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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 352, 3 December 1875, Page 2

The approaches ■to the bridge 'overf the Main Gully being now completed, the bridge is'open for ..' A ; latmje. amount of labor is now available in the"district:" A 'number of .meh;=are4rai yelling, in search of employment; n 'nobre! so than'we'remember to have been 1 case for th'elasttwo years. *.' ! .■ : '''"' . ' ! '/;' : '; : ' J '.'." : ' ;t ; .-The miserable burst of i cold, weather happily broke up at the commencement of the week, r The warm.days which, have since been the,rule will soon force up the crops i in .the.nelds'ahd gai-dens, which are. very backward this season,,'.' ,■ V ;-■■'•■ -' ■ Thk City of Dunedin mean investing. A resolution has been" carried at a late meeting agreeing that £21,000 should be offered by the Corporation for the. University building. The intention is to utilise the building as a TownHaU. ; , ... ;..;.; ~,. , The electoral rolls are nearly complete. It is expected in Wellington that Parliament will be dissolved'and the writs immediately issued, to be all made returnable within sixty days,, the.respective.dates,to be fixed by. the Returning Officers —-. under instructions of .-'..,'. An influential deputation waited upon Sir John Richardson on Monday last, and requested hiin .to stand for Dunedin. He postponed his answer, to be remitted in writing, out gave the deputation to understand that he felt obliged to retire from public life. The lion and the lamb. at last are. lying down together. The Dunedin ' Evening Star' in a late issue writes :—"Mr. Reid is in favor, of having a central government sufficiently strong to exercise a firm control over the expenditure and the revenue of every part of the Colony. This is exactly what we are in favor of ourselves." Oamaku is likely to be well off for papers. The ' North Otago Times' will have to look to its laurels. The 'Star' reports that:— " A new evening and weekly newspaper is projected. It is to be called the 'Evening and Weekly Mail,' and will be brought out by a limited liability company, with a capital of. £1,500, in £3 shares." Before the company gets a footing we also hear that it is .likely, another .tri-weekly morning paper -will be,publishedJjy a private firinV .-; One practical upshot arising from Mr. Vin-J cent Pyke's discovery of the Gold Bonus' Ordinance being, now law is that-Dr.. Pollen, as Premier, has consented to the expenditure of the £oooft..voted by the Council fo'r payment of the Is. rebate. The Ordinance does not matter a straw if the money is sanctioned for

■distribution. :.v,We hope that no time will be lost in devising a mode by which miners sending down .their Christmas parcels mayreap their share of the £SOOO. The vote is sufficient to reduce the duty for Lhe year on all gold obtained in Otago to Is. per ounce. Dk. Whitton gave his experimental lecture on chemistry on Tuesday evening last at the Town. Hall, Naseby. There was a very fair attendance, and the experiments were startlingly attractive. The doctor had taken great pains to extemporise apparatus for the .development of.the different gases, the several properties of which he explained. Explosive compounds were also practically illustrated, and the union of chemical bodies, simple and compound, placed! in juxta-position under various conditions cleverly illustrated. The audience were both interested and amused, and a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the lecturer., An extended notice will be found in another column. '

r No further progress. ia being made "with ; the Mount Ida head race.,,, The season jvEen the wort of completing the. race could be done with -most efficiency and cheapness is now passed. For the last two months every Bmall tributary was bringing in sufficient water to Btaunch the race along its course in a short time; If the work is commenced in the autumn water for such a purpose will have to be coaxed along fran distant points. The truth is, the further developmentof the race is nobody's .business, and, we greatly fear, is likely to remain attached to the same most important Government functionary. : The ' Guardian T is beginning to be allowed to unfold the Government policy. In a late article it says:—"We take" it. for granted that the members of the Waste f Lands Board, who are the virtual administrators of thepublic estate, will not be in the slightest degree influenced in their judgments by the iinar .solution of the Constitutional question. Whetherthey are or are not now disposed grant the " indiscrimate renewal of the' pastoral leases," assuredly the existence or non-existence of Provincial Councils will not be likely to have any effect on their decisions:" This is the first time it has been avowed as the. positive intention to give the sole controlofiand legislation to the Waste Lands Boards as at present existing.. Perhaps our contemporary just a little exceeded his instructions. . , .

A raw weeka ago the Cornish and Scotch Company at Claries Diggings were in a fair way to dissolve, owing to a disagreement among the shareholders. At the instigation of one side an injunction was put upon the claim, which, however, on reconsideration was removed. Immediately' after an arrangement was come to for one partner to retire, the others buying him out for over £ 1400, the money to be paid on : Monday last. On Saturday week the party-went to work, and came down on Saturday last,; hav< ing washed up about one-third of their tail race, and bringing down between 35 and 36 pounds weight of gold. The money was duly forthcoming on" the Monday, and the prospects of the claim for the season look excellent. It is refreshing, these dull times, to write of gold, being brought in by the pound weight;