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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 320, 17 April 1875, Page 2

The English mail via Suez will be/delivered at the district post offices ou Saturday, tlxe 17tli Instant.

The Pope has exhorted the Prussian Bishops to continue their resistance, and vote against Bismarck. Our "Resident Magistrate and Warden's Courts, being this week of very little interest, are held over.

Mr. B-iCHAiua H, .Browne has been ap pointed District Engineer. Mr. Browne -Bill -Still continue to supervise the head race and .sludge channel.

Mb. Kirbv, of Naseby, has sent us samples .of cordials he is now supplying at moderate raites. Our temperance friends assure us the samples are of a very good description. Wk_ understand that Mr. Mervyn, M. 11. K.. will visit the district prior to the ensuing meeting of the Assembly to ascertain partf .oulars a. to the progress of the public works. Late cablegrams, to April 3 report that the wheat market is quiet. A million and a half bushels are cn route. Wool is unchanged, and little business ;s doing. The revenue for

the year amounts to seventy-four and a-half millions.

Three sections of land at T)i; nback, comprising about 395' acres, are to be offered at the District Land Office, iSTaseby, on Tuesday the 20th instant at the upset price of £1 per acre. '

The ' New Zealand Herald' is this month of more than its average quality. The,local view of Caversham is of interest, though hardly so good as the views of Australian scenery.

Johanna _ Farmer, a little girl, was brought up in Dunedin as a neglected child. It was stated that her mother was in gaol. The child was sent to the industrial school for a term of twelve months.

•Tenders are called for fluming over the Eweburn and Wetlierburn on the line of head race. Tenders are to be in Dunedin by the 2Sth instant. Plans can be seen at the Public Works Office, JNaseby. The Sydney Cup was run on March 16th. Six horses started, with the following result Imperial, 1; Keprieve, 2; Lurline, 3. The race was won by a length pretty easily. Lurlh.e won the All-aged Stakes, beating a moderate'iield.

Mr. J. Morrisojt wid open a reading and coffee room at the corner of Leven and Earnstieet on Saturday evening, Mr. Morrison intends these rooms to meet a requirement always existing in Naseby, but much more of late since the temperance movement has taken such root. '■ . .- • :

Me. E. Hall has again started the weekly aance formerly, so-successful under his management at the Masonic Hall, Naseby. Wednesday evenings are fixed upon, and the Town Hall is engaged for the purpose! Those wishing to join for the season should communicate with Air. Hall.

The General Government have ordered an enquiry to be made at Maerewhehua concerning the death of Jarnes Murray. Mr: Parker, Resident Magistrate at Oamaru, was to attend to conduct the investigation on Monday' last. We have not heard the result of'the inquiry.

Ihe big dam in connection with, the headrace lias been gone on with in capital style. The work, it is thought, will he completed in about six weeks; Mr. Currie has lost no time, in getting his contract put through. The work, as is generally known, is in Goal Pit Gully, within an easy walk of the township. fipEAiiiN g the Provincial Solicitor said:—" He would be in favor of school committees having power to levy a rate of 3d. in the pound for incidental expenses. Education could not be carried on sufficiently without selling the landed estate of the Province, and rather than that should be done the people who desired education should tax themselves."

The monthly meeting .of ,the Naseby Eire Brigade, was held on the ' ofch instant in the Council Chambers. The* following were elected working members of the Brigade:— Messrs. David Brown, William Gunn, John Allan, and Henry Jacob. ' The following were accepted as honorary members of the Brigade :-r-Messrs,. P. Law, R Glenn, Jv Thomson E. Bremner, L. W. Busch, J. Dillon, A. Qraig, W. Inder, ; and N." P. Hjorring;

- A T , l> " lU ' lO meeting, is convened at Nascby Friday evening at 8 p.m. Toy tlie Sinyor, at tlie request of the Progress Committee, to cons i ( l tile best locality for the block of land offered on Messrs. Sanders Brothers lower run. The Committee decided to recommend to the. selectors appointed a block below the road between Aimes and Douglas Hotels, but wish to give the public an. opportunity to express an opinion, as some think the land would be more useful if opened nearer the township. •

A rather unpleasant -finish to a marriage ceremony took place (says the sßallarat Star') the other day in the city. The bride had been ailing for a few hours previous to the time_ appointed for the. most interesting part of the ceremony—-the tj'ing of the connubial knot. Directly this was accomplished' the fair one complained of sickness, and she was at once- put to bed and medical advice obtained.- The doctor announced to the assembled guests at the marriage'feast that the bride was suffering from a bad' attack of measles.

At a sitting of the. Supreme Court, in banco, yesterday, Mr. Henry Smythies, formerly a ..barrister and. solicitor of -the Supreme Court of New Zealand', practising in Dunedin, and who has justreturned from England, presented and supported" a petitibn to be, re-admitted, as.; a barrister land solicitor of the Supreme Court. His Honor the Chief Justice appointed; the 21st May next, : at the Supreme Court-honse, Wellington,. :before the: Judges then : at the Court of -Appeal, as'the day on which ;the petition is to be considered m terms of the Act.

An incident 'came. under our observation a few days ago,:'which is worthy of being recorded as showing ' the opinion- of * the Superintendent of the Lunatic 7 -Asylum as to the chief cause of there being: so many ; inmates of that institution. A visitor went up there," much the worse for liquor, and, while waiting in the lobby until Mr. .Hume was readv to see him, the mail took a seat, and, -applying his handkerchief to 1 1 lis" eyes, commenced crying most bitterly-. ; 'Oil' the arrival of Mr. Hume the following-collbc|uy took place:— " Well, my friend, whatjcan I do for you ? " Visitor (rubbing his-eye'S with his handkercliicf) :_ Can I see Tim 'Dpolin ?" • Mr. Hume - (speaking sevez-ely):. ''You've been drinking."' Visitor .(standing up) : "&ot a drop to-day." Mr. Hume: " Look in my face and tell me that again, '.yisitor (looking full. at, Mr. ILuiiie, aiicl sko.wing off' to great, advantage two yellow and blood-shot eyes): ; f',Sure-an'. I would'iit.tell ye,an Mr. Hume: "You're ih'a nice come to a lunatic asylum now, a'int you.. Don't you know that drink brings two-thirds of the people here? And mark my words, you are now on the same road, and unless you look sharp I shall have you tolook after as well as your friend." Visitor: ".Then can't I see Tim." Mr. Hnine: " No, not nbw, go' home and get, a sleep." Visitor: "Then .will your Honor tell me how ho is?" Mr. Hume: '' He's getting on Very well; indeed, at the present moment he is much more sensible than. you.are. yourseh, and would, '.I "verily- believe, be ashamed of you were he to see you." The visitor still'entreated to "be allowed to see his friend, audit was only with some little trouble that Mi-. Hume succeeded in disuiissiuo- him. —'Guardian.'- ' ' ■ °