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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 258, 13 February 1874, Page 2

Mr. Hurst of Auckland, has bought Mr. Graham's imported ram and Conditional tenders are called for abridging the Clutha Paver at Alexandra. Some miners at the Blue Spur are reported to be fitting out a vessel for whaling purposes. The English mail, via Suez, closes: at the district post office ou Monday, the 16th instant. The balance-sheet of the Naseby Cemetery Trust is to be seen in the last Provincial Gazette.' Tenders are called-, for the building of a new Catholic Church at Naseby, on a different site. The prospectus, of the Mount Ida Pastoral •■Company (liinitedjiis publishedsin'our'advertismg columns. OUR Maerewhenna correspondent, in another. column, gives independent testimony to the value of'the Maniototo Plains for agricultural purposes.. The Illustrated New-Zealand Herald of' this month has a pretty view of Blueskin, a an All-Englandv cricket match in Australia, and other well-executed engravings The 'Daily Times' says that a quantity fluming is being made consisting of 850 ''pipes ■each.il inch.;.diameter. -for. .sluicingv purposes;to the order of Messrs. Grayson and Co., , Naseby. • ' Mb. A. CLARKE, M.H.R, for Franklin, has resigned his seat. Mr. Da'rgaville is a candidate for, the vacancy. Mr. R. H. Rhodes, :M. has alao_resigned, owing to ill -health. At Blackstone Hill the paddocks under crop, although not forward, appear he'avy and succulent. If the weather is favorable c for harvesting, the returns should repay the farmers for their energy, and.perseverance. The well- known racehorse Don Juan hasdied suddenly. ;I's . deathis':believ'edtoiliave been caused ly an old complaint. The - horse was sufferi .g before the Cup race. A post mortem examination is ordered. | -OilM onday last, it'is reported the light- , ninjpit Black's killed a horse and set fire to 1 a dwellinghouse. We have* not heard of i damage i elsewhere. No rain fell at St. Bathans. The fDistrict Court, was,f*on*<?Wednesday■ last, adjourned till Friday morning, the 13th" i instant,when a, final declaration„ in,the- estate of R Keenan, of iN aseby, a bankrupt, will be given by his Honor Judge Wdson Gray. • I/Ir\ Kennedy; whose concerts in Duriedin drew cro vvded house 3 -night' after: niglit,' is to - be at the M>asonicjHall, :Naseby;<. on' Monday-: and Tuesday, the 23rd and 24th inst. We do. not know ( that so, genuine an entertainment' has ever before been offered to the Naseby public. ~ . ; ..TiiE'Hawlre'sßayHerald'says':—■'Through; out the colony there is' but,, one' om ion regarding .the,late.:disa.st'roußiwreck'Of the Surat; ■ namely, that, jthe conduct of the and' of the majority of his subordinates m'tTie ? mat : - ter, is deserving of the severest censure."-' The Melbourne papers;Stongly support the-action - taken by'the Court of»Eaquir-. - . • The ' North Otago Times' is credibly informed . that, a fashionably idressed.lady,-'whilst • walking past a building' m eourse of' erection in Pnnces-street, Duhedin, a few days aso, received on her head a hodful of bricks,' she merely cast aloft one withering glance, mutwardifello w,''-s adjuste~d';lier'tower--ing cranid upholstery,-and sailed grandly away, as nothing had happened.j GENEEAiiWoiiSEiiETandtheßritishforcesun-; der his command reaclied*the River:Prahe ; : on; the Ist, January About an hour "after his | arrival he was met by ambassadors from the King of Ashantee, bearing letters asking for peace Sir Garnet .Wolseley replied, tliat-he would only treat with the King ,'himself at Coornassie, whereupon the, ambassadors returned. The.fitth Naval Brigade crossed the Pvahe on the' sth of last month.

Thb 20th of April is tlie day-" fixed for applications ( to be'made-at the -Land .Office, Naseby, for. sections,on'deferred payments m the blocks of 2,soo'and 2,000 acres at Macrae's Plat and Hyde. The block on the Poolburn, at Ida Valley, is to be applied for at the Land Office, Clyde, on the 9th March. Applications must be made personanyi 'andia deposit of Is. 3d. "per acre be .paid in cash. The usual monthly meeting of the Mount Ida District School Committee was lipid on Monday evening last. Mr. W. Inder was appointed to the chair.—The business of electing a" Chairman and Secretary was deferred.—A letter was read from Mr. Menzies. —Uesolved that Messrs.- Rowlatt and Inder be appointed Auditors for the year 1874. Resolved that the letter from the Schoolmaster be considered at meeting to be held on Tuesday next, 17th inst.

The sale of booths, &c., for the ensuing -race meeting was commenced on Thursday' evening. The grand stand was first offered, and slowly advanced to £34. As no higher bid ; could be got the auctioneer offered £39 i for the Committee, and-announced that he was instructed not lo sell unless the'grand stand realised at least £39. . Tne sale would stand adjourned for a week unless the pro-' perty was disposed of in 'one lot privately. . Late CA ..I/EQ- < ams to - the.7«lst /-February state wi"h. regard to the English elections' that: —The , Conservative candidates are opposing the re-election of the right Hon. W.' E. Gladstone for Greenwich.—The pollings at' the; elections will : be given / next -week —The; former members for' Birmingham, the Eight Hon. John Bright, P. H. Muntz, and George, ;Pixon, haye,been re-elected unoppo3ed: K.Up| to Saturday last forty-eight members have 5 been elected. Of these, twenty are Liberals,' and twenty-eight Conservatives- Eight Libe- ■ rals have been ousted by Conservative Candida tea. ' 1

| Last . week ourtelegrams announcedthe death of Dr. Livingstone. ' Chained "to Africa, since he buried his wife there, by abl sence of object elsewhere—by love of enteric prise— and, more than- all, by his ever-in-creasing desire to spread the' benefits of a I civihsmg and vital Christianity amongst 'the; barbaric hordes infesting the interior, he preferred to struggle on to the bitter end—preferred the wants of savages before his own honor, ease, and. emolument- under the sight and favor of the English Court. The earth produces too few such men for the regret to fee other than, universal thai Dr. Livingstone is dead. „ _

, By the Margaret Galbraith, which arrived;: lately at Port Chalmers, it,was expected-that'' an old resident (Mr. Louis Evans) at Welshman's Gully, St. Bathans, would have arrived from the, old country, where he had been to look afrer some' property. We are sorry to learn that he died on the voyage from the supposed effects of a bad cold. He leaves two -young children at: Welshman's Gully, we believe (as no will was made on board), totally unprovided for. An appeal will be no doubt made to the relatives in lingland for some provision for these little ones and their mother. 1 Till then, their: own own district should see that they do not want.

Australian telkgaais - statew that rush of produce across to Victoria is amazing:

It is gleaned from various sources that the trade across' the Border since - the opening o/. the railway to ' Wodonga, to February 1, is as - ■ follow :—November, 1,060 bales wool, 490 < bags flour, 100■ bags wlieat-; December, 4,160 ■ bales wool, 770 bags flour, 471 bags wheat ; - January, 1,340 bales wool, 2,285 bags flour, 8,300 bags wheat, 500 casks wine, tobacco _ (manufactured and unmanufactured); about

I 450 packages. Special" trains; are running to - meet the demand ; yet- every available .place, is used for storage. The . .bridge'. I .tolls, have trebled.- The; amount of. the past? week's return of merchandise from Yictoria is

not over the .usual trade. Wheat fell this week from 5s 6d. to 4s. 6d. The celebrated violinist, Mdle. Glaus, accompanied by Mdle. and M. Rekel, are ex- ■ peetedshortly. to .give.aseriesoxentertaiiiments throughout the Province. The -Dunediu ' dtar' of Monday last says : —" In less than a fortnisht-the: musicalrloving portion of our community will bave the pleusure .of. lis- ; tening to the most talented violinist who has' ever been in these southern climes..m The fame;, is of- Jenny Glaus has preceeded her ; and now that it is known that Signor Biscaccianti, her agent, is among us, and has completed ar- • rangements for the appear xnce here of his principal and her assistants, Mdle. and M. Rekel, the date of M.ile. Claus' iirst appearance will be looked forward to, with consider-

able.interest. Last week we omitted to give any notice of the Presbyterian" congregational meeting. The -attendance, beyond the members of the Committee, was very scanty. A most satis-. ' factory, statement was made by the Treasurer, with; regard to the funds of the ChurchY ■ Although the Church was commenced at: a' .- time- when large liabilities on the manse had still to be met, and that fifteen months ago the credit to the funds was only some £l3, yet now the Church is completed and all • debits have been paid with the exception of a trifling overdraft which, in a measure, is covered by payments due. The expenditure for the last fifteen months has been £1,303 17s. 2d.; the receipts, from all sources, £1,173 ■ 19s. 2d., which, together with balances on . -. the credit side of the different funds to the

amount of £69 10s., brings the total sum -to credit £1,243 9s. 2d. leaving ail overdraft of ~ " only £68,: wliich, as we have already stated;'is. • partly covered by amounts due. A debt so - quickly overtaken in ■ a small community, with-'i--out any exertion, is as gratifying, as it is rare. THE first monthly meeting of the Mount lda District Hospital Committee for 1874 was held on the evening of Friday.last. Present: Mr. H. W. Robinson, President (chair) and Messrs. A. M'G. Brown, P. J Greer, .H Anderson, Rev. J, M'Cosh Smith, E.. T. George, W. Inder,. T. Jackson, and D. Barron. —The Surgeon's report which was read, since last report three patients were admitted, six discharged, and three remain in Hospital.—The Visiting Committee's report was read and received.—The Treasurer reported as follows: To credit of institution in bank on January 1st, £134 9s 8d; paying patients, £8; subscriptions, £45 15s. 6d.; total £188 5s. 2d. Subscriptions due to 30th January, £207 7s. 6d.—Accounts and salaries to the amount of £32 13s. 8d. were passed for payment —Resolved, that, Mr. E. Glenn and Mr. H. Wilson act as Auditors for the present year—The Secretary was instucted to enrol the following gentlemen as life subscribers, they being contributors in single sums of the amounts set opposite their respective names, viz. Richard Oliver Esq., M.P.C.; Dunedin, £15; E A. Chapman, Esq., Maniototo, £10; Henry Anderson, Esq., Naseby, £l2 18s.—Messrs. M'Cosh Smith, Greer,"' and Horswell were appointed the Visiting Committee for February.—Resolved, that the Secretary write to the St Bathans Local Committee in reference to Rule 58, and to reply that the Committee do not consider that it requires alteration, as it does.not prevent the admission of young children, but simply requires the Visiting Committee to be consulted, as nurses would require to be engaged for such patients.—The Visiting Committee were authorised to have a well, sunk.and, fixed at reasonable expense. .