THE Mount Ida Chronicle. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1870.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 90, 4 November 1870, Page 2

THE Mount Ida Chronicle. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1870.

The great lengtli at which we have reported the proceedings at Mr. Main's meeting on Friday last will prevent us inserting our usual leader.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the "Oddfellows will be held on Tuesday evening next, Bth inst. The monthly lecture will be given this evening (Friday). The Rev. Mr. Flamank will conduct Divine service in the Union Church, on Sunday next, <>th inst., at the usual hours, forenoon and evening.

The monthly meeting of the Mount Ida Masonic Lodge will take place in the Masonic Hall on the evening of Wednesday next, 9th inst.

. The statement that' M'Leunan, who ' was connected with the. late I)unstan gold robbery had been found employment by the' squatters in the neighborhood of Alexandra, is. contradicted.

commission charged on money orders drawn on the United Kingdom will, on and after the Ist inst., be double the presenta-ate. The English mail, via Suez, was due at Melbourne on Thursday last, the 27tli .ult. It is expected that the Tarawa, which was due at Hokitika on the 3rd inst., will have the mail* on bourJ..

The increase of lambs this season on Mr. Main's Taieri Lake station is 87 per cent.

The volunteer movement has taken root in Tuapeka—some 60 persons having given in their names as prepared to join it. Mb. Commissioner Weiojok is at present on a tour of inspection through the Province; Two-thirds of_ the town of Lyttelton have been destroyed by fife. The loss is estimated, at £IOO,OOO.

A rifle and a cavalry corps are about to be formed in Queenstown.' '

The Anniversary ball of the Masonic Lodge, Dunstan, will take place at Clyde on the 30th Nov.

Mr. C. E. Haugilton and Mr. T. L. Shepherd have both announced their intention to contest the Wakatip District for the General Assembly.

It is rumored (says the ' Echo ') that the Mayor, Mr. Fish will be a candidate- for the .Superintendency, and that he will receive the support of the pastoral lessees. We hope the latter part of the rumor is incorrect, but at all events it is the town talk.

Me. Vincent Pyke is spoken of as a probable candidate for the Superintendency. Dr. Moran, Roman Catholic Bishop of Grahamstown, South Africa, is to be translated to New Zealand. The worthy Doctor, who is beloved by all classes in his late see, is now in London, liavingjust returned from Rome. We understand that the sum of £29 16s. has been forwarded by Mr. L. W. Busch to the German Committee, Dunedin. £lO Is. was collected by W. Bodendick, Blacks, and £9 2s. by Fred. Morgen, St. Bathans. The up-country cricket clubs are arranging their matches for the season. We hear of a match proposed to be played at the Dunstan on the 18th—the Matakanui Club, (Captain, Mr. T. Handy side), versus the Dunstan District, including Cromwell and Alexandra. List of letters received during June and July at the Naseby Post Office, and remaining unclaimed, Oct. 31: —J W Baker, G Clute, J Collert, S Gallagher, Iseack Grigg, J Harris, Mr Kennasher. C Livingston (2), G Richards, D Ross, Miss Speechley, Lizzie Speechley, T Wallis.

. At a committee meeting of the Tuapeka Jockey Club, held on Friday, 14th instant, it was resolved that the annual races take place on Thursday and Friday, 19th and 20th Jan., 1871. The Mount Benger Jockey • Club annual races are announced to take place on Thursday and Friday, Ist and 2nd Dec. lirthe Petty Session Court, on Monday last, the case Connelly v. Duggan, for using abusive and insulting language towards him on 26th Sept. last, was withdrawn with the consent of the Court. In the case Hjorring and Millar v. Ah Tang, claim for goods supplied £33s. 3d., judgment was given for plaintiff by default. M. Brookes v. Macarthy, claim £3 9s. 9d. Summons not served. The presiding justices were H. W. Robinson, Esq., R.M., and Capt. Hamilton, J.P.

The coach brought down, oil Monday last, under the charge of Mr: Sub-Inspector Percy, the usual monthly escort. The returns appear in another column, by .which it will be seen that as usual Mount idn Leads the list with 2196 ounces.

An advertisement in another column notifies that the, booths, paddock, and cards in connection "with the forbii coining annual meeting of the Mount Ida Jockey Club, will be sold by public auclioii, by Messrs. Inder and G-eorge, on Tuesday next, Bth inst. : _ We beg to draw the attention of o.ur readers to-the sale by auction, by Messrs. Inder and George, on the premises, on Thursday next, of the whole of the stock ox groceries, &c., &c., as also several shares in races aiid claims, belonging to Mr. J. Harper who is "leaving the Colony. ' The next regularly appointed sitting of his Honor Mr. Wilson Gray will take place at the Court House, Nasebyj on Wednesday next the 9th inst. It is expected that his Honor's decision in the appeal case Ross and another v. Roberts and others respecting which a considerable amount of interest exists, will be delivered on the occasion.

Among the treasures brought down by the escort on Monday last, we must, not omit to mention Mrs. Bolton, the woman so intimately connected with the late mysterious affair at Drybread, and who has been committtd to takte her trial at the next sitting-of the Supreme Court in Duhedin. The particulars of this affair are so meagre and unsatisfactory that we retrain from adding to the mystery, preferring' rather to wait for further which,' we presume the issue of the ' Duns tan Times, of to-day. will afford, to the solution, we hope, 1 of the mystery,,and at the same the gratification of the curious and the dealers in the marvellous.

Though not ourselves practical miners-we must plead guilty to having been present on Saturday last at the opening of a new diggings • about a mile in the rear of Malloch's Eyeburn Hotel. We should be sorry indeed to circulate any report liatle to lead to a " rush " and-we are not therefore prepared to say that the new diggings are likely to turn out very rich, or even at all auriferous. All we can of our own personal knowledge state is that we, on the occasion and in the locality to which we have referred, distinctly saw Mi*. Price, the enterprising farmer of Hyde, laboriously and energetically engaged in digging a bullock out of a bog into which the unfortunate animal appeared to be firmly embedded; and further, that when we left neither were Mr. Price's labors finished nor his claim worked out. -Though, however, he seemed to have a fair prospect, we will not venture to take upon ourselves to assert that other energetic individuals may be equally successful in obtaining similar prospects in the same locality, or even that the diggings in question contain a further supply of treasure similar; to that which we ourselves witnessed Mr. Price, so busily engaged in extracting.In the Warden's Court on Monday last, before Hi W. Robinson, Esq.) Warden, the case, of Law; v. Francis was heard. This was an i action to recover the sum of £l, for damage, alleged!to have beon suffered'by plaintiff by the defendant having encroached upon his business area, at* the bottom of Leven-street,

and praying tliat defendant might be ordered to cease interference. The ground was admittedly in the occupation of the defendant, but the point raised was, whether or not the area being made the stand for a cart in connection with defendant's business as a butcher was legal occupation within the meaning of the Regulations. After a considerable amount of evidence had been heard, the Warden said that, although a very liberal construction of the Regulations, he was inclined to look upon the occupation as sufficient—more particularly as the defendant was about to build. He, therefore, dismissed the case; but, as there had been a considerable amount of negligence on the part of the defendant in securing himself he should decline to allow costs. f

A correspondent writing to the ' Dunstan Times from Alexandra says:—rThe Town Council have taken the goat nuisance in hand, and have given to the Inspector of Nuisances instructions to destroy any goat within the municipality that was not upon a tether after the 24tli ult. On Tuesday constable Morkane had a day s shooting. What number he bagged I cannot tell, but X saw the children carrying home a great many young ones.