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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 317, 26 March 1875, Page 2

-Another cake, over 1;090 ounces, is 'Bendigo.Tiik banks will oe closed at r Naseby on Good Friday. Easter Monday, and ths iuter•vening.Saturday./ ' ' K.L .- i ■ >

Mr. A. D. Bell, of Waihemo, is gazetted a Licensing"Gdminission.er for jVJapraes district,. Hollands-resigned. Ssow fell oii Monday night,,-quickly disappearing./iii; the c>f Tuesday. All through" • Tuesday /"occasional slidwersr fell, and a.cold;and ; "boiSfc'erous : wiud blew all: day.

- All tho33.notalrea:ly'on*the electoral roll neglecting to register before Wednesday next, the 31st inatarrtT' will be dtbarred from voting atiths next general election. A number- of dog 3 have been poisoned in Nasseby during' tie . last week. .Good - and. .valuable dogs have nob in some 'instances escaped. ;

- -Lvacnns easily won the Australian Gun ; Galumny won 'the Brunswick^"Stakes,, with Tiurliue' second ; and Luriihe ran sedoiid ih the Keela Stakes. 1 Gaptain- Baldwin's interest in tbe.staiion' owned by himself and Mr. Roberts has been. Handyside; of Lauder. Station; at a valuation:of £28,500 for the. .whole, eq.iab to'about £1 per- head on the 'stock. *

E'-L. Luk3,- of "Wai licm;> has let hi 3 well Icnowji for a term of years to Mr. Soger Kett. .Mr. Luks is -leaving in Jnner His urbanity ,aucl prover- =. bial; good nature will be much -missed by' travellers on the road. ... '

-At a sitting of-the Supreme Court, held last week, Mr. t?mith obtained a rule nisi:for a nonsuit •oo'leay^,reserved, or, failing that,' for a i:ew tr,alonr'the dire'ilion l>y the Judge ; cond, tliat.ths verdict wasa.~'ain3t the--weight of evidence.. The rale 'nisi wa3. granted. The Re.v.,P. Grainger been.iappointsd curate of. Waikonaiti. ; - . The,' .Times' i.writes:—" Our old friend Ned JJevine, we are glad.to, h'ear, is taking an interest in 'Church matters. Jle is reported;.tojiave addressed a meeting atjlawkesbury last Aveek. ol ' the subject of the candidature, for the Church of England curacy of Waikoaaiti, "which will shortly become vacant. ■ Th's anniversay day, of the Province, whatever virtues it may have in Dunedin, ■ is but poorly, appreciated in .the-.interior. In >Naseby,.: if.it had- iipt' beeu that ■ the bost office 'ahd : Hahk3 ; weri closed,' no ons would have known thairtbey were expected to make aholiday. s v [7nder,.tlie climatic circumstances -aj-holklay—would--have grekt anj.ount of making., il'-'. i,, .I.^JsJ-i f

Ox Tuesday,"tire l«th instant,, after the 'Co.art. at Hamiltbns, a lectura-Vas - del iverea. by Mr. H. VV. Robinson m the church there. jThe lecture .was in aidjof .cjiuish,-fdnds4-. "> .Scholars.''i^There wa3.",riot - weather ing very\uifavorable," but, those present' appeared'to be well entertained. . The chair was occupied by Mr.^Edmonda. . The General Government are said to be starving out Auckland Provincialists. tracts of country have been'taken from the natives under arrangement in the Provinces, in accordance with the proposals submitted to the Assembly, but these tracts are not being hanVled over to the .Province—the vexed authorities receiving intimation .privately that there is likely to be no further delegation of lands or power until the Provincial question is settled.

A Good Templar Lodge is being formed at St. Batbans—.about twenty-six were enrolled for a start;" The movement has taken good hold in Naseby, the Lodge already numberr ing about seventy members. If persevered with, Good Tcmplarism on the Goldfields cannot fail to be productive of much good. It is the wildest of fiilla lies-to suppose that it will hurt any class, of. tradesmen.Those .vho''join Good Tepiplar Loilges are for the most . part .the excessively temperate or -the excessively intemperate. Neither' sre good marks for the publican.

WK .niKlerstaruV that the reef at Blackatone Tliil. which iras partially prospected several years ago,' is at length likely to be fairly taatM.' v -"-Men will at'once be put on• •by shp Agapciatiou jfcjfafrjy termed t» proa-

pect the reef, with tlic view of really determin ng its value. Very promising prospects "were reported to ligge been obtained when tirsfc discovered, arid - not seem unreasonable tp,_ expect . that really payable workings" may-be opiened. rate, the iprospectors seem now to mean going the ri<»lit way to work. That is—rto thoroughly test the reef before rushing into the enormous expenses which have been the ruin of a good many companies. A meeting of the old nlembers of the Fire 1 Brigade was called,- by the ex-Captain, Mr. ■ George Stephens,, at the Council Chambers on the 22ncl inst. . It wa3 proposed by Mr. M'Donald, seconded, by .Mr. S.,Bdxter,-r- ---" That tbo mombef3 of tße lata Brigades, who are willing to act again, give in their names." The following 'were enrolled:—Gh Stephens, Captain j Morrison, Lieutenant :. Brookes," Treasurer •Tnhgmaak, Sergeant; Hall, Poreman j-jr Costelloe, Collett, Smith, Chairman .-Pipder, Baxiei*, .Botting, McDonald, Cogari; Greer., The acting Committee appointed .wera Messrs. Chapman, Greer, Col lett,. Cogan, and M/Donald. .It was agreed that "all • fines and le vies be disposed of .by the Brigade as t]i:y think proper, also, : that the old rules and regulations be abided by. "the entry money for honorary.members was .fixed at 2s. 6d., and contributions 2s,_per'-'month.' The monthly meetings will be held at the Council Chamber on the first Monday" of each month, at 5.30. p.m.

| About one o'clock on Mo.ndav there wa 8 an alarm; of fire—the bell ringing out loudly I and thick volumes of smoke were quickly seen rising at the-back of Lsven-street, a lit- ! tie below the Town Hall. Smoke was ob-" served by Messrs.- Langmaak and Mesaent—who were standing near Mr. sta-blesj--is3uing from the back of Mr. Aitken's premises. - The alarm was at once given, and the. old members of the brigade, with most praiseworthy alacrity, got the hose adjusted, I the alley, between the main buildings proving most convenient. Efforts had been made before the ho3o was in position to smother the fire, but with lit Je or no success. In a very short time the hose did its work, although the dense volumes of smoke issuing from the rubbish "and hay in the stable and out-house made it difficult for the men to push in. In about twenty minutes after the alarm Was given all sign of tire,was gone ex-' eept the charred remains of ,'pfattition walls arid half burnt timber.- The wind was bigH/ but fortunately not blowing in "npori :, the ; main buildings otherwise : the damxge .would'have been greater. The damage' done to buildings and stock'amounts t6'~aT>ofit'£so:' There-is-a floating policy overstock iri-ths" store arid bakery in the National- Insurance . Company. The' building .'damaged is uriiu-' snreil. ; Owing t°.;the very excellent organisation of t-ha brigade we. are spared ; having tb stand still and watch a whole block of buildings destroyed, as atOamaru on Sunday ' last.. ,The -capse • of;the fire is not known. It probably'arose from,hot ashes blown clown from - or frcui children playing with; matches, k r