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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 315, 12 March 1875, Page 2

A number of new advertisements will be seen on our fourth page. Tenders are called for a post and telegraph office at St. Bathans. Everyone should go to Mr. Armstrong's lecture on Tuesday night at. the Town Hull The tickets are only one shilling. Mr. J. P. Armstrong, surgeon-dentist, is lo be at St. Bathans on the 17th, remaining one week. , . . The town millers have further lowered the price of flour 30s. per ton, the price now being £lO 10s. The Rev. J. M'Cosh Smith and Dr. Wliitton have received ad eundem degrees fiom the Senate of the Xc.v University. Tek ' Tnapcka Times' reports that Mr. Horace Bastings will stand for the Assembly at the next general election for tho Mount Benger district. A Uiti'fr from "A Bachelor" on State education, and Mr. Armstrong's tipws thereon, came in 100 late for this issue. Will be published next week. A few races were got up on Saturday last to wind up the meeting. £'2s was given by the Club, and divided into three races. Cotton's Envy won the first, and Poster's Charlie the two others. The Cliib are to be congratulated on being able to conclude "vhe meeting without accidents or disputes. " >"* On Saturday last Mr. Armstrong lec\~red at Kyeburn Diggings in aid of the local s-jaool. A number of tickets were disposed of, and a fair "audience were present. We understand that the lecturer at the conclusion offered himself for political dissection the work, however, was postponed sine die. Persons desirous to register can obtain, the forms by application to the Registration Officer at the Court House, Naseby. Secretary's of Progress Committees could no 1 doubt, have small parcels of forms sent to t'.iem by defraying the postage. A few can be obtained and filled up at our office, or at Mr. L. W. Busch's, Naseby. . Owing to the absence of Mr. WilliamSan-j ders the District Land Court, summoned for the Bth instant, had to be adjourned to the 22nd. Two applications for water rights out of the Eweburn and Spring Creeks, to lead on to the Eweburn agricultural block, constituted tbe principal business. There was also anappbeationunderdeferred payments atMacrato »Inch there was an objection.

;The clearing : out : , unreserved sale by auction of stock in ,hand jit 'Messrs. .J. and. K. Btfemnera comiu'encew l last riigbt'. ' The sale will'continue on "Friday:anil is&tutday evenings, whW "everything rrimijt' A| capital chance is.pffered to those wishing tcLday... stores, fgr the'winter.' Several hprses, 'express 1 also to be sold.' • ? ■■ i. , r •

Amongst the notifications in the last Government Gazette are ■ the appointments of Messrs. T. B. Gillies and J. S. Williams as Judges of the Supreme Court, and orders in Council assigning the district of Westland to the jurisdiction of Mr. Justics Johnston, and the Nelson district to Mr. Justice Gillies. Mr. Frendergaat 'visits Dunedin. EEFSBKiNQ._tp the resignation of the member for Kaikorai, the Guardian states.— "As far as wc can lsarn, Mr. Koberfc's stay at Home will be-of the very, least period, and, if he can be induced to retain his seat, we are quite certain the electors of the district will be the gainers thereby. -We but endoraethe opinion of everybody who knows him when we say it would be no easy matter for Kaikorai to replace its present representative, than whom the Council contains no more intelligent or conscientious member.

_ Sir George Grey has published. an expression of hia views, in which he promises to follow popular sentiments in relation to the abolition of Provincialism; but contends for expounding the system which it is proposed to substitute, for application of principle to the whole Colony, and that any amendment to the constitution will be first "submitted to the constituencies. The address is considered most liberal, likely to meet'with general apprjval, and removes objections hitherto entertained.- -

Mr. John Reid, Elderslie, writes to the ' North Otago Times■ "It may be of interest to some of your ' farmer friends' to know the yield of the black Norwegian oats which 1 got-from Australia two years ago. I commenced thrashing a 35i)-acre paddock of them a -few days ago. The first fifteen hours' thrashing gave 480 bags of first and second, the total averaging four bushels per bag, and at the rate of ninety-six bushels per acre for the space cleared. Some parts of the field grew a denser crop than what is now thrashed.

A meeting of the members of the Cricket Club was held, in Horswell's Koyal Hocel on Monday evening last There were present— Messrs. Clarke, Wade, Parker, and Ash.— The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.—The Treasurer reported that a balance of £4 6s. 6d. remained to the credit of the Club.—Accounts to the amount of 18s. 6d. were passed for payment. .Resolved, "That a member of this Club be appointed to attend a meeting called for Tuesday evening next (9th instant), and make an offer, in the event of a Football Club being formed (the purpose of the convention), to amalgamate the Cricket Club with the football Club—provided that the present members of the Club be admitted members of the Football Club less the admission fee—being, however, subject to levies or other subsc.iptions: the Club to donate the cricketing/material in its possession and its funds, £3 Bs." Resolved, '' That, in the event of tha ofie? of the Club not being accepted, the Secretary dispose of, by public auction, the cricketing material, and donate the Club's funds (together with the product of the sale) to the Hospital; and that the Secretary be entitled to receive subscriber s tickets to the amount handed over."—Messrs. Wade and Ash were appointed to attend the meeting of Tuesday evening. After passing a vote of thanks to the Secretary for his services, the meeting adjourned, sine die. '

The meeting called by advertisement of those favorable to the formation of a Football Club was held in the Waterworks Office on Tuesday evening.. There was a rather poor attendance. The object of the meeting was stated, and a long"list of promised members read. It was resolved that a Club be formed, to be called the Mount Ida Football CI ub j and that a* football be immediately procured, and practice commenced. Messrs. Wade and Ash, a deputation from the Cricket Club, stated the object of their attendance, viz., " That the Cricket Club was willing to conjoin with the Football Club, provided that its present'members be admitted less, the admission fee—being subject to levies or other subscriptions and that the Club would donate its cricketing material and its funds £3 Bs. Resolved that the offer be accepted. Messrs.' Rigg and Ash were appointed interim Treasurer and Secretary. The ■meeting then adjourned, till Saturday even-: ing next, when a more influential gathering is anticipated. "We hope this new spirit of the athletes of Naseby will flourish and prosper.

Th'S is the way the 'Cromwell Argus' put it. We need not say our contemporary's informant had drawn entirely upon a fertile imagination:- " We were yesterday informed of a fight between two men at Hill's Creek—a small township below the Dunstan—which had a fatal termination. Our informant states that on Thursday evening last the men, named Clyde and Turnbul], had a stand-up fight, sn 1 after a round or two agreed to "have it out" next morning. Accordingly the men, together with seconds duly appointed, ,&c.,- again commenced the combat. The brutal scene had not proceeded far when Clyde dealt his adversary a violent blow, in the abdomen, our adversary thinks, which felled Turnbull to the ground. On being raised by his second, the unfortunate man had only power to exclaim, " I'm done," when he fell back and expired. If the particulars, as given us, are correct, no doubt the man-slayer and his abettors will be called upon to answer for their crime. The deceased man, Turnbull, is said to have been one of three brothers residing in the localitv of Hill's Creek."

From the year's returns it would appear that the work at the Naseby R.M. Court, and generally—always excepting Hamilton—throughout the district courts, is not of a nature. At Naseby civilly £ll6l 19s 3d. was.suedf6r, and£s44iecovered. AtHyde £ll4 7s. 9d. was sued for, and £l2 13s. 2d. recovered. At St. Bathans £ll4 18s. 7d was sued for, and £47 10s. 3d. recovered. At Macraes £ 122 15s. Bd. was sued for, and £4l 3s. recovered. At Hamilton there were no cases at all. At Naseby 92 males and 11 females were tried criminally, 5 were discharged, 28 males and 2 females werj dismissed, and two males committed for trialleaving 62 males and nine femiles summarily convijted. At Macraes 16 males and 4 females were tried, 1. male and 1 female were discharged, 2 males and 1 female dismissed—leaving 13 males and 2 females summarily convicted. At St. Bathans 7 males were tried, I was discharged, 1 dismissed, and 5 summarily convicted. At Hyde 5 were tried. 1 discharged, and 4 summarily convicted. If to this weaddthe enormously heavy budgets of technical business in the Warden's Court, and the very many heavy cases heard before the Warden* or the Warden and assessors, the work <loao by the "csident Magistrate an-.] Warden in the year will he found to be heavy in the extreme. This work too, it must be remembered, is peripatetic.