PROVINCIAL AND GENERAL ITEMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 315, 12 March 1875, Page 3

PROVINCIAL AND GENERAL ITEMS.

- """-"'J The Cyphrenes has Auck- : land with the EnglishJand American mails. It is reported, that will have charge of district additionally during the latter. '•__ *.•' '>' r> Mr. James Miller, whogls"leavin<T fhe - Arrow district, has with ; a_ locket and address'from the Mining Association. The town salKcrfbing for a gold watch to he presented ; to him. An inquest v/as lielil at ; Black's ' 3rd instant, before Mr. Simpson-, li.M:, on the body of Jafnes Clou stefn, . whfr.rnet his I death on the Ist instant by falling from a : dray. From the evidenc'g given -"at' the inquest it that the deceased was driving an empty dray, and that the horses took Iright and bolted, throwing deceased out. The jury returned a verdict of acci - dental death.

We hardly expected anything-so lively in a stock brokers commercial .report,. Mr. J. Reid Mackenzie in a report.: writes :—We may now .shortly expect to learn by cable that the j|4,()()0,000: has been floated, and from the easy state of the London money market' (discounts being only 3 J per .cent.) upon very satis--factory terms, as no other portion of her .Majesty's dominions stands, and mostjustly. so, in higher reputeiin financial and commercial circles, and vvhat is of great moment with the Fourth|Estate than the colony we live-in, owing tf-the bold, wise, and enlightened policy o|her rulers' and statesmen, despite and --friotwithstandiiig croakers and birds of _ evil women, which are not altogether ■indigenous to this highly-favored are' occassional!}' to be met with if i-other portions of the civilised and uncivilised- world. -11 is really much to be • until the arrival < f the Greck Kalends and the-race v.tilv unlike the moa and mastodon, not become extinct, but will live, move, and have their being—an infliction which'more hopeful beings must endure " with what appetite they may." £ , ( Everybody knows how sweet is forbidden fruit. The history of man's existence commences with an episode of this sort; and the descendants of Eve are just as eager to possess themselves of the one particular thing withheld -fno matter what shape it assume—as were .'our first parents in the Garden of Eden. . Especially is this craving perceptible in the case of those who delve for the kihg of metals : — gold. Everyone who has been connected with, or resident in, the goldfields is cognisant of this peculiarity. . Enclose a gar den or paddock—any scrap of land, be it ever so small, out of fifty thousand acres anywhere on the goldfields fence in one, •md forthwith, in the miner's estimation, the whole world becomes valueless in comparison with the fraction which is prescribed. Ohinemuri has been just such forbidden ground, the < nly difference being that it is of larger ex'ent, and it has followed, as a matter of course, that the aggregate mining mind' has come to the illogical conclusion th-it, because it has been withheld, it must be a rich. goldfield. —'Guardian.'

Two prisoners were lately acquitte of a theft, 'ihe circuit judge told them not to come there again, or they might not be so fortunate. One of the prisoners said, " No, my lord ; we should not have come now if we had not been brought."