THE Mount Ida Chronicle FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1871.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 133, 15 September 1871, Page 4

THE Mount Ida Chronicle FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1871.

A ppulic mketixj will li»ke place at Hun ler's Empire Hotel this evening, to consider the correspondence which has taken olace between the Provisional Committee and the Go vernment, with reference to the establishment of an hospital at Naseby for the Mour.t Ida district. V^-" S. VVe are requested to call attention to the isfte, by Inder and George, of the Awamoko mining property, situate at the Maerewhenua. t'his property in the Maerewhenua district stands, we believe, at the present time in so favorable a position as to offer inducements to any person incliued to invest capital in mining enterprises. Thk half-yearly meeting of the Naseby Volunteer Fire Brigade was held in Cogan's Melbourne Hotel, on the evening of Monday last. The following members were present: Captain Inder (chair), Lieutenant Bremner, Sergeant •Stephens, Foreman M'Gregor, Costello (sec), Morrison, Rolgers, Touted, Eceles, Collett, Laugmaak, Pipe, Wilkie, Kirby, Cogan, and Wilson. The minutes of laat month's meeting and practice nights having been real and adopted, and the Treasurer's statement received, the following officers were electe 1 for the ensuing six mouths: W. Inder was reelected Capiat); Q-. Stephens, lieutenant; VV. J. Millar, Sergeant ; J. M'Gregor, Fore man ; D. Pipe, Secretary and Treasurer. A Committee of seven was appointed, consisting <>f the officers ami Messrs. Kirby and Morrison A subscription list was opened for the purpose of enabling the Brigade to purchase a suitable leather hose. The result of this subscription we have yet to learn, but we feel th it it should and will be such as the Fire Brigade desire. Canvas, as a hose, is of tOi> perishable a material to stand the test of even ordinary practice, and what the result might be when the safety of the town was dependent upon its strength and availability has not yet, we are thankful to say, been tested. A proper leather fire brigade hose is the ho>e which has stood I lie test of ages, and one which will bear the wear a:.d tear o r ten or a dozen of its at present, eanvas sub«t.LiiU\ On the ground, therefore, of economy —of availability or of durabili'y —there is. we imagine, the leathern hose is ti;e article required, and we will not allow ourse.ves to believe that the people of N iseby will prove so untrue to themselves and their intens's as to refuse their mile for tiie purchase of the proper and most durable malerid. l.v the Resident Magistrate's Court on Saturday, before H. VV. Robinson, Esq., K.M.,

the case of Wilkinson v (Jason was heard. In 1 his case it was Bought to be established that defendant hat engaged plaintiff as carpenter at Hits, per week, ami the plaintiff having received only 60s. now sought to recover the additional IDs. per week for thirl ecu weeks. thai and documentary evidence allowing that. 50s. wai the price for which the plamiiff was et-gaged, the ease was dismissed.—Yesterday the cane of Grason v. Wilkinson whs heard. Claim, £1 Us. lid. for goods supplied. Judgment for amount, claimed, with ite. costs. Thk British mails, via Suez, will close here on Monday, 18th, and via .Sun Francisco, on Monday, 2.> th, at the usual hour. AcoitBKSPONDhWT, signing himself "I'error." writes ;-—" Sir,—l wish to call the attention ot an acute correspondent in your late iissue to the fact, that th. Magna Charta has arrived ; and further, that he is no doubt desirous of seeing his warm friend and honest admirer Jeff JBuggins." VVk understand that, the Mount Ida Oarrlck Club intend having a ull dress rehearsal in the oddfellows' Jltill this evening (Friday), to which honor py members are invited. at a meeting of the Mount 1 .a I'm ie Association, held in Hunters Knipire Hotel on the evtnng of Thut>d.y list, a resolution was unanimous y adopted to the effect that immediate action should be taken to alter the p.csent main line of road so as to make Naseby ;he first night's stage between ihuiedin and Cromwell, and to cause the whole traffic to pass through this place. The memorial wd) be found in another part of our present issue. Pkess of matter at a late hour compels us reluctantly to hold over many items of local interest, at present in type. Thk School Committee met at the school' room on Fridey last—Mr. W. luder in the chair. '1 he chairman stated that the meeting had been ealhd for the purpose of conferring with the schoolmaster rclaive to the alteration in fees The suggestions for raising the rate of school fees was agreed to. and it hub further resolved that a sshoolmistivss be advert sed for. A letter f.on the Union Church Trustees was received offering t:ie use of the building pending arrangements. The secretary was instructed to ad venise for a schoolmistress, and to communicate witn tue Secretary of the Education Board the consent of the Church trustees iu reference to the temporary imc of the Church building. In the War leu's Court, Xaseby, on Saturday last, before 11. W Kobinson, Esq , Warden, the ca*e Extended Water Race and Sluicing Compmy (registered) r. John Creighton wat disposed of. This case was heard before assessors, and the complaint was to the effect that, on the sth of September tail water and tailings fiom the tail race of defendant had carried away a portion of the complainants' •yewash, thereby doing damage to the plain* •iffs to the extent ot £S sterling. After evidence the case was dismissed. At the auction sale in connection with t' • forthcoming Spring Meeting, in the Vieto i» ilall, on Wednesday evening last, the booth, purchased by W. J. Millar, brought £29; padlock, A. Forbes, £o lUs.; cards, W.H.Cooper, d Ids