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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 245, 14 November 1873, Page 6

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(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Oheoniclb.) *i. Hamilton correspondent thinks that the best way of spending the money lately voted by the Council for the road between here and Hamilton would be to spend it in making a road on a new track that has been made from the Hyde crossing to Hamilto?-• s ¥. givesthis merely as his opinion, l without giyirig any reasons in of it ■ t7™ U ™ to say that very few will be found-' ;+ here or atJHamilton, iti Werethe road to be made in' the way'%idi- v cated by him; it would simply • make it- - some-six or seven miles lohgeV. This; added to a twelve miles' journey, is no trifle. lam > not; aware-that - there are vany.-verv- serimm impediments to be met with the . oldrpadvi4 the (Gorge;.and..it s £ms. to be the ; qpuuon..of , the,most ..of that" the sjjm voted by^the.Council would b«S"" cient to, make it passable: .' : " • _ I trust that your correspondent' wlli;see' the folly of endeavoring to divert'the'road 1 fr<>m its natural andproper-course. chooses-to SeSi^° k tS. 5 ? 1 * m coming from another- * place, that the peopleof/Hamilton vmWsM : are to be seven miles added to their road amf Hyde, Nov. 11th, 1873.

Thb following ery of anguish is wrung from our contemporary, the 'Arrow Observer': —Pity the sorrows of a country newspaper editor! For any short-becomings woe betide him. Why is there not a Bradshaw to intro7, dxiee an Act for preventing the long hours of slaves of the press? and of all slaves they are most to be pitied. One reads of the first newspaper in the Colony being printed with a mangle ; but then they had plenty of help to turn the handle and set the type —nay, too much, if the truth were only, •known. JNow in our case we suffer thi*ough want of help. For six months we have dragged o.a a miserable existence with this paper, and striven our utmost to make a presentable thing of it; hut, alas ! either owing to the " scarcity of labor," or the proverbial unprofitableness of a newspaper property as a .business —-we know not which we have been compelled to toil on without adequate assistance. To have to report, write, select, compose the types, read, correct, make up, impose, and then work off the paper, besides the general business! Who, under such circumstances, could expect many thoughtfully written articles? .Nay, the wonder is how a readable paper is pi'oducecl at all. One is glad of a piece of " poetry" to fill up with. On Sunday last our " boy," while practising with a carving knife, nearly cut off his hand (pity it wasn't his head !) and so we have been obliged to make shift how best we could. We have this week been our » own "cook, slut, and butler," as the saying is—"everything by turns and nothing long" . —and begin to think that it is almost time to invest in a mangle, or a basket of tapes. Thank Q-oodnepsf one's life's insured! But the coach will soon be here, and the press stands.!

. A Viciobian- papnr states that:—" In connection with tlie enquiries made into the several cases of dummyism, alleged to have been perpetrated on the'Wimmera, we understand that a squatter's'fund,'amounting'to £5600, and which'is likely to be considerably increased, has been raised with the view of having cases of dumtuyism amongst selectors who are not squatters enquired into. The station holders think that what is sauce for the one class is sauce for the other, and if Mr. Casey does not show his impartiality in continuing the enquiry amongst " the -other" class, the matter will be put in the hands of Mr. Trench, whose duty it will be to ' make the Minister of Lands deal out even handed justice, all round. At least, this is the programme at present. It looks very much as though Mr.'Casey lial stumbled on a hornets' »!?sfc... There is no saying where'this business nervy end .or what ifc will lead to—eventual good'.no doubt," though it is quite possible it may be at the expense of the Minister of Land's popularity and position " A Cobbespondext writes to the ' G-uardian':

—"I don't know how it is with you, but 'Good Tempkrism' at Wellington is going *; ahead with very vapid strides, and I should not be surprised if it became before long a very important political institution, which may make or mar some of our future Ministries. Ghould it do so, it will not be without warning, as one of its avowed principles is to return only such members as "go the whole hog" as to total abstinence, other considerations being altogether ignored when compared with this one great " shibboleth" in future candidates, and seeing how complete its organisation is becoming, it yet may be a powerinthe State which it will become the State -to watch, in the interests of the general.public, otherwise there may be some startling results at next general election. At present tbey are, I understand, preparing for a general crusade against the public-houses at, next annual licensing day, aud I believe a good many efforts will be made to bring the restrictive clauses of the Permissive Bill into force. Every day now we are treated to one or two columns of advertisements in the 'lndependent' on the subject, but in several instances tbe appeals have been so intemperate in their language that they have done more harm th.in good to the cause." Btxbing- the hearing of the, case of White v. ; M'Kellar, at the Supreme Court, D'unedin, there were such a number of jokes bandied about, and " bon-mots" and "jeuxd'esprit" "flying round," that it was impossible for the jurymen and others to keep from breaking into a smile now and again. Indeed, in the way of good things, the lasf day was without doubt the " field-day" of the session. It "is impossible .to commit to paper every little bit of sparkle or repartee, but we may brielly chronicle the principal one of the day. A witness, in speaking of the difficulties which sheep farmers had to contend against, referred to the injury which the sheep suffered from the " bush lawyers." One of'the learned gentlemen engaged in the case presumed that this was on account of the wool being torn from their backs by the "lawyers" in question. Witness replied that the operation was usually known as that of "■ fleecing" Another lawyer presumed that black sheep suffered the -most ; and the Judge then observed that when sheep got among the lawyers there was always a loss to somebody. Mr. Smith, in imploring the Court not to be too hard upon the lawyers, thought tin's was the only joke which the case had yet brought fort!;:. After this, two or three other jokes passed, but thei- brilliancy altogether faded before the one übove.—'Guardian/