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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 268, 25 April 1874, Page 3

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Dunadia. Friday, 8.30 o m -J Tim • f-hiir I'. ,n ' tljn „, , -,i „ , , ti v * t -jj4 lea "or r-i 11« .T u (»<, irr,vtm!» vi ar 1. r f inspection of nil lirrv-Mi y •> 11 u***-n-yin Ball's ciic Mwimi»\ uimhU mnmtj for mile adjust, i!»> editor i.i; A« ~..„=,,. .-i;;.

Mr. Dixox, late of has been uppointed schoolmaster at tlie JBaiinocliburjQ. a EvbbY' license applied for at the Licensing Court, Clyde, and every transfer of license was granted. An English mail via San Francisco mny be' expected to close at tlie district post offices on Friday, the Ist of May. Hokitika, with a population of between ] three and four thousand, contains no leas than i seventy-three public-houses. !

The sale of St. Bathans township will not be gazetted till the inhabitants have had an opportunity of showing, by memorial or otherwise, to the Waste Lands Bo mi the in-l'-istice thnt -would be'dons t.hein if tli 'iiu-jet price minuuiiU'J of £\2 li>s. p;-r a.-criun i* in-' J isicl <m No township on a nmin li..y of rjad has ever ben sold at this rate. The ' T.i-ippfca Times' justly rfmarls« -. >Vh.it'.:V(.r lihily JimtV • •i.-'''o'- l ,Ju-(i:i Indian' may tsi ink fo tin; cuivr-iiy, if,. M-jII-j way's address uarrit-s su'Jieicnt with it to show the good effect the action tnkt'n bv the Roxburgh people is likeiy to produje* Mr. Holloway says he would" not h<» justifi. d in bringing his friends to V— * Z ■aliiod til J ?•.• receives a; guarantee' Irutn Uiu Q-overtmi'-ut, UiiLt the Land Laws .iih b.» m ~e libi'iuily a.lmin stercd.

Otf StitunlMV last, the 18th inat., between >'levcn an.l i f'l-c *in , il.,- fire bell nealeri forth i f « most unwclco-ri* notes, and ongoing to tl«s street wo at, vim: kiw hj, and <liw.' ') m 1? of-s" fk- is-iimir (i-»..i whnt we thought to be th» oH Nart'.n-il \hvA Wan pug :tt. once lo tho uoeu<! of ih» Sr« »t» di<xMver«.'il it. to be in » c!inter of buil-lingn at. the roar of the old hotel, and now used .a? ■•tables and store roon\« by Mr. ii<>U, Mr Aldridge, utid Mr M'l'h.'jvm The town race, -which is riiiiniu-r c-luau oy, bciiw -well sunpliorl with w«h»r, and a large number of willing hands quickly gathered a strinsr of bucket* irni immediately fo--;iod, and a great qu-mtify of water was-brought to bear on tlie flames, under which they quickly hut nnt bi>fo<-<\ however, a good deal of djmiiijij vnu done—several of the budding* boiug completely gutted and rendered useless. Mr. Unit. i 8 the principal lojer, as brcsides the damage done to the building.*, which were his, s;p loses a do'ih'e and a pine;!? set of buggy harness, besides a quantity of bedding, fodder, snd other property. Mr. M'Pberscm'ji loajw aru a set of harness and a lot of k ropes o4d Work* : in Mr. M'i'lierson's stablai-were *ereral di urns of-pitch, which, af<cr some difficulty were got our.. Hut they i»iuted thero u zr> telling where the fire, wo'uld hi'Vr e:icl<'d The fire is supposed to have been caused by some children playing with matches, as, after the excitement was over, a number of matches u."ignited, were found, apparently as if dropped by'one of the children when running away, and after they had discovered 1 - the mischief done. None of the property was insured.— Dunstan Times' \

An inquest, was 'je-Id ye.«forday- : at Scherp's Hotel, Sowburn. before* W. Q-runutt, Esq , J.P., acting coroni-/-, on \sw of the body of Oliver Jack-ion, who died uuddecly tlio d>ry previous. 3?rom the evidence it appeared that Jackson hart been long at work, iiuifi wa» engaged in turning a win?e> whi"i he com plained .if pain," and sat-down, and *.nou- atler expired. A post mortem exutnlnation, wa made by Dr. i)ick. w'lose eviduuL-e.tmi led lo show that tilt- of /death was o the-heart. The jury refrurued a verdict that deceased died from the visitation of God.