AN OMISSION.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 105, 17 February 1871, Page 3

AN OMISSION.

(To the'.JSditb'r of the Mount Ida.^CnßbijiCLE.) -vSiii,—■Iu the other night, the tiine ; ;at my dis|>osal so short'that I abstained from alluding to many matters which it would have' 'been we Ll ! to ha ve touched up,i j.n,. Among others, the ' sftitemeitt ;,v.bic)'v.l has 'been so- 'to thethat; f the General Assembly has sandionod the expenditure <>f'£3 ; upon public works in tht; North Is!and. % it he, of' the: Colony, to'£ L wh:ch has been sanctioned/iri the Middle Island. 1 Although I can scarcely believe that any mini iii his senses will give credit to such an assertion, I deem it right to give a Hat'contradictio'ii to the statement: .in question —a ( statement which has not the slightest foundation in fact, and .which,,in this respect, is quite of a piece 'with all the other so-called a which have been add need in fiiv<)r of t declining avail itself of the borrowing, powers of the Colony.. * , .. , If your readers can procure, and will ;tal?e;the. troublei jto the L'ttnn aud .EuMiy ;-advantage,whatever has been Yonferred "aipon the North at the.ex-, pemfepf'ilie; S.(|utb.; not only so, but' that' a* laf*gk pro[>oilfioii of the expenditure under works loanlias -been sanejipned iit the South than has been authorised in the North." —I am, &c., ?■: 'J. MACIiNDREW.] .! .'

'■ ■■■■■••' ■■ ,-i >h; i l"; 1 A Dead Beckoning. Calculating funeral expenses. . '