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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 233, 22 August 1873, Page 4

Our remarks, or some other agency more potent still, have secured the telegraphic an-, nouncement of the despatch of the English, mail. It has been notified by the local Postmaster that the mail will close at JSTaseby on Friday, the 29th mst. Ten dkrs to work the Camp Reserve are to be lodged by noon to-day. The Dunstan Jockey Club have put out their preliminary announcement of the Spring Meeting, to be held on Friday, September 26th. * The Temperance Hall was not, 5 * we understand, sold, the reserve of £55 not having been bid. ~ Mr. John P. Armstrong, with that good nature which is characteristic of "all he does, has consented to give a lecture at the Dunstan in aid of the Hospital. The lecture was to be followed by a ball. The ' Dunstan Times, : in advertising the programme, has, rather amusingly, affixed this heading:— CO N C E R T (Instrumental and Vocal). Now, as dancing may, by a stretch, be supposed to be the instrumental part, our facetious contemporary almost implies that the lecture is the vocal part. We have no doubt that Mr. Armstrong succeeded at Clyde, as elsewhere, in keeping his audience thoroughly amused with his somewhat original style of explainingan " Irishman's experiences."<*• l A VEiiY sudden and fatal accident occurred near here on Wednesday last, resulting in .the death of a young woman for'a long time residing at Naseby. It appears, as far as we can learn, that Mr. Keenan, of the Ovens Hotel, was taking two drays, tied one behind the other, to the Kyeburn, where he has a farm. Miss Bridget Mungovan, who has an interest in the property, was sitting on the leading dray, Mr. "Keenan, her brother-in-law, himself being in the dray following. At a sharp turn and sidling a little beyond the Welcome Inn, by turning too sharply or too much up on the hill, the horses pulled the first dray over, probably the horses of the hindermost dray, the oiiter edge falling across the unfortunate woman. Mr. Keenan tried ineffectually to raise the*s«.de, and then to dig under and "prop. It was probably half an hour before sufficient assistance couid be got. When Dr. Dick, who had been sent F or, arrived, he found that the pulse was almost gone. A partial restoration was effected, and the sufferer was brought back to Naseby. From tLe first no hopes were held out of recovery, and early the following morning death ensued. Father Royer, who had been sent for, left Gaiibaldi that-night, arriving at Naseby a little before 3 a.m. — remaining with Miss Mungovan till she died. This is not the first time the rev. gentleman

has sacrificed his time and comfort, in all hours, roads, and weathers, to comfort the suffering. I.N" the Dist.ict Court in !>ankruptcy on Wednesday kst, an application was made to vest the estate of Robe-t Keenan, a debtor, in the Provincial Trustee. Mr. R. E. Field, acting in the absence of his .Honor tbc Judge, granted the application. ' We have received authentic information that the General Government will probablyagree to the extension of telegraph line to the Dunstan, via St. Bathans and Blacks —should the Provincial Government guarantee interest on outlay. From the source from which we gather our information, it is probable the offer will be made. There could be no risk in guaranteeing the interest, as the line must, in a few years, prove abundantly remunerative. Wabdex Fitzg-jgraiiD appears to be a man of original-ideas. In his half-yearly report of the Kariieri district, he suggests tliot premiums should be offered, prior to the undertaking future roads or tracks, for the beat , blazed route from point to point, with a spe- ! cified limit of grade, and with only fair windlings, as-by that means the knowledge men have obtained iu prospecting, or cattle hunting, might be procured at a cheap rate. He also suggests the formation of a company to construct a railway from the Glacier to Okarito, and asks whether that railway could not be presented with so reasonable a prospect of being, remunerative, that capitalists might be induced to construct it. A continuous in-

terest would, he says, be obtained by the shipment of ice, without regard to the traffic of freight and passengers. The 'Hokitiki Star' says, referring to the report:—"The export of ice would be a new industry, though we have no doubt that some day it will be an established one, and the Australian Colonies will always afford a ready market. The re-port-concludes by recommendiog that, increased facilities should be offered to miners to take, up small freeholds, and states that, if these were given, a large population would settle down." Tb.b .Premier, having quite enough on his hands to manage the House as well as the Cabinet, without even the aid of a recognised " Leader of the Opposition 3 ' to keep up some'' sort of discipline in that straggling band of Guerillas, has wisely declined to add to the number of responsibilities by taking to himself a Minister of Mines. That he has acted wisely for the present, most people will allow ; but no .doubt at the next " reconstruction" the importance of this department being represented in tbe-Oabindt will be fully, recognised,: though in whose hands such a'portfolio cuuid be" entrusted with advantage, it is very hard to say. Strange, is it not, that the mining community, who are, for the most part, such a straightforward, practical sort of men, should-generally belie all their antecedents",in tbe. : -;ch.Dice of their representatives ?~fov'l think, take them all round, the "diggers' representatives? are those of whom the ftouse has least reason to be proud, although, as might he expected, they are the.very ones who think most of themselves, and show it.— Wellington correspondent of the ' Guardian.' TjTE- f Telegraph 5 characterises as " hole and corner," the, land sale of. last- Wednesday, "at which," it says, " there were three persons and the auctioneer present, besides the 1 officials." Accredited as we are us the Government organ, we ought, we suppose, to contradict, so foul an assertion, and challenge the daring slanderer to the proof. But we fear we can't. On -the contrary, we know several persons who would gladly . have given a • bid for the land in question if they had known anything of the sale, which, it appears, received one announcement, a month ago, in the ' Provincial Government Gazette,' a resppctable publication no doubt, but one which few see, and nobody by any chance ever looks at. The writer, who would himself have been a competitor, has not seen the ' Gazette' for years. A more notable illustration th..-.n this of being " penny wise and pound foolish" was pL»ced upon record. —/ Hawke's Bay H.rald.'