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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 203, 17 January 1873, Page 3

Sie G-eoege aacl Lady Bowen arrived at Lawrence on Friday evening last at 7 p. m. and were escorted from Havelock by the Mayor and.Town. Council and a number of horsemen. An address was presented by the Mayor at Lawrence. The vice-regal party left on Saturday for Anderson's station, at the Teviot. The Chinese residents presented an address which was gaily decorated. . Detjjcxitii is recovering rapidly from ihe eficct of the bullet wound he received on theplight he was attacked.

ILlxy wlio ha re sailed with Captain Gray, in tlie Groat Britain, will hear with regret, of his sudden death. We remember atone time, owing to the extreme regularity of his ship in her voyages, it was currency reported in nonnautical circles, that he had a special secret,, that he would not tell, as to the best route. The telegrams are rather indefinite as to thecause of his death. No doubt a full enquirywill be made in Melbourne.

One-eyed Beck, whose address has been, wanted by the Trade Association, has turned, up in Dunedin. We are glad to be able to- : inform th e secretary that he will-be found for the* next three months in Dunedih gaol, though, weconfess we should have been better pleased, if other parties had put themselveo within reach, of the law. It is not always the public delinquent who really deserves the most. List of unclaimed letters lying at Post; Office Mount Ida :—Henry Carr, Benj. Chadwick, Mr. Dugdale, William Fawcett, Frederick-. Lloyd, Francis Gilbert, John Hunter, Henry Kaflcge, Jessie M'Kenzie, Henry M'Neill,. James Newman, John Eeenan, William Paterr son, Charles Piers, Austin Parker, Nicholas Quinn, Thomas Rodgers, Alex. Sinclair. The eale in Chrislcuurch, on the Bth", of Mr. ]S r osworthy's racing stock was a failure, in consequence of the high reserve prices. Only three important lots wore sold. 4SO guineas each were bid for Lurline and Calumny,. but they were withdrawn for £SOO each.

Ijf view of the great rise in the price of the necessaries of life, several of the banks in Edinburgh have presented gratuities to their employes. The Royal Bank have given 15 per cent, on their salaries to their staff ; and the Clydesdale Bank and the Bank of Scotland have also given bonuses to a considerable, amount.

A writer iti <£ Notes and Queries " points to some arguments in favour of the real original William Tell, of Swiss tradition, being a Scotchman of the name of M'Leod from the Braemar Highlands.

We take the following from the Evangelist : —The Liev. J. Wood, who for some time fulfilled appointments in New Zealand, has received a hearty and unanimous call to the North Carlton Presbyterian Church," Melbourne, and is likely to be settled speedily, with every prospect of usefulness and success in this recently-formed charge. Some probationers formerly connected with the church here are now comfortably settled in Victoria—as the Rev. Mr. Campbell, who is minister of Carngham and Lintoji ; and the Rev. Mr. Cameron, minister of Walhalla and Rosedale."

The schooner Kate Grant has been wrecked in Soomo Strait, JFiji. Mr. Ross, builder, Levuka, who was a passenger by the Kate Grant, when at Drummond Island, Banks Group, was stabbed to death by a native on board the vessel.

At the .Resident Magistrate's Court, Lawrence, before Vincent Pyke, Esq., R. M., on on the 24th ult., a lad named William. Lyons, was charged with stealing a spade, shovel, and tin aish, from the police paddock. After evidence had been taken, his Worship said he had not the slightest doubt that the boy had commit ted a felony. It was a pity to see so young a lad in such a painful position. The law wisely allowed a magistrate to dismiss the criminal, under certain circumstances, where the Value of the property is under 205., and he would mercifully give the accused the benefit of this, the more especially remembering that to-morrow, Christmas Day, was the anniversary of the birth of the Grreafc. Teacher of Mercy. His Worship then called for the boy's father, who was in Court, and addressing him said : as the father of this child, you are responsible to Grod for his soul, and to rr»n.n for the propriety of his conduct Let this matter be a warning both to him ind to you; and if lie is ever again placed in such a position, upon you be the responsibility. Teach, him that he is not the proprietor of any thing he may happen to pick up, even if it is foundnot stolen. It is the duty of persona finding lost property to endeavor to find" the owner. Take him away and give him a good thrashing —it will be no more than he deserves.

The ' Jforth Otago Times' gives the following comments upon the manner in which the officials in the telegraph department are paid. For our own part we quite endorse them, from what we have both seen and heard in regard to the telegraphists in this town. There is scarcely one hour, or even a Sunday, in the week which he can call his own, and even of a night he can scarcely tell but that his services may be required owing to the arrival of English news. And all this work he has to perform single handed, with no assistance beyond that of a boy to deliver telegrams. Surely now that the work of the department in Timaru has so materially increased, the Groverffiment should allow him extra assistance. O:r contemporary says We notice that some of our contemporaries are drawing public attention to the exceedingly low salaries paid to the officers in this department. Indeed, they are perhaps the worst paid class of officers in the public service while their duties are such as to require not only intelligence and diligence, but also a reticence which no other department demands-' It is in vain to expect ill-paid officials to dis-charge-so important duties without fair remuneration ; and it is as obviously unjust that men in so responsible positions should be paid a miserable dole equivalent only to roadmen's wages —scarcely that. Goodness knows that the ourden. of taxation .'is- heavy enough in New Zealand','but it would be q.ui'te competent. to increase the salaries of a deserving class of officers without increasing that burden, by, at the same time, sending a fey-.-of- <mr., heavily paid sinecurists about their business, —Timaru Grazettc' " .