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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 351, 26 November 1875, Page 2

:: The Jockey Club, Hotel, Blackstone Hill is offered, for sale iu : our advertising columns ; A MOTica of interest, to speculators in. the Mount Ida Deep Lead Company is; elsewhere......: ..-: , , ...., ''.:■],'. ","' '■ .'•" j Mbde Latjtotik will-address-tlie:'cleetors at'the Town- Hall, Tfaecby, on Wednesday, Ist December, at 8.30 p.m. "■; ' ,[;■■ < .Tbndeks are called, by advertisement, : for the >.erectioni of a : bridge.over .German "Creek, Upper Kyebrtrvi'Diggings, ' .". ■ ■'' ■■:'' ;'■"'■:' : -Ar T-EXiiORiAAr, received .by .the? company's broker (Mr. Dairymple) 'elates that \_ the Sons of Fortune,. Company at;ihe Arrow have struck gold. An auction Bale of horses and sundry articles is announced by Messrs. lnder and George at JVaseby on Thursday next; the 2nd of December. ..::■.-.;.■.;•>:' -, Dr. -Whitton gives his lecture on " Experimental Ohomisiry,"~wiLli*illustrations, at the Town 1! a 1 !; Wasi-by,' on' Friday,26th lost., in aid of tlioAtheiiseuui. ;' . "The District. Court will be held on Holiday, the29thinstmt, at Judgment will.be given by his Honor Judge Harvey on theisubmitted case between miners at, Clark's and at Kyeburn..Some other cases, of interest are also to be dealt with by the Court. ; Thb bridge over the Main Grully, Haseby, is now on its way to'bo utilised. The minora working-in Roach's Grully have undertaken to fill up the gap made' by the flood, and to construct a bye-wash discharging into the/Dead Level Race above the bridge, instead of. below it aa herotofo: o. . . Messrs. Reith akd Wilkie are in receipt of a, number of new works issued by >the best Home publishing houses. The same firm are themselves-publisliers on a large scale of works of general interest, which we have, frequently alluded to, full particulars of which will be seen in bur advertising ''columns. ' ■ '■'•■'■'' The papors are generally agreed that, although the time for the issue of new writs is not 3et definitely fixed, it will be about the 10th prox. Considerable delay has boen caused by the difficulty experienced in making tho various registratian and returning officers understaud thoroughly what was. required of them in veforenco to the recent re-division of districts. It has involved lengthy explanatory correspondence, which in some instances

even jet is going on: lb is not considered, likely that arrangements will be completed before the second week iu December. "*'£ln the interests of the district we are glad to draw attention to the facilities now posses-' sed by Messrs. A. and T. Burt, of Dunedin, for the supply of iron piping for sluicing claimß. These gentlemen have made the supply of mining plant a speciality, and will shortly be in a position to supply the celebrated " little g>ant" nozzle, so generally used giye_ every information needed by managers of mining claims, or others, as to the amount ot pressure obtainable at different levels, strength and - size of pipes, &o; - Ax the special meeting of. the Haseby Council held on Monday last Councillors varied their graver coiisultations with conversational intervals of a lighter kind. To preserve the dignity of the Council it was agreed' that when a Councillor wished to address the .Chair he should rise, but otherwise, if simply indulging in light conversation, he should sit. In this way the dignity of the Council, it was hoped, would be preserved. <. Except for the noise, the effect -was exactly similar to that seen at a Quaker's prayer meeting. It was mentioned, among other matters, that the lamplighter was one of the small creditors, who was waiting for his money, in order that he might repair to the seaside for the benefit of his health—being exceedingly deaf. He, it wa3 thought, would object to Cr. Newmarch'e offer of reasonable interest..