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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 198, 13 December 1872, Page 3

The foundation stone .of the new Knox Church was laid last week in Dunedin, the day choseri: being the f.ricen'en'ary anniversary of the great reformer. The usual tone of l mdation "common t'o_ such events characterised the various speeches- Happily for the c immunity the. excitement of these special' c jinmemorations—as was clearly shown on the occasion of the Walter Seott centenary—verVrapidlv subsides, and men's mm Is: are r allowed t»'flow in more useful, if less beautiful, channels. —" ' J'.

: ! We should like to"/be : able i: to estimate the amoun'' of tiaTic and correspondence passing to attd fro between this place aridtheuM.ierewhe;uiav'''because." r we' r.liink ifwo i'ld surprise thfeoptiblic, l ahdi'rttii;bt«encoiiK'i»e'vour friends • o'rfsfcive Other side'to ; jo"n ini,tif not'tO 1 initiate,a 'properly subsidised' -ho ?se- express through the PaSs. • That - snow might. for one month-"in • the year make such. a; ,serri -e irregular is-,. ho* argument why, for the other eleven m;>n;hs, cotnmunic ition should not ba regularly opened U P-' ' ' V ' r

Wr are in receipt' of' Messrs. ■'Mills, "Dick, and Go.'s 'Almrnac Mnd, Directory for .187-i, av>p virs to be a very .well compiled tli-; ge.«t of tu>ri. We notice psiiticularly 1 arien le vor to interpret tlie fast. incr>Mn«*. cnmp ieations "and ..technicalities of the ilrfnd Triii fer A.<;t. The usual number of infsillible recipes. ar,e prominent, among wliieh a eiire fof apple an 1 cabbage blight. and.- another for aphides'on roses, seem.-.worth trying. ■ The .first is a'so'ntioii; of .Milestone— lib; to 50 or finals., applied to thebase-of the tree or pTnnt The second is 2ozs. of soft s >ap to a gallon of water., Bluestone, :it should be remembered, is rankipoison. Mr. W, J.. Barry is announced, to shortly make a tour through the Croldfiel Is, for the 1 purpo3e r 6f'd'eliVerihg a lecture on " Copper and Tin Prospecting -this lecture being; the result of a five months' tour th ough, the 'mineral'districts of New - South Wales. . .As Mr. Barry has the reputation of lecturing in a light, ' airy minner peculiar to : himself, no doubt his arrival at Mount Ida will be looked forward to as one of the treats of the New Ye r ' - r-

Fat her •Beck, the General of the Society of has,' itUs- saidy •defcermiaed t6' iristriicfc' the memb'ers been, expelled froTh GreriTi'any to emigrate one and all to tho United States.

According toa PuMin paper the Governs ment >vill intrqduce next session an. Irish Reform Bill. ;

The ' New York Tribune' of August. 17 congratulates "the American public thai a prze fight which,hadbeen announced to take .j.lade on the-LoiV-er bad nost co tie off. live steam tugs and two schooners, it sa ri, l loaded with,passenger,went .down to G >W River to witness an encounter; .'betweed Mace 'and O'Baldwin, that they waited nearly all day, and. that "tie gentlemen with the concave noses" did noH •arrive." The amateurs, it is.added,; went home disgusted. 0' Baldwin is described i as a monster, 6 feet s'| inches while p Mace is the well-known pugilist.