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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 195, 22 November 1872, Page 3

A company has been formed- in Dunedin within the last two or three weeks to commence operations in one of the quartz claims at .Rough Ridge, some three or four years ago ■ .■worked by a company called the "Great "Jj.asterr;," who had the stone "which they raised crushed at the Ida Yalley Co.'s battery. Through great mismanagement, the "working of the\ c * a i m was stopped, although the average from the stone was very large about dwts. The reef was subsequently taken up o*Y Mr- C. F. Roberts, of Mount Ida, who late>\V came to Dunedin to float the company. A m>? e^n o applicants for shares was held the otS^ 8r evening, and it was resolved that the con 'Pany be registered under the Mining Companu^ 3 Limited Liability Act under, the name of t.^ e "Energetic." >Be-, fore proceeding to the er?^ ctiou of machinery it was considered advisable t^ raise 40 or 50 tonß ' of stone, in order to test tV'? expense of getting the stone to gaass, it bei, m lfcs; . uature very hard ; and in the event -of-the;.result being satisfactory, the shares a.'^\ cn are a * present not taken up will, it is ant v c ip De absorbed by the present shareholde .Vs,-and .the erection of machinery be proceeded " w^n Without delay.—"O.P.Q.*" in "< Cromwell."'-."4-rgus."

SuttVAXTGALisir impertinences, .\ as P or * trayed in facetious journals, are by no exaggerations. A .'lady at Stockwell rec " y engaged a cook, who, on the following .. r?' came upstairs for a shilling for her beer moiv '\?' " .Beer money !" said her mistress. "Wh '7 there was a cask of ale and a cask of stout in v . three days since." Yes mum, but I have been 'customed to bottled ale, and I have a bottle for dinner and another "for supper." How these poor creatures must find out their mistake when they marry, a, poor fellow with a pound a week, and who occasionally indulges in a strike. —' South London Press. * In an article on "Headdresses" in St. Paul's Magazine, the use of caps by girls is recommended : —"lt is a pity that caps are so entirely forgotten by young people, They seem to be considered only fit for servants and great, grandmothers. Even middle aged ladie3 fancy that, by assuming a cap, they are renouncing youth ; whereas, by continuing to expose the bald pateh on their heads, and° the increasing thinness of their locks, they imagine they still retain it. This is a terrible mistake. The bad taste which does not scrupulously conceal such' a misfortune as a bald pate cannot be too severely condemned ; at the same time there is no reason why. -anything so becoming, so coquettish, and m cleanlv as some sort of cap should not be adopted by the young. Fifty years ago, or even thirty, girls were never eeen without a cap in the morning, and very pretty thpy looked with the transparent halo around their rosy faces, and a blue ribbon to crown it.

The modern mania for showing off the whole, hah* in season, and out of season, in the stress and in the house, is of quite recent date, and has many demerits ; and as the greater part of our mighty plaits are false, they arj uoo such a ' glory' after all." From Inangahua excellent stone is bein'-* obtained from the Victoria claim, on Kellv'a line. At Anderson's affairs are evidently improving, and the most favorable accountsfrom the prospecting claims are to hand. There is such a dearth of cash in Beefton] that a party of miners who had soz. of gold for sale,'were unable to dispose of it in consequence of there not being sufficient lawful currency in the hands of the would-be purchasers. A gold-bearing leader a foot in thickness, has been struck'in the tunnel of the Enterprise .'Company. It is anticipated that the main ree*f will be .reached in another 50ffc. It is rumored that it has deen decided to commence the formation of a road between the Arnold and the Ahaura. The 'Herald ' calls attention to the fact that a mistake occurred some time since, in transmitting a telegraphic message from Reefton, concerning the yield of gold from the Lyell. Tho result was in reality 850oz. from "86 tons of stone. * ,