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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 281, 25 July 1874, Page 3

Saturday's Advertisements. EOFESSOR EUCE: MESMERIST & PHRENOLOGIST, win appear ; THIS <SATTnS&Y) MAS OIOC HALLV The Dujistan coach did not make Naseby . till after six p.m. last night. Nettlefold did not think it prudent, considering the dangerous state: of the road, to go farther. We notice from an advertisement in the ? Dunstan Times' that Mr. E. T. George's Victoria Hotel is for sale, or -will be leased for two years. This very eligible property is well worth inspection. The following gentlemen have been re turned as Mayors for their different districts Clyde, Naylor; Alexandra, Samson;, CromwelL Jollv;Tuapeka, Hay; Betts; Tokomaifiro, GoodalL The Warden was occupied most of yesterday in iearing a dispute of a very important nature—being a question as to the power of the Court to decree forfeiture of portions of water race left unused for extended periods without declaring the whole race forfeited. Judgment reserved until the 31st inst. Me: Hobace Bastings, in his address to his constituents at Lawrence, in referring is reported in tne ' Tuapeka Times i y — u If ifr is wrong for a Goldfields member to hold twooflices, surely it is wrong for any other member to hold several; unless, indeed, they wMr to ignore the Goldfields altogether. What is this but a slight upon a large and important interest? And I am;sorry to find that a member representing a Goldfields constituency could be found who would take office on such terms. I have no desire to set up the Goldfields interest against any other; bat, when we hear .such remarks as 'that the country has been made desolate by the Goldfields industry of the Province,' it is enough to make one speak out very boldly. Why, if not for the discoveries of gold where we now have our townships, municipalities, farms, churches, and all the other concomitants of-civilisation, but for this industry, the Colony would have been a wilderness for years to come. We must als» remember that the day will come when we shall only be too glad to have recourse to our Goldfields for employment of our population. Wool and produce may not always be at their present prices ; and one thing we ought always to endeavor to avoid during the progress of our Public Works scheme, is the concentration of our population in tlie large towns. I have noticed in my travels tbrough the Province a desire on the part of manv up country people to become residents of Dunedin, everything seeming in such a flourishing condition there. This is to be regretted, because things will soon become bad in ,Dunedin if every one rushes there. If DunI edm is Jtb, hold its own, we must have Jn the. up-country districts."