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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 311, 12 February 1875, Page 3

- A in the Otago Goldmining Company at St. Bathans is for sale This Uom- : pariy, owing to their pluckj r enterprise, bold, we consider, as valuable a water-right as auy in the district: A share in it should be well, worth' attention"by "investors of capital. "... 0>" Tuesday Inst Mr. Armstrong, M P C-, waited upon l:is Honor the .■■■"Superintendent, by rc-qaest of Ihe M;iy-»r of Xaseby Tespeetiug :i" cowrmnica'ifii from i Coi-isorsj itm .requesting that the labor of prisoners might be. available to the Corporation for public worts purposes. His Honor s:dd thut he had' received a letter from - the Commissioner of; Police, asking thai, the practice of em-* ploying,prisoners :in up-eountry gaols might b; dispensed with, as it. was impossible- to keep t. 'e.n under proper supervision ; also ilist I liey wire mm •< e sarily to .temptation;' ■while, nt the same time, tne of Police deprecated the practice'of' shrrt sentence prisoners undergoing their subject" io the'pubUeg'ize His Hoii<-r.thought" the obieetioim of the police quite reasonable" . pKE.pf _the works, entailing possibly'mori) ' responsibility than any other, in connection with the Mount Ida Public Works,-is quiet- ■' ly being proceeded with in Coal Pit Gully, about two miles from ifaseby. Taking, advantage of the natural feature's of the groivnd, the engineers propose to enclose about t«n acres of water by the construction ot a iiigh embankment. The contract is in the hands of Mr. Currie, who has fortunately struck, a magnificent seam of blue clay in the immediate vicinity of his -work, -which is most -, easily got at. and would bea kid ail fortune in the hands of anyone enterprising enough to start a brick-kiln. The best clay possible is on the ground, any quantity of the finest sand, and lignite for burning exists—if not" immeiliately: underneath the clay it-self, as we expect—-visibly within a stone's throw. '• The-works in progress will repay a visitbeing within easy foot distance.