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The Suez mail closes at the district office* on Monday next, at the usual hour. Teachers are wanted for the three schools in the St. Bathans district. The salaries offered are Cambrian £145, St. Bathans £l3O to £340, Blackstone Hill £6O and fees (attendance about twenty). In all these cases a comfortable residence is found for the teacher. Tenders, to be in by the 28th inst., are 1 called for the erection of a suspension footbridge over the Manuherikia, between Blackstone Hill and St. Bathans. The youngest child of Mr. Edmonds, postmaster, Hamilton, died suddenly on. Monday morning last in convulsions. A medical man had been sent for, but the child died shortly after the messenger left. _ A petition to the Superintendent is beingcirculated in the .'southern portion of the Province. The petitioners state that "in the present circumstances of the country a meeting of the Provincial Council (which, might take the shape of convention) is absolutely necessary," and request accordingly. The incoming Suez mail is telegraphed from Adelaide. The steamer and passengers have been detained in quarantine, owing to a case of small pox on board. The mails were to be fumigated and forwarded. The Muddy Creek Channel Company, at St. Bathans, are getting on well with their work. The Channel appears to run very evenly, and the work in every respect is creditable. The bridge over it is a great convenience to the traffic, and is nicely constructed. A correspondent kindly informed us last week that Mr. Benjamin Tremewanhad sold his share (l-7th) in the Cornish Company's claim at Shepherd's Hut, Hamilton, for £250 to Mr. John Rouse and Mr. Henry Roach. Mewton and party's claim on Surface Hill, Hamilton, is looking well. Our correspondent was shown the tunnels driven, and a prospect, which he judged to be a pennyweight to the dish. All original telegrams are now to be kept for a period of five years respectively at Wellington by the General Manager of the Telegraph Department, after which period they are either to be burned or reduced to pulp by a paper-making machine, either in the presence of the General Manager or some person appointed by him. Mr. Charles Purnell, the advocate of an Agrarian Land Law for New Zealand, kindly forwarded us his last pamphlet. " Our Land Laws: What should be their basis ?" Mr. Purnell thinks— " With the tenure of the cultivable land regulated by a strict agrarian law, and the pastoral country divided into moderately sized blocks and let on leases of short duration, it would hardly be possible for the public estateto be converted into an instrument for the aggrandisement of wealth at the cost of° the poorer classes of the community." He also thinks an aguarian law would be a conservative measure. We wish we could believe that the Conservatives would accept it as such. Without pretending to give our readers an idea of Mr. Pumell's paper we may state that his honest enquiry is in a thoroughly useful direction, and cannot fail to be of public benefit. Mr. Bright made his second Dunedin sensation on Sunday evening. Last week we ventured to say his creed was Deism and good works. We did him an unconscious injustice. He now glories in being an atheist. He says, "By the term God. I mean the mind which animates the orderly—and, as it seems to me, the fatherly— government of the'universe, 'Natures' soul,' as the poets have it. I know no more of God. Do you ?" Mr. Bright's millenium is when " Charity will come to be looked upon as an impertinence." Knowing as we now do the notions he| has chosen to glean together to build an infidel's creed upon, we can understand how, with 2500 to listen to him, he should com e to consider the present state of humanity to be "seething, corrupt, monstrous," which with the aid of Bright, (in the garb of a Modem. Luther), time, and we suppose the Committee, is to betiansformed "intoagrand republic of beings, a little lower than the the angels." If a man was guilty of using obscene language in a public place Mr. Pyke would lock him up without compunctSon. In so doing he would sadly blot his announced escutcheon of free thought freedom of action and liberty. A man has as much right to use his liberty of thought in offending the moral taste of the public ear by obscenity as by blasphemy. The offence, if it be an offence, is the same. If the spokesman and the printer of the obscene is to be jointly punished we have serious scruples whether Mr. Bright, his Chairman and his publisher, should go free. Be that as it may, an outrage' upon good taste *and the feelings of a great portion of the community has been wantonly perpetrated by all who, to gratify their love of notoriety, took part in making use of so poor a specimen of self-creation as Bright the freethinker, "or altruistic philosopher, according to the ' Daily Times.' The usual quiet of the township oi Livingstone (Maerewhenua) was somewhat disturbed on the occasion of the last visit of the Warden, March Ist. During the adjournment of" the Warden's Court some altercation appears to have arisen outside between two parties, who had applications before the Ware? en, and from words the matter went to blows: The upshot was that information was laid before Mr. Robinson, in his capacity, as Justice of the Peace, by John Davidson against Henry Howe, for assault and battery. In the afternoon the parties came before Mr. Kobinson, who adjourned the hearing to the Court at Oamaru for March 6th. It may not be generally known that Maerewhenua, although within the Goldtield, is outside the Magisterial district of the Otago Goldtields, and is therefore visited by Mr. Warden Robinson in the capacity of Warden only. He baa no juriediotiotr there 16 act as Besideht Magistrate.

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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 366, 10 March 1876, Page 2

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Untitled Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 366, 10 March 1876, Page 2

Untitled Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 366, 10 March 1876, Page 2

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