THE Mount Ida Chronicle. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1870.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 83, 16 September 1870, Page 2

THE Mount Ida Chronicle. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1870.

Ebe- pur 'present issuer ! reached, hands of ! 61ir , '\rea!fters/' ; thei^exis^no -i ; ParKament:.' of .'.Kew V,Zealand!;, .wall," in all probability, have com'e;tP<anend,| the. late session.having' i/ermMatecL 'itsnatural existence from effluxion of time. As a matter of'coxirie," a o new 'eleptipn throughout the 'length. and breadth .< Jef the islands of New Zealand must inetitably and speedily follow. In fact,. so soon!asitbe hew; shall be completed, that event, fraught with such deep l importance!tp J t)ie future terest of "ijuia "Colony. will take pMce.' )U " We.' have' ; ' on. many, occasionsl called public 1 attention to the .necessity of registration, if -.the.. Residents of this district were really desirous their, interest should.., be .f^irjy ;land,legitimatery Represented in the next sessions of tlii^ "Prpvihciai|;Cpune& legitimately, because i:w.e ihold that heretofore those interests, have ; been, rafher misrepresented tha'n that we doubt ifctie ability of the gentlemen who have represented the Groldfields. Still,; it,,isi,natural to-.suppose .that .the district to' which these 'gentlemen : belong should. engage' a! larger amount of lanctjspllcitude than one withVwngs'e w ; ants they are'little acquainted., and in which they ppssess. little, if any; : cpnneetioti Pr in- - terest- The' new 1 '-liepresehtation- it'ct gives p to the, Mount J lda prismg L Mseby, .§£ Bathaiis, llamilton, Hyde, .Macraes.^* /and Kyeburn—one memb.er.i; ■ Surely /. within- limits as '■ extended as. thesp a gentlemati'could be found; folly aequainte'd 1 with the quirem'ents of "the .whose interests )are identical- with'anu 'wrapl up in it, and who possesses also the ability to represent l it with credit to himself End;with advantage 1 to the' cqn- : stitueney• ■ • • Efforts "to obtain / ,ser-' vices- of' jmph a man^^houli"fe;.at t Vonce, '.."■■■: ''■'" '; - ■. i"....v.i .ii</!'i :.•.:■...; H Mi -r-J.-.y: ' - • ..,..<• \:;y. •■■

made, and every possible machinery put in motion to ensure his return. Already are" there whispers on foot that a gentleman representing the squatting interest intends to solicit the suffrages ofi this constituency. "We hold, however, that a squatter memberis totally unfitted and wholly unqualified to represent fairly and satisfactorily..a_ dis_-_ trict so essentially a mining district as is Mount Ida. 1 We have no dislike to any f or be' it pastoral—but we say, let thc.squatter seek election-iaij a district wherein his interest is the predominating one, and the election 1 >( in > a'' district in which the agricultural interest rules paramount. 'As consistent were it for amount, Ida miner, whose all-in all is locked up, in; that calling, to seek to be returned for or, the '[jaieri, as that a squatter or an agriculturist should seek election for the Mount Ida | 'constituency." No more important time j than the present could'possibly occur for taking the step we have recommen- i ded, -and in ■ asserting and ■maintaining our. rights. During the latje session "government , came: down ; to, the Kquse with §ome startling schemes, involving the expenditure, •\vathin a periodiof teri of money. Out of this large amount it-.is contemplated to'expend : a/sum of £IOO,OOO per annum iupon water supply for the various Groldfields of the Colony.■•-To- eiißure'that a' fair and equitable proportion should be expended l in this, district, it is absolutely necessary that the member representing it should be well acquainted with the district and its requirements, and . prepared to do battle i fearlessly in > its behalf. This .could not reasonably be expected from a squatter, or, indeed,: from-any- other' than one' c h?ivmg'the mining interest sincerely at heart.

Follpwjng quickly upon the elections of the' (xeheral Assembly' willxcome those for the Pr;oyincial Council,;';, T|he I electoral divisions,' in; this case/ will.be the.saine as in those for the (General Assembly. Instead!,' however, of' one member, as for the General Assembly, the district of Mount Ida will return two members. Here, also, the „ same 'necessity ; exists for attention to the selection of representatives. Th e same objection to the sauattocracy will hold good in the election of the two members of the Provincial Council,' as for the one for the General Assembly, Among the principal..,qualifications, which a member f jr either House should possess are identity of interest with the district i he represents,-integrity of purpose, and. an average amount of education, and we will not so far insult the ctnstitu-. ency of the Mount Ida district as to suppose for one moment that-many gen- ; tlemen possessing ''the' 'tjualifications :which we have[abov'e"described I 'cannot. ', J be .found ivithin the'..extensive', : area ? Hvhich.;'is, its .limits. \y"e [trust, to find; that:isthere.will be•several/candidates 'for*the honor of a seat - ing elections, and- that in each and every, case the, elections, [may: result in ; the return ot the best men. x4IS might have been expected the announcements thaj a, .feum* of to extend over ten years, frJbm .the,antijeipatg^l^an,.will' b&i expended upon railways, .andii in improving the \ water supply of the Coldfields, have •brought several prospective claimants into the field. Already, has Tuapeka organised a "'Progress" Convention," having fpr.its; object the. obtaining a proposed loan j ""' fbr'a railway, to Lawrence in conjunc- J i tion with the Southern Trunk line, and j -for iHd supply of water 4o' the Gold- | fields;" Again, last week's issue offtie j 'Dunstan'Times'ponits out the claim , of that district ~ to due..consideration, | iand'ii'fair "proportion of the expenditure, within.its,.limits. . ;Qther fields suit', and there j would, we should imagine, be little trouble: or difficulty in expending ten times the anticipated amount upon -works, in diffe rent dis fcricts—all of which works may come fairly .within the scope and meaning of the.proposed vote." 'We do hot think it judicious', within the limits of a shotft article, to advance the claims of the Mount Ida district! to-favoraßle consideration,; as we shall take, the opportunity of revWfring to the subject in an early issue. ,

A meeting; of the membpya of v ,the Naseby Kre Brigade -will be held in jllunier's Empire Hotel, on Monday evening next. A nugget, "vyeighinar 220z5., : and, 40ozs. of gold were found in a creek witliin the town belt, Queenstown. " , . j I

The advertised sitting of the District Court did not take place on Wednesday last. "We hear that the non-arrival of the judge, Wilsoa Gray, Esq., was the cause of there being no Court, and that the absence of his Honor arose from the fact of all the seats in the coach having been engaged. It will be remembered that the witnesses in the late robbery ease at Clycfe werepassengers by "the" coach, on Tuesday last, I which accounts for Hs _ Hdrior being left behind. . .- - ~ - The weather "here during; the Jast week has been warm and open, and already has the snow; disappeared from the higher ranges. Water has Jbeen plentiful, and all the races well supplied and in full operation. A •better season for sluicing has never been known on the Hogburn. The' Clark's diggers, who, sinqe.June last, have been in : winter quarters, driven "away by the severity of the weather from their workings, are r now returning to their old haunts, and there seems no reason why the "'Burster" should not keep up the reputation which it has held for years, of being extremely rich on auriferous deposits'. : . Fkom the telegrams which appeared in the ':Paily Times' in a recent issue, it would appear almost certain that all the grind borrow; ing schemes of the Fox-Yogel administration, which have caused such high expectations and provoked so'much discussion, will come to an untimely end. Money in the Home market is represented as being both scarce and dear, and 1 Colonial securities, under the present aspect of affairs, are looked' upon with anything but a favorable eye. This no doubt arises from the fear that Great Britain, much as she may, and no doubt will, attempt to preserve her present attitude of neutrality, will eventually, though unwillingly, be dragged into a struggle, the extent and duration of which it is at present utterly impossible to foresee or contemplate. ; We understand, on good authority, that Mr. Logan, telegraph inspector, is at present actively engaged in marking out. a new telegraphic route to ISTaseby, via Palmerston. It is expected that the line will be completed and in working order in two months. Mr. Logan is pushing on the work vigorously, and we believe his preliminary survey will be completed to-day. The length of the new route, it is said, will not exceed forty miles. Following, as the above announcement does, the assurance* given by the Colonial Treasurer to Mr. Mervyn, •which , appears in another paragraph in this day's issue, that telegra j>hic extension to Naseby would be via Alexandra, and that there should be a'station at Blacks, there would appear to be no solution of the present apparent contradiction,- r other than that the G-ovevnment have been at last brought tj see the desirability of. .bKving .the electric'do'rdon complete, and are taking every step to effect -this object by beginning at both ends. ; .- >f:. We are requested to state that the Rev. Mr. Dasent will conduct divine-service in the Union Church, iSfaseby, on ..morning, 25th instant.' : : ' -

The .right to occupy- the grand stand, during the- spring meeting of the Dunstan-Jockey Club was purchased by Mr. A. ; Moore for £l7The horse paddock fetched 30s. ' The Clyde Spring Meeting is announced to take place on to-day (Friday), lGtii iiistant; the Cromwell Hack Spring Meeting on the * following Friday, the 23rd; and the Mount Ida Jockey Club Spring Meeting on Tuesday, 4th October, prox. ' * The Provincial Council of Ofago -will, -we. believe, be called together within three weeks * from the prorogation of the General Assembly. The principal business is to complete the arrangements for the union with Southland. Late telegraphic advices from Sidney report frightful newSjOf a.perfect massacre at Ba,. on the north-west v coast of Vitu Leyu,. of .the mountaineers. Uavosa came down to Nalatu Islaaidf- a dlstiict* ; hitherto' subject* to Beau,, massacred 370 Nalafcu people. Mr. Xorinan,. dafcie'of Sandhurst, Victoria, was k'illed, and his body completely cooked and eaten. v : We understand that Sergeant M'Neill has « been reduced to the position of a c onstable. The Wellington correspondent of the 'Tuapeka Times ' writes ; —" Who the. people on the'G-oldfields intend shall represent them in the next Parliament is a question yet to be decided. Already there are rumors that two Bqualsters, if not three, intend to solicit seats. The two gentlemen spoken. of are Mr. Main and Captain Baldwin. If the people are satisfied with the present land laws, by all means return as many squatters as possible, for all the defects, in respect to settlement are entirely due to the influence in the General Assembly bf_the.pastoral tenants of the Crown. Mr. * Main intends to stand for Mount Ida, in orders give *place for Mr. Maeandrew at Port -Chalmers, who thinks he is not safe at the Clutha, in consequence of his leanings towards " ithe squatters. ■ Captain Baldwin > will perhaps try .the Dam stan district" -

Ox Tuesday; <pening_ last, in the- Victoria Hall, Messrs. Inder and George submitted to prtblio .competition, the rights bP'-lwbfh; paddock, and Girds, during:tb©'spring meeting of the Mount Ida Jockey Club. The bidding was keen, with the following resuljt :~rThe booth brought £2B, A. M'Ccol, purchaser j paddock, £l l2s. 6d., W. H. Cooper ; cards, £2 12s. fid » WmvHay. - •■..,..- -.. The Tararua, with the English mail on board, via Suez, was expected ta arrive hvPort Chalmers on Wednesday last. The mails may be expected up by to-morrow's coach. Cobb asd Co.'s well known line of mail .coaches, has clianged hands. MrJ Chaplin hiis retired from the business, and Mr. F. P. Mansfield, so, long and favorably known as the manager of important has become j>roprietor.—' Times.'

ii ..Is .consequence, of the outbreak of war in Europe, anil the probability of England being involved at no distant, date, it is rumored that the volunteers and nnlitia in the .North and Middle Islands'are to "be placed on a warfooting. .. ~ f . GrRKAT speculations'in brandy ape, going on in Melbourne in consequence rise hi that article occasioned by the Franco-Prussian waiv 'i'' ..'.L'.].- ■ ' -- < -■■ iA-l->i • The Wellington cprrespondentcf the 'Timet' states —" That MiOfervyn asked the Govern- / V I I -k. *.. .' • tv.

ro^ht'whether" was^iStraded' a felF-" graph station;., at Yogel's replywas, that it was intended to construct a line from- Alexandra to Naseby,l>dth a|ta|ion at BL*eks," but tha;f ibis could not be dong until material could W.received from England." > " Th-e last of'the course' of popular readings in connection -mtli,tb.e- Sustentation Committee, announced to take place, in the Masonic Hall on Monday next, is 'postponed. / - (IJnspm) . allotments-:., >: in o the. o .townships 'ofNaseby and 'Macraes will be offered for sale', 11 by publics auction j at the Survey office here, oh" Wednesday next, 21st instant, at noon. < - The - sitting -of thev.'Districtf Co'urtf "was ad- - journed ,on Saturday,' the' ist October prox. Summonses to parties, witnesses, and assessors stand good i; for the day of—adjournment, and the Courtj will sit at ten o'clock in the forenoon. ~.jj A bather, original, letter was p\iblished hi the 'Wakatip daife the 6thSept', It appears that the Victoria (steamer) grounded i on a late occasion at the head of the Wakatipj Lake, -Mr. E; Howorth sume), among other causes for the. afcqident, < gives one which has, at all events, the arity of being original. Mr. Howorth states—jv ■"Had there beena&ight burning at £he?2censed. public house . . . I can positively affirm that the accident would never have occurred." This is the first time, within.our of our "having ; of a' public -'h'bnse flight; ; feeing supposed to act as a veritable beacon. •" A BOKA..MBE treat appears to be in store for t the inhabitants'of Naseby. Tnanother^column 1 it is announced that Mr. and Mrs. Hiltd^whb' : , J have just terminated,a-very successful engage- : ; ment in Dunedin, : accompanied by Mr. Leslie"Charles, a baritone singer of,considerable_note, : will shortly make* their'appearance mgNapeby. The Masonic Hall has been engaged, aMfthere 5s little doubt that their arrival will not be■delayed after to-morrow. "What makes the: prospective treat the greater is the fact that;, there will be piano accompaniment —the ab-.. *enc& &f which • has,,« in f our opinion,- tended iriuch '"'' to'' mar '"' most' of' 'the f " vocalistio. -efforts hitherto made in Naseby. We expect to find crowded MmsesV and to hear of very general satisfaction. Tbe tenders for.the. formation ofbthe streets, of Nasebyj ealled"for'"by"advertisement in last' Issue, *vere opened evening last. That of Mr! Josep'h'JPlckm'an, of this -was accepted. , When a ease so important" as that of Eennie and M'Lennan's, for the late- escort, robbery at -Clyde/ has been so long before the public, "and though the sehtence ttf the the acquittal of .the.latter has,been recorded, with' si moderately full r'e^or't'ofVine trial, in most, of the Provincial .pi'inta,'„ r we should, be failing' in our duty to; siich o'f" 'as L have not had an opportunity of seeing other periOjdicals thah ; the 'Mount Ida'Chronicle J were'we to refrain from stating, for their information, that "Uenhie : wasseritenee''d to''six years' 'imprisonment with hard labor,, M'Lennan being ac- ;■ quitted: fact of the evidence of Eeunie '(the approver). b ( eing. ■ insii ! fn£if>iit'^o'^^ i ao claim either to .consideration, pardon, or any ' portion of the advertisWVvewav&i' '- ;,! '