KYEBURN.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 111, 21 April 1871, Page 2

KYEBURN.

(From our own Correspondent.) The crops have all been gathered in. The harvest weather could not have been worse. Showers and fogs did their work the whole time the crop was in stook. It is now all stacked an.:, I believe, shows no sign of* heating. During the late elections the Kyeburn were virtually ignored. Three candidates visited the place and addressed the electors in a sort of hurry-scurry fashion, but being aware that there was to be no polling booth on the ground, it was done more as a speck to draw voters to Naseby than with any intention of benefitting the Kyeburnites. Such being the state of affairs, it would be highly advisable for the inhabitants to prevent the recurrence of such an anomaly. There is a large and increasing population in this,

* locality, and it would be as well if the new Parliament were made aware of the fact. The defunct Council were evidently not aware that such a place existed. The late Goldfields Secretary, who acted as returning officer, should

certainly have been better posted. The past cannot be mended, but the future can be moulded, and I trust that the inhabitants of the Kyeburn will follow the good example set by St. Bathans, and establish a Progress Committee. This Committee could correspond with the representatives of the district, and also act in unison with other Committees established in other portions of the district. Naseby could have a central Committee which would be the rallying point of all the smaller fry. Some method of this sort would bring about unity of action, and unity of action among a scattered population . is the only method of achieving any■t thing. It cannot be denied that less public t money has been expended on the m Mount Ida District than on any other portion of the Province. There is no difficulty iq finding a cause for this evil. It is simply want of energy and unity amongst the population. The elections are still fresh in the memory of all—the Couueil has not yet assembled—and now is the time to make a stir. Let Naseby set the ex- \ ample, and establish a Central ComA mittee, and let all the outlyiug Goldfields—sueh as Kyeburn, Hamilton, Hyde, Serpentine, and St. Bathans — correspond with that central Committee, and expound their views, and, if; , requisite, send members to attend its | meetings. Such an organisation would 1 create a power which no Government ft could resist They would be compelled P to take notice of representations coming from such a The matter is [ very simple, and could easily ranged if personal feeling does not mar it. I The outlying districts look to Naseby, I as their chief town, for some sign, but L none comes. Will nothing rouse you ft from your lethargy P Look at Tuapeka, Dunstan, the Lakes, and Crom- ' well. They are getting all they ask | for, while Mount Ida, our representak tive (Mr. Armstrong) said, was buried I in the archives of the House. Naseby [ has a bright opening and a bright future if it would only take the tide at turn. If it lets that pass, and the < meets and dissolves without J hearing more about it, it will again resume its old place at the lower rung of (>the ladder, and find itself in a worse position than ever it occupied before. The -district will not only be ignored, t?but despised, as unable to look after its own interests. The district has returned two mem- ' Jbers who will, I believe, use their best

I endeavors to forward the interests of the population ; but, as Mr. J. P. Armstrong explained in his address to the Electors here, it is utterly impossible for a member of the Council, however willing:, to carry much weight unless ; backed by his constituents. The only I way through which the popular voice can be heard is through a public meetssrg; and that public meeting; must confide its ideas "to a committee to : transfer them-to head quarters. Popular clamor is useless without a head through which to speak—it. comes forth but as a multitude of sounds. If Naseby wishes to retain the res- ' pe?t of the ou*lying districts, and still wishes to be looked upon as the em!orium of the district, let it elect a ■ommittee with which the other Gold>elds may communicate. Unless some uch event takes place, I fear that each epnrate Goldfield will have to use its wn best endeavors in its own behalf, nd try, in the best way they can, to rop up the falling fortunes of their brother. I cannot say that Naseby. like "Rome, as outgrown itself; but I may say hat you have too many geniuses resist amongst you, and not one amongst hem who has the necessary requirements to rise abore his fellows and lead he van. It is to be hoped, however, that, Naseby failing to accomplish what is xpected from it, the oul lying districts, i default of having a Central Commitrte with which to consult,.will corresond with each other and endeavor, hrough our representatives, to obtain hat which is most beneficial to the istriet. I believe a public meeting will be hortly held here on the Church quesion, when I hope the subject of a Egress Committee will be mooted by ome spirited inhabitant.