KYEBURN.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 150, 12 January 1872, Page 6

KYEBURN.

(From our own Correspondent.)

I informed you, in my last, that a meeting was to have been held at Mr. Morgan's Post Office Hotel, the object being to elect a committee to organise horse races for the Kyeburn. Several influential residents assembled at the time appointed, but no business was done, owing to the absence of a certain person, who shall be nameless. Finding that the person in question did not arrive, the assembly dissolved, and very many were the wishes expressed for the absentee's future comfort. No time was appointed for a future meeting; but it is to be hoped that this little contretemp* will not prevent the carrying out of so worthy an object. If a meeting were called" for Saturday, the 13th inst, at Morgan's Hotel, I believe a good many people would attend. The Kyeburnites have been indulged with a little music during the New Year's week. Two sable brethren— Messrs Webber and Rich—have been performing at the two local hotels. 1 was unable to be present at their performances at the Pass Hotel, but I was present at their last effort at Morgan's. The attendance was very poor indeed, and the Minstrels deserve great credit for the plucky manner in which they entertained so small an audience. Mr. "Webber's voice—which was certainly heard at a disadvantage in so small a room—is very fair, indeed ; and his popular song of "Up in a Balloon, Boys!" was highly appreciated, as were all his other songs. I had not an opjjpriuuity of judging of Mr. Rich's vocal powers; but in the delineation of negro character, in its grotesque forms, he was very happy. These gentlemen are, I believe, about to take a turn arouud this district and will, no doubt, meet with the success thev deserve.

Great indignation is felt here, at the treatment received by the unfortunate mortal remains of poor Clark, at tV hands of the residents at Maerewhenua. "Savages and cannibals'.' are the terms freely applied to thejar, and some surprise has been erjpmaeA that they did the poor man. It was proposed foraise a subscriptioa "here to inter the remains of the unfortunate deceased; but it was not deemed safe to t rust the money beyond the Pass. Great destitution must surely prevail on a golddiggings where a plank or two cannot be found, to enclose the remains of a deceased comrade. This is the only excuse that can be advanced in favor of the Maerewhenua people, and it is but a. very lame one. Diggers, as a rule, are very humane to the distressed, and a greater outrage to common decency it has never been my lot to witness.