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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 310, 6 February 1875, Page 3

A shakb in the Otago Goldmining Company at St. Batbans is for sale. Thiß Company, owing to their plucky enterprise, hold, we consider, as valuable a water-right as any in the district. A sbare in it should be wen. worth attention by investors of capital. Os Tuesday las! Mr. Armstrong, MP.C' waited tipon his. Honor the Superintendent, by request of the Mayor of Kaseby respecting a communication from the Corporation requesting that the labor of prisoners might be available to the-Corporation fur public works purposes. His Honor snid that he had Jiibreceived a letter from -the Commissioner of Police, asking that the practice' l of employing prisoners in up-country gaols might b3 ( dispensed with, as it was impossible to keep them under proper supervision; also, thnt th y wereunneco suri'y exposed to temptation; while, at the same time, the Commi=bioner of Police deprecated the practice of short sen tence prisoners undergoing their punishment subject to the public gaze. His Honor thought the objections of the police quite reasonnble One of the works, entailing possibly more responsibility than any other, in connection with the Mount Ida Public Works, is quietly being proceeded with in Coal Pit Gully, about two miles from Naseby. Taking advantage of the natural features of the ground, the engineers propose to enclose about ten acres of water by the construction of a high embankment. The contract is in the hands of Mr. Currie, who has fortunately struck & magnificent seam of blue clay hi the immediate vicinity of his work, which is most easily got at, and would, be a small fortune in the hands of anyone enterprising enough to Btart a brick-kiln. The best clay possible is on the ground, any quantity of the finest sand, and lignite for burning exists—if not immediately underneath the clay itself, as we expect— - visibly within a stone's throw. The works in progress will repay a visit—being within easy foot distance. -