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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 120, 16 June 1871, Page 4

Reference to the last escort return shows Mount Ida, as usual, nt the head of the poll. The expense of the Mining Conference is put down at £363 13s.

Mb. W. G-bumitt, of this town, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Colony. This will supply a want much felt in this district. Letters of naturalisation have been issued to Niels Peter Hjorring, of iVaseby. A writer in the ' Times' suggests that a Squatting Conference should be held. The Chinese Interpreter, Mr. John Alloo, met with a serious accident at Queenstown last week. The unfortunate gentleman was thrown from his horse, and sustained a fracture of his collar bone. We understand that the butchers here have reduced the price of meat as under:—Mutton, 3d. to 4d.; boiliug beef, 4d. to 5d.; roast beef, 6d.; steaks, Bd. The ten per cent, allowed on short payments will make a further reduction of nearly id. per lb. In our advertising columns will be found a notice of a lecture to be delivered by Captain Baldwin, in the Masonic Hall, on the of Tuesday, 20th inst., upon the subject of Life Assurance. The gallant Captain's lectures are spoken of as being highly interesting, and they have, we are informed, been very well received in those districts which he has hitherto visited, j where also his efforts in the cause have met withgreat success. \ It will be seen by reference to the mail notice, which appears in another column, that from Monday last, the 12th inst., Cobb's and Co.'s down coach will leave Clyde at 5 a.m. instead of 6 a.m. on Mondays and Fridays re-/ spectively, arriving at Horswell's Royal Hotel \ an hour earlier than theretofore. j We have to apologise for an error which ( crept- into our local of last week having refe- 11 rence to the reduction of the price of water by she Hit or Miss Company. The reduction j should have been stated to be from £2 15s. and; £2 10s. to £2 ss. and £2 respectively, instead f of £2 10s. and £2 ss. as printed. Application has, we are informed, been made by Mr. John Frater for a coal lease at the Kyeburn, on the same seam as M'Credie's lease and Brown's application. The old bridge over Roach's Gully, concerning the unsafe state of which so much has been | both said and written, has, we rejoice to say, ceased to exist, and has been replaced by another structure in every way more convenient and satisfactory. We congratulate the public ; of Naseby upon this much-needed improvement. Since our last issue a letter has been received by Mr. J. S. M'lntosh, secretary to the Presbyterian Church Committee, from the Rev. D. M. Stuart, convener of the Church Extension Committee, Dunedin, to the effect that the Rev. Mr. M'Cosh Smith may be expected by to-morrow's coach, and will, in all probability, conduct divine service in the Masonic Hall on Sunday next, forenoon and evening, at the usual j hours.

The usual monthly meeting of the Naseby Volunteer Fire JBrigade took place on the even- < ing of Monday last at Costello's Mount Idii Hotel, when all the members of the brigade, with one or two exceptions, were prosent. It. was resolved that the time for preparing a statement of the financial affairs of the Brigade should be extended a month. Mr. W. Inder (Captain) in the chair. We understand that it is in contemplation to request Mr. H. W. Robinson to call a pub : lie meeting at an early date, to consider the petition to the Previncial Council, in re the s establishment of an hospital at Naseby. A report was in general, circulation a few I days 'since that a seam of ccal of a very supej rior quality had been discovered by a China--1 man within a very short distance from Naseby. After diligent inquiry we have bee r a unable to discover anything which would lead us to the belief that the report was authentic. Another accident from earthfall occurred on Wednesday forenoon to a miner named Muller, in his claim off the Main Gully. The contusions, though severe, are not at present regarded as dangerous. Ax Messrs. Inder and George's auction sale at the Victoria Hall, on Wednesday last, several shares in the Naseby Water Works Company rea'ised the handsome sum of £8 10s. each, Mr. G-eorge Chapman being the purchaser. The water race and plant of the Ben Lomond Water Race and Sluicing Company (registered), Maerewhenua, was sold by auction at the Court House, JS'aseby, on Wednesday, 14th instant, by Philip Augustus Connolly, bailiff, under a writ of ft. fa., and was knocked down to Mr. John Frater for the sum of £l5O. The original cost of the race and plant is estimated at between £2OOO and £3OOO. We regret to hear that the first crushing of the stone in the Otekaike Reef did not come up to t he expectations of the shareholders, who are nevertheless sanguine as to ultimate success. There were several things which militated against success, among which may be classed the newness of the machinery and the insufficient experience of the iiien employed in the operation of crushing. So confident, indeed, are the shareholders in the undertaking, that they intend at once to penetrate the reef to a greater depth, when they will, we feel assured, raise up better stone. We wish them every success A correspondent from Dunedin, upon whose authority we can rely, and who is well posted in all matters connected with affairs political and otherwise, writing under date 9th June, alludes to the notice of motion by Mr. Mervyn, to place upon the Estimates the sum of £SOO for the erection of an Hospital at Naseby, and recommends a petition to the Council, requesting them to .sanction the grant, as likely to strengthen' M.r. Mervyn's hands. Our correspondent says : —" Financially the Province is in a most deplorable condition, as we are £IOO,OOO in debt. Consequently it will be very difficult to get any money placed upon the Estimates for any object, however desirable. In reference to your sludge channel, I

f'hink it would be advisable that a petition s hould be addressed to the Provincial Council, r equesting them to recommend the General Government to devote a portion of the money intended for water supply and immigration to the construction of sludge channels and other works of a similar nature, as such works, if constructed, will have to be out of loans, as there is no probability of their being constructed out of current revenue for some years to come.