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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 218, 2 May 1873, Page 3

A sad accident lias happened to tlie eldest son of Mr. John Eoss, of the Carriers' Arms Hotel Shag Valley. Some three or four months ago, while playing after school hours, he fell off a fence and broke his arm in two places. It had got all right again. But on Monday last he fell again off the same, fence, and again broke it, the fracture this time being of a more serious nature than the previous one." By the last mail, a despatch was received from Dr. Featherston, stating that a central emigration agency for Ireland: had been opened in Dublin, and placed under the charge ol a Mr. Mason. ; The agency at Belfast is still kept open, under the management of Mr." Earnell.— ' Post.'

The ' Tuapeka Times' say 3 that owing,to the scarcity of water preventing Holt's coalpit being worked, the people of Clyde are compelled to burn " buffalo chips." The supply of that fuel is running skort, and unless the clouds yield a supply of water, the townsfolks will find it difficult to keep warm during the incoming winter.

The retiring room provided for the jury at the Courthouse here is a large and airy one, being an adjoining grass paddock, and which was occupied for a short- time by the jury on Lewis' case on Saturday. We would, however, recommend that the fences and gates be made a little more secure, as in the case of a jury being locked up for a night, the idea might suggest itself to some of them of retiring to more comfortable quarters.—Bruce Herald.'

... Labor lias never been so scarce in the country as at present. All districts unite to swell tlie great cry now{ heard in. the land for more labor. Every workman, skilled or unskilled, is fully employed, and an idle man, if to be seen, would be looked upon as a phenomenon. Men for new works, cannot be obtained - for love, money, or any, other consideration. This scarcity of men is peculiarly unfortunate just now, as many promising enterprises depending for tbeir success upon an adequate supply of labor, botli in mining and other directions, are being commenced; If tlie stream of immigration to this colony is ' not very largely augmented, and that speedily, wages must inevitably rise to an extent that will check enterpise and also militate against the interests of laboring men. —'Tuapek>a Times/ /