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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 282, 31 July 1874, Page 3

The Dunstan coach did not make Ns Bel y 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 c 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, Baylor; Alexandra, Samson;: Cromwell, Jolly; Tuapeka, Hay; Queenstown, Betts; Tokomairiro, Goodall.

The Warden was occupied most of-yester-day in hearing a dispute of a very important nature —being a question as, to the power of the Court to decree forfeiture of portions of water vaoe left unused for extended periods-, without declaring the whole race forfeited. Judgment reserved until the 31st inst. Mb. Hobace Bastin&s, in his address to *"" his constituents at Lawrence, in -referring to the Goldfields and the Goldfields Secretarv, is reported in the «Tuapeka Times :'—" If it. is wrong for a Goldfield member to hold two"' offices, surely it is wrong for any other member to hold severe,'; unles3, indeed, they wish to ignore the Goldfields altogether. What is this but a slight upon a large and important interest ? And lam sorry to find that a member representing a Goldfields constituency could be found -who wouid take ofiice on such terms. I have no desire to set up the Goldfields interest'against any other ; but, when we hear such remarks as ' that the country has been made desolate by the Goldfielde 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; u unicipalities, farms, schools, churches, and all the other concomitants of civilisation, but for this, industry, the Colony would have been a. wilderness for yea,rs to come. We must also remember that the day will come when we: : shall only be tco glad to have recourse to one: Goldfields for .employment of our population: Wool and pi-oduce 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 the large towns. I have noticed in my travels through the Province a desire on' the part of _mauy up country people to become residents of Dunedin, everything seeming in such a flourishing condition there. This is to be regretted, because, thi'igs will soon become bad ia Dunedin if every one rushes there. If Duuedin is to hold its own, we must L>a"?a•population in the up country districts."