THE SOUTH RR LEAGUE,' WITH COMPLIMENTS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 138, 20 October 1871, Page 6

THE SOUTH RR LEAGUE,' WITH COMPLIMENTS.

To the Ed : tor of the Moi-nt Tua CußoxrctF.^

.^rn, —It must he a matter nilntioii to nil of ih to find t:>at"we tavc lioeii interviewed |,y M party from town. !he result c»t• o'is; rvat.itiiis were publis «•(! la>t week, mm J . av he ummed up after t 1 > c. style f Captain ook Vsailo>*, .who, (in !>Mni .isle d what too manners and customs t»f ■ t'ur inha-bit,-iiits of a certain islan « w to, rejdiedi —manners none and customs nistv. 1 I rust that I s iall nt he i:/i; ertineitt if 1 express some wonderment us to how t h- interviewer knows t.iui: a }l characters rend* zv ( .us at. the Hor un, ;mi I ''jOW if. is lie' is so well ;ie<|uatif<d' with t'>e movements of awfully wicked people? The. pap<rthat ia'< inserted the letter so notoriously trustuoithy, and the staff beiiiV rather religious, precludes the possibility of any of them having fa h-n into had company, or we mi d,t ina-iii" it origin ited from one of themselves. Tis true Nome months a«ro we did see a man up here of a biblical turn of'mind, and of the newspaper persmsion, trying iih ffectually to do cheap drinks, and felicitate publicans in matters ofhedsand meals, but he failed and retired t. . uncdiii

again, \v!»ir'» proves tiiut a inati c an be a prophet in his «\yn coiiiilrv'. I tor one am very pleased at being taken notice of by any one in Dunedin (the Government having thrown us up long ago); and anv funny local, truth no object, re villainy or otherwise, will always prove we are re me in lie red, and may serve to show how vast the know-

led#? some person of u* v> ially, comm. rcially, and geographically. 1 —I am, &i\, Teufkls I).<ECK P.S.-—The address of r'u> party who :■ wisjfe a very letter to t lie ' Star,'dedicated to MH'lu-key, about our robbing the dead, ran be nad on a perscnal application \V ( . {m . anxious to unite all the family of the -ate Tom Pepper if possible. T. I). KXTKNDKI) AKKAN. (To the Editor of the Mount Ida Cii uonicut.) i*ik, — It titust be to your readers t«» find t l :s* t your attention h»H been drawn from oti-crsubjects snd di-' i re.ted to tat of mining on the 110.,' burn Your leader lar* iy, w <ieh was d< voted to the subject, wan certainli an able one, and had your conclusions been a litth* more logical. no. thin/ could be better. But, sir, like a man playing at ninoj inn, \ou have art up certain propositions, j»nd with a few sweeping asserti ins you have knocked ' e'M Mil down ■< niii Yoii nay vv't S truth that t e 12' a i>e of the (Joltllit'ids Aet i- a jList ,111 , wis<- one. Yet the two first instances in which th v have been tawen.adv in'a-je of you c.'iar.u lerise an unwarrantable .VoU way witli truth thai the auriferous deposit* of Mount Ida are poor. I. ndcr such circumstances would not any outlay of moiv y be considerable, and t us brinyj every claim under the ti hi of that clause without any expansion or stretching of the me.inin-: of tin; clause. M nv parties have, by a system of fencing acound tueir ground, atiil ki*i n-in j; the k\v to a while Ho of country, worked tti Miy a.-iv,- :n-;re tnan they would be entitled to under your very illiberal system. In my opinion the question of or small claims <in the does not mean whether a man is to have. poverty with a small elaiin or rie ics with a e aim, but simply how Inn:: you will lolerate his prcs< no •ere T-e lyinion generally prevails am n st business pi o;de that t t«« Ho .1iu.<> jo, illation Im nefits the Nasebyites most ; certain it is that a man seeking a claim would appear to be quite oblivious to that fact. Hie two instance* to w i.* i you .1 1111 led are perhaps illustrations. On the larger ela m over a dozen nvn are employed, while several substantial dwelling houses in coiiue'-tioii wit ■ i -at claitn would indicate a plo id in perseverance, so m<i • h admired int.' e u Heathen Chinee." For t>c two years the proprietor id' this claim has been in mining, a very ureal change has taken place in Several new pu'dic hou-es have filled u;> ihe <_'aps w ich were so u tic( able in the town ; a n- w,dra;erv .establishment, some sin ill fry, and a host of profusion d'men, have eoii'rid to t *e intellectual, social, moral, and physical wants.id bis, place; and nil this prosperity, sir, in ; *t, come t ifoiejfh that in-•vitable dit<»h or tail re, t'ieexjieiise of w' ic'i often absorbs the earn n<4s of twelve months. 1 ' If, as is tfie ease in nine cases out of ten, the claim barely pays .working expenses, wili an acre ri'in mi repay it Y |l< duct Iro.m t'at acre fully one half, w lich uoes to t m» water companies and blacksmiths. there is a urand ha.ianee 1 fr of hall an acre; ud in t tat resi.lu how many bars and mulluck banks are to be I'iiiud ? l v ie c i.iicest (if t •(• .rrotin lis already., irone to the water company, and t' e estimate would not be a bit too lot if you npponioned the own r out? quarter of an acre of the most inferi »r ground worked in the Australian Colonies. —I am &(\, r»o-Ahead.

I ''o C'idodoiii t*i s'.sires are in im» provi cl demand at £l 12. ! >as been reet ivt*tl ot t e burning of tie Apollo H.. 11 in M. . bourne, »!»e cuj.rure of B.mv l ie absconding alnrohroker, in Tasmania. He will be sent back to Auckland. The Haymarket T'leatre, Mel mi,rn.», has been burned down. /he eause of the fire is mysterious. A man John Jones was killed u»*xt day by the fall of a pillar in tlie ruins.