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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 298, 13 November 1874, Page 2

Tbe British representative at'the Yatican, i has been withdrawn. '" '•'-"'. Theeb are now five clrirch.es, belonging t»- . differentdenominations, at'the Teviot.""'°_ St. Bathans Races are fixed for the" "26th and 28fch. of December. Dr. Pitltney ha3"been' "surgeon to the Loyal Mount Ida Lod^e. Town sales to be held throughout the district, in, December, are advertised in this" issue' ■,t ;. . - '.}. .-' -. ' " >' .The Indian Government officially confirms the report of the capture of Nana Sahib by the Mah*>j«j of Scinde in Gwaliort ' The rate of consumption of, water is "greater in Glasgow Scotch town excontemporary. * . : - A Quosuir of members of any Licensing , Court under the amendment Act of 1874 ia^ 1 fixed by a proclamation in the ' Gazette","" .whereby three members are declared sufficient to constitute such quorum. Mr. Thomas Gjregsoh-was brought into the Hospital, from the Sowburn, Buffering from the effects of a fall of earth, which had fractured some of his ribs. He is, we learn progressing very well. , * The Secretary to the School Committee informs us, he has received an intimation • from the Provincial Treasury, that £SO has been credited to the school fund, towards fencing the building. -- . Mb J. L..Gillies addressed his constituents last week,' at Milton:—At the close of the meeting a resolution was carried endors- - mg Mr. Gillies's conduct in the Provincial council and affirming that he still retained the confidence of the electors of Milton Mr. H. Clark, M.P.C., on behalf of Mr Gill Ilea's friends ,and constituents, presented . him, with a purse of 75 sov., alter the meeting was over, at the Commercial Hotel. pssWßgeta shadowy glimpse of the Maerejfohenua River Pollution case (Borton and M Master v Howe and party). On the sth. Mr. Haggitt applied for leave to take this case into the Court of Appeal-a case had been prepared. Mr. Maoassey, for the opposite side, consented; and leave was • granted— Hio Honor however, intimating that the business of the Court of Appeal wis uniisually heavy— as muca as to to tfle - learned counsel: Go, by all means! but don't you wish yon may get it ?

Tub Dunedm Harbor Board have done one wise ram-at any rate, in ' appointing Mr. D. L. bimpson as their engineer. We are quite satisfied that no work of any ma<xrutude: upon -Provincial or any other secmities will be undertaken until a most searchJig and thorough examination hag been, ma.de

of the whole Harbor, from the Heads to Dunedin -wharves. Mr. Simpson, it will be remembered, was the'only engineer consulted by the originating Dunedin Committee or the Government who refused to report on suppositious or unverified data. ( An Aucklnnd correspondent of the ' Guardian', gives the following :—As tin instance of the supineness of the residents in political matters I may tell you that, notwithstanding the present momentous period of our history," Messrs. Buukland and May members of the Bouse of Representatives, who culled a meeting of the Franklin electorate at Otahuhu last week, were unable to attract a larger audience than six of the free ' and independent. *The members smiled » ghastly smile, invited the assembled half-dozen to Kogers's bar, and returned home wiser, if not sadder, men. „Mr. Bnckland can scarcely make any complaint upon the score of political apathy, remembering that it is only Borne twelve * months since, as he was riding by the Newmarket toll-gate, he pulled up and was created an M. P. 0., whether he would or not. Wlt/LUM EpWAHD G-riefbn, who wan received into, Dunedin Gaol on October 22, under a sentence of three months' imprisonment 4 in default of a lino of £SO, for exposing alcoholic drink for J sale at Macrae's, was on Saturday last, discharged from gaol owing to an informality in the commitment. This case was argued before his Honor Mr. Justice Chapman in Banco on Saturday, when Mr. ' E. Cook appeared for Griifen, and Mr. Stout for Mr. Cnldwell, the Governor of the Gaol, the committing Magistrate being represented by Mr. Howorth. After argument his Honor held the objection to be fatal, and during the afternoon Mr. Caldwell was served with an Order from the - Supreme Court commanding him tj discharge Griffon, who was therefore released from custody. A SPECIAL meeting called by Captain Stephens, was hold at the Empire Hotel to consider ways and means to raise funds for the Brigade. Present: Messrs. G.Stephens .(Captain), Millar, Morrison, Hall, Costelloe, .Collett, J. J. Smith, Kirby, Chapman, Langmaak, Pinder, Baxter, Botting, M'Donald, Cogan, Tootell and Brookes. After considerable discussion it was proposed by Mr. Collett that the Brigade send in their resignations as a body to the Council, on account of not receiving any support to their funds, ,seconded by Mr. Langmaak, and carried. It .was proposed by Mr.. M'Donald that a Committee be appointed, to consist of Messrs. Stephens, Brookes, and Costelloe, to draw ithe money from the Bank, and hold it in trust for the members at. present resigned from the Brigade seconded by Mr. Millar, and'carried. Proposed by Mr. Brookes, that the Secretary write to absent members, informing them of their arrears, and that a meeting will be held at the Empire Hotel on the 23rd inst., to provide for the disposal of the Bank balance—absentees to forfeit their share in any dividend that might ensue, seconded by Mr. M 'Donald, and carried. Thb Switzers lopal Association is "decidedly of opinion that it is an injustice to the (roldflplds us a whole that large sums of monpy should be granted to favorite districts for head races, tail races, and sludge channels until such time as the special taxation which presses so heavily upon every miner on the Goldfields is removed." The Switzers Committee must be ignorant that the works they • allude to are defrayed out of the Colonial purse, while the taxation they so justly complain of is collected for, and goes to, the existence of Provincialism.

Sie James Fergosson' has replied to Sir George Grey's celebrated petition:—" It appears to his Excellency that in praying him to summon the General Assembly immediately, ancl transmit your petition to her Majesty's Government, you propose he should act„independently of, if not in opposition to, his responsible advisers, a course which would be justified only by great and exceptional emergencies." And referring to the objects to be giined—"As his Excellency is aware, there is not on the part of the Government of Now Zealand any intention to make application to the Imperial Government to propose any such measure to Parliament, or that there is any necessity for so doing to 'enable the General Assembly, in the exeroise of it legitimate functions, to , carry out in its next session, by specific legislation, the constitutional changes which by resolution in its recent session, it declared 10 be advisable. His Excellency hopts that, with further information on this point, you will be satisfied that the prayer of your petition ought not to be complied with, and that it is also needless to make telegraphic communication to her Majesty's Government of a fact which must be known to them—as it might be supposed to have heen known to every person in this colony—that there is no person ' qualified' (if by that expression in your petition is mqant accredited) to negotiate or communicate with her Majesty's Government on the abolition of provincial institutions." But bis Excellency goes on to say, "he will, in consideration of the opinion of one so highly qualified, transmit any representation Sir George Grey may desire to make directly through him as the appointed channel to her Majesty in regard to New Zealand affairs."