending settler# *" , podiieß3ing a sufficient capital before proceeding - . |/to the.islands : —" I itm't-did thct w<»'trmy expoct a sugnr company down here. : (even as roughly planted and tended by the natives) is most 'proline, and there are large : tracts of country on many of the larger islands suitable for it* cultivation. '' But now as to capital—aa I said in a former letter, it i* use-

less for a man to coyie down . hereunleea he can com ni and from £i(X)to £SOO, say as a medium, £2OO -pr £;3op, "and yrith. that ajnount of capital, a mail with care and economy, com- ' billed with proper and management," ; can senile hitfiself with eas'e and comfort. £IOO 'is a spm here equal to £250 New, Zealand. I haye sgen a great deal of both places, so that I can 81^with confidence, and affirm' with'truth, aman of ordinary, energy,/with £3OO, can . do more in I?iji with that capital than he can I in sTew Zealand' or Australia - with; £IOOO. L For you can here, almost always, reckon pretty i surely on the. quanfcity .of cotton: you- can rttiße; » there is no 'likelihood of a, hot-wind spoiling n your crop, as in New Zealand or Australia, K. neither does the want of rain, nor the heavy and other drawbacks- affect the settler ■there, as they do in Australia and New ZeaHland, as changes do not so much affect us." nT The r - Cromwell Argus,' a forcibly written ■ advocates the necessity of the PostS master-General making Cromwell the halting K place for the mail coach jn future, instead -of ■ the Dunstan, as at 1 present , and calls upon the ■ Mayor and Council and business men of the ra town to move in the matter. If their exerH tions in,this, respect sere successful, Nkseby fg aitso would be materially benefitted by the I change, as in all probability this town would jg he selected as the half-way halting, place, he-. 8 tween T)uiieai& aWd ! B the mails twelve hours earlier to hand than at ■ present.. This object, we believe, could be ■ easily accomplished by the (government acting hon the suggestions pre riously thrown out by s- jrselves. of having the direction of the main |% of road from Ilounrtbut-n Hill to Naseby BB altered, which would shorten the distance ■ some sever? or, eightmiles, and cdiild beefFected ■■fit a trifling expense. ■ I? 7 reply to Mr. Trovers, on the subject of Hjpostai communication via San Francisco, and Hjtne length of time into whieh-the Hon. the ■■Postmaster-General had hurried and bound the BHColonv to, subsidise .the-present • contractors,; ■Mr. Yogel st.afed that " the wh\slVof the' con- " Etract was so framed as to leave in the hands of gkhe Government of Nevf.ZMand aflmost absofflHlute power. There was a provision giving to Hgthe contractor ,pawec to extend, term Hor.e to five years', but at the same time it gave SMpower to the Government to refuse all suborHsdinate contracts without ihei'i' The ■flawyer informed the contractor (Mr. Hall, ■KJnited States Consul, Sydney) at the time, he was placing himself entirely and absoHHutely at ritertv^Mif ! P^stiruis*ter-Ge"neral BHind the Government ofNew Sroaland." AV ■evv£ read Mr. Yogel's explanation, .the, contrac■t# depends entirely-updn th^^hual"Testes of ■ the House in Comm.iteee of Supply, for his sub-, Kisidy, which may'hie'withk'eld ff'it-regiila/itiei iri 1 |Hthe mail service ensue. ■ The trial- of G: H. Supple' for' 'sKciof.}ri£' J s .' rap. Walshe, in Melbourne, took place there be- ■ fore the -Chief' Justice on fh'e ■2O th «Tuly! The' ■prisoner was defended by Mr. Higginbotham, ■whose spfeech'is said to halve'lasted HDand was a splendid display of forensic elo- ■ quince." ; 'Thefe 'were twd points of defence set BBnp, viz.:—That the shooting of deceased was HHaccidental,' and therefore the prisoner iVas hot ■Hanswerable for it; and that, even supposing it HHwaS not accidental, fchVprisoner was not Tes'- j ■fcionsible for his acts, but was insane. The ■■rial lasted twelve hours, during which many ' ■■witnesses were examined to establish the points ■flbf defence referred to. The -jury, however, ■HBiter three hours' deliberation, found the priHHpner guilty of murder. .The Chief Justice reHBianded him for sentence of the full Court, on ■Hoints raised, and fch : s important, ease t cannot, HHierefore, beldecided before September sittings. HHLhe.Court, throughout the proceedings, was HHsnsely crowded. MHB T'he inhabitants of Oamaru 'haVe 'petitioned MBie Commissioner of Police, Dunedin, to allow HHfergeont Naden, who has had charge of the HHistrict for some time past, to-"remain at MHSPamaru. In reply, th'> Commissioner stated ■Hphat ''he has replaced Sergeant, Naden' by an Mfefficer who has hitherto given the greatest HBBKtisfaction in the Province wherever he has BKPrved," referring, to Sergeant-Major >lopre, ta&' so recently been called .from u the ■Hjtaticn hfere.