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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 117, 26 May 1871, Page 3

Tiie usual monthly meeting of the Court of Petty Sessions will be held ufc the Court if ouse, Naseby, on Saturday (to-morrow), the 27b insb.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Sander* (of the Kyeburn station), and Messrs. Roberts in 1 James B.'own of this town, waited last week upon Air. U. K. Secretary for Innd .ill I Works upjn tlie subject of the pro* posed diversion of the man road from Pigroob to Naseby being made to pass through the Kyeburn run to the Kyebuni road, thus caus» ing thewliole up-couatry tr.iffic to piss through Naseby (the route frequently alvocated in die columns of this joumxl), in preference to the line recommended by Air. Oliver, the District Ltoad- Engineer. The deputation next ealled the attention of the Secretary of Land and Works to the uecossity of the construction of a bridle track from Naseby to the Afaerewhemia Diggings (the present snow poles being wholly inadequate). The cutting a race, to bring in tne Little Kyeburn Kiver, for the purpose of furnishing a supply of witer for flus.iing pur* poses for a sludge channel, wis also urged by the deputation, who stated, at the same time, as an explanation of tiieir present numerous demands, the fact of fc.ie district having been hirherto systematically neglected Jand ignored. ThH Secretary admitted the necessity of tiie works referred to, explained the impecunious condition of the Provincial Treasury, an I promised that the District Surveyor should be communicated with upon the subjects referred to ty the depur.-itaion.

Tub following remark ible curiosity in postoffice statistics is taken from the report of the Postmaster-G-eneril of Great Britain for the year 187):—The returned letters numbered 3,854,708, being an increase of nearly 4J,UJO over the last year; of this number 3U,t>JO have been destroyed or were in hand, the re» munder having' been either returned to the writers or reissued to eorrecte I addresses. Of these letters 13,000 were posted without any address at all, among them being 2->(J containing money to the aggregate amount of nearly £3OOO. ,

The Mining Conference, a report of whoso proceedings will be to ind elsew.icre, appear to be setting themselves sen lily to work to iu> troduce into the new G-oldfLdds Act such alte» rations ani amendments as will ren lor any Regulations which nviy.be made under it intelligible and workable, which tlie present lie filiations most certainly are not. From a letter from the CVmfeivuee to his Honor tiie Superintendent, which appeared in a late issue of the 'Daily limes,' it would r-enn that they are desirous at present of confining their Itibors to suggestions having reference to the amendment and consolidation of the Chid field* Acts, when they propose to adjourn until after a new Act shall have been passed by the Assembly, and then meet again to form a new set of Regulations under and in accordance with such Act. i'lie proposal, which we think in every way a good and wise one, has, w& beliore, mot the approval of \m Honor.