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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 97, 23 December 1870, Page 2

As Christinas Day "will this year fall upon/ Sunday, the day following -will -,bje observed asa; holiday-by both the banks. Pekmission has "been obtained from liis .Honor the Superintendent to dispose of Mr. Kemp's oil painting* on the art union prinoiple. i We have to announce that, the drawing will i "late plnce. in Horswell's Royal Hotel, on Fri- -, 1 day eyeuing. the 20th January next. The ;_p:iintings are still on view at the Royal Hotel, j. snd will amply repay a visit.. . :: One of the most populnr gather] 11 us ofthe ] .year, the .Oddfellows' picnio, is, as will be seen "j by an advertisement in another column to j .on the old racecourse on Monday, : tne s '2ndJ6f next. Considering the | •very great extent to which Oldl el 1 ows] 1 i p.lias., developed itself in this dis'rict, and heir- ! ing in mind the immense advantages and bene-" | fits which the society secures to all the bro ; jtherhood, it is "only "reasonable to anticipate I that the gathering, will be as great, if iiot even : j ;a.greater success than it was last year. The ; only fear is-rrthorigh we do not wish in : way to be evil prophets—lest the. we«ther i shojJ.tliby any chance provs inauspicious. We, i-trust, however, that, the .day- may* be fair, and jtlie picnic as successful in every way as either: ill, Ourselves or the Oddfellows..themselves could i desire. :

Oaa readers will be glatl to hear'that, the' controversies, which have extended over ft serie? of years br>tV-?en the coiTjpmies known as the. 2^0. f l an I No. 2 X>aad Levels, lviye at length been" brought to an amicable an I satisfactory Oh 'Tuesday. l.ast. the No., I Dead 'Level,'-un-.ler an agreement entered into some time back, bought out the No. 2 Dead Level for the sumiof £250, so that hereafter the entire workings of both DeadXevels in the Main Gully will o be ;rn the hands of the Extended Company. We areglad to chronicle the fact of this strife having been brought to a final termination. - m

f - A ( better, illustration of the great nneerin this district could not be" met with than that- which was furnished on JTriiday List./ ' "It'wassonly on that morning thatthetpublic on the beauty and . adaptibility of the two previous days for the races of jtjhe. Mount Ida Jockey Club. As is usiial in sueh sport*, a number of other matches were made after the regular pr >gramuie had been gO:ie l through, and these it was intended should take place on the following day; 011 the" same course. Friday, however, tur;ed out *o wet, dreary 7 —the very.opposite of the -two preceding days—that none were found > ; bold :eAough to face the op?n air or take their .way to the racecourse. Indeed, during some parts of thei dky snow and 1 sleet fell heavily, accompanied at times with a piercingly cold wind, rendering out-door enjoyment-impossible. The result was that the intended rices were postponed till the next day (Saturday), when the weather, though cold, was a«rai fine. A report of tht principal events of the day will be found iii another column.

' ri We beg to remind our readers that the St. Bathans annual race gathering will take place on Monday and Tuesday next, t : ;e 26th and -27tli inst. The liberal programme of the St. 'BathaniteV has brought togf-ther a goodly com--pany of well-known horses, and some good Jfr icing 1 may j be " fairly and reasonably antici;ipatedv:: ,

!>:' WB r mentioned in our last issue that Mr. Oliver, the road engineer, h -d arrived, and ad- , oii|P[iiiabili|y to see the cause or the use of hiß appearance, or to understand the natnre of the mission on which he had been sent. It

"seems lioweveK'tfisitiMr. Oliver, after having taken t.lie levels ofHooch's anl the Main Guiligaj.reiturnedifeQ/Duneain We im:gine that liis presence fon- such a purpose,; was a useless cxpoase,: as the evels had been previously takan, by the district, surveyor, Mr. Birron, and could of course hayb beensuppli&J'iipon' [appheatioii [nt J tlfe stiryey office.' ~ Can" : iif.'be thsit the' Government intend to trifle mthe matter of the sludge channel. iij the same way as they liuye" "d:>::e 'in ' everything else bf importance haviiig connection with thedisfrffct. D 6 tlVey think' tbv'm:ikm'«-a show of] a disposition to meet the , wishes, of tlu* miners, to d>arm opposition and ( put a stop to agitation. We hope an l believe that they will, in this instance at ie.ist., fii.d" their calculations incorrect and their expectation* disappointed, / We bpg to inform those persons who have not b«en supplied ,with copies of the speech of tlie hon. Julius Yogel. delivered at the openair meeting in Dimedin on Friday last, tint they' c m obtain them by application at .Mr. Busch's store.

. At a summoned meeting of the Loyal N.iseof, Qddfellaws, held'in the 'Lodge Room, l£mpirt> U otel £ on Tuesday evening last," tiie fallowing brethren were elected Officers for six,ninths AVCitimbeli; Nl'tt • C. E. Gudgeon, Y Gr ; an.l P. G-ilhes, E.S. Fboai the report of the examination of the scholars attending the High School, which to.k place on Saturday last, we observed that Mas--ter Ejbert Inder, of this towx\, was commended /in class lir for his proficiency in bat-h mathematics and French.^

v The Hoine; mail, via Francisco, will clo.se Tiere on Monday next, usual hoMr. W. .BfJSCH begs to acknowledge, with tlYinks thereceipt''of ■'£'s! from William Reutz, of Serpentine, in aid of the Q-eruian wounded • amUftimilies of the killed in the ; present wnr. —lt is the intention of his KxcelU-noytho Goyerqon," ; Sir George J^owen/lto-visit iitinWciiii ,«"$ -jJkizo about the end of fp of February nest In ,^ y' 1 »leuc.v will* be accompanied' byx'omtnodore Sliriing, llJJi...>:. Si , t . r fiiE jnembers Representing Southland the

Provincial Council (says the ' Stf nn agreeable impression of t heir ;

ably Messrs. Wood, Of them and the oilier mcmben fairly said, in the words of a contej " They are men of moderately g 1 ments, and the district may ' lay th unction to its soul' that it is fairly « They hare neither the exquisite pit Oaniaru, the pig-headed propensity mairiro, nor tne shallow-p.itedness down from the Goldfields."

; Skkgt. M'Clxskjsr, police office] h«*rc, has been appointed' by liis Kxj Governor lo be an inspector of v 'measures in'the' Province of "Samuel Moore, resided.

Ck(>yj»on won the'B.ill.irat Cup s cap, and Monk the Steeplechase. | The Presbytery of Dunedin met] First C.'iurc2i, r 1) >wliu'g-street. In 1 I 'lutha Presbytery, it was resolve, tiicui that, the Dantrliu district been, fully alivje to the. spiritual neci II ago urn, and had done all it coulc the' circumstances," with the hop! minister for the Goldfields, who v;, to arrive here shortly-, might be 9enl mediately upon His nrrival. Thk Provincial Secretary, Mr. Dc ■]i*as, it is rumored, consented to be; < -didate for the Sn;;crinten;ien:y. TelY.ghaphic communication ..is -lislied from Auckland to within 4 .Wellington. When the few miles between Tauranga and Cambridge i communicjition between Dunedin land will be completed. We won3a few mile* of line bet ween Pahiifl N:iseby will be completed ? Once Sj shall then receive news from Kil twenty-f u:* days' ol J,, supposing t'v! Frincisco mail steamers arrive ac .contract.' •

. Oh.vn'G, the Q'linese giant, is bei; sent exhibited in (Jhristchurch. 11

pecfced to visit Dune.Un (hi-* week. .: A*' .SodfLjsiiua his baen • Diinelln to m vint iin tho integrity o; revenue, an 1 local self jiovermu-nr, ;r our lmd laws. T it; foliowia principles laid down .by the letsjue; cal Expend tare.#-*Kiat every Prov control its own larid-T-ua 1, an 1 a!sa t diture of the lo in-* for p iblic wor* Homestead Settlement.—'Tije s'ttlen people on the lan l, with deferred pn •lepisturinj; rights ; an 1 the repe Han Ire Is Regulation Acts. IS i'j 5 Free' &old fields.—The expnn-liMire Grol Ifields taxation upon the G-oMfij Electoral reform.—'Extension of "Mie V.'l amendment of the pr.sent py-it,p toral registration. j

A Refomi Association* hi» brvnk Wellington. havm-r for if-j «-r vl4 Taxation. 2 Abolition of Proving Abolition of fch\V Native Deparfcmen lowering of the frvnehise. We understand from Mr. ArnistT geon dentist, who has been for somej pist practising his profession in ijj that an unusually largo munity appear to'be inflicted vrifh'o;] other of toot h disease. Whether thi of this loi: ilitv will account, fop thi phenomenon we cannot pretend to s:i can we assign any other prob ible xai Armstrong h:is returned tc DmieTliv ten Is revisit ing Naseby at no rlisf when we doubt not that his serried agiin put into active requisition. 1 We acknowledge with thanks tliel a copy of Mackay's Otago (loUlfielrb' Mackay's Ahnnnac has now beromej Biry to the people of this Provin-e' now looked upon as an " institution, year to year has .Mickty's Almvnnc in the quantity and quality of its to we can only say thyt the present. m the stamp of the same ener-ry anl for which this Almanac 'has b*«

guislieil. . f Thk sale by auction of the right booth on fie owmion of jlipO 1 Ifel 1 - :n» -was disposer! of, by Maws. i on Wednesday last, for £l9 J.,Miliar being the purelmser. \