MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 228, 18 July 1873, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS.

•'■ The Arrow Presbyterian Church, a handsome stone building, -was opened on Sunday tho 6th inst. A soiree, in honor of the completion of the building, was held in the new Library Hall, on the Saturday evening preceding, which realised towards the funds of the new church over £SO. VT.TI. Komer, the advocate of the Greenstone route fo Martin's Bay is, we believe, in communication with tke Government as to the opening up of a road - from the Greenstone Valley to Gilford Sound. We gather that Mr. Homer has discovered a practicable pass. If so, an immense public gain will be 'achieved—so great that we hardly dare stretch out in what it consists lest dissappointment should ensue upon failure. Mr. Homer describes the_ country as magnificent. This is the region colored wliitc on the map—tho terra incognita of Dr. Hector, who has twoor three times attempted to penetrate it from the se i-board coast, but without success. IX is no doubt, a piece of country rich in gold and mineral resources. We trust the.news is true, though it' is almost too good to believe.—• Wakatip Mail.' r A well deserved reward has fallen to the Ist of the Goodall and Small party, miners, 12-Mile, Lake. After tb ree years of tunnelling, operations of a laborious and necessarily expensive character, they have struck under the terrace the old creek bed. It is of course very rich, and the party may be said to be assured of a hand somo independence for inc. All who have heard of the good luck now obtained rejoice with the party, for they have not | flinched from the. heavy task imposed ■ upon them, although they have had to | abandon one costly tunnel, and were ren- ; dered ill in health by the sulphurious vaI pors of the gunpowder so constantly used ' It is this class of enterprising miners who j do so much to develop our auriferous re- . sources.—'.Wakatip Mail.' I At the late art union for building new ■ church of England at Queens town, "it ap- ! pears that the old building (the first prize) | .was not, after all, rallied away. By some inscrutable decree, says tho ' Wakatip Mail,' the ticket that represented the winning number remained unsold. The book containing it was forwarded to Southland, but though the next number was sold, this one was"not. .. A memorial io the Hon. tho Posfcmas-. ter-General is in circulation for signatures in Clyde, Ophiv, Drybread, Alex;ahdj;a} Tinkers, St. Balkans, German Hill, ; Mount Ida, Hills Creek, and "Ida Valley, praying for the carrying out, as early, as possible, of the continuation of the "telegraph line from this place to Clyde or Alexandra, and that a station be erected at Ophir.