THE Mount Ida Chronicle FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1876.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 378, 9 June 1876, Page 2

THE Mount Ida Chronicle FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1876.

The Laud LMiiee has u reuiat'kubie-itAi-deucv to develop the well-known characteristic of red-topeism—the how not to do it.' Th'ts'teudeney was conspicuous on the occasion of the land sale air .Vaseby on Mondr-y- last. The properties ollt'i'ed wblt; town sections at jS'aseby:, ! "Sh Bathivns,, Maiiuherikia-, lind Blackstone HiJl, and a taw sections' reserved as- oC'iip-ecia'i-VflUie in tho lii«'hev block*■! ou the_. jiytdiurn 11 aisdjvd. Whiit the town section** iu i\tu ; eby wen; nobody seeuunl tifciier to know or to c:u'o The twenty or thirty st'diona ' jn occupation, which the residums

wished to ffarehage, w.re not ' offeredj and ior the unoccupied the threat to sell all the land in the interior in blocks was sufficient to paralyse apecuvc purchases ot town property. A ££jkSAJua.c..jgfc. ,J3a±banß Jfound. purchasers, and one buyer purchased three sections at the Mariuherikia Seyoni thi£.no_offer_n'a3 to the fore. "As "to it was not to be supposed that anyone >yo.qid r at the. upset price except .tjie/ranisoMer.'tOJdeUiiqßely 'refused to purchase except in- self defence, and would rejoice, as';.one. agent 5 did,;in the spiritless auction. . , ... The auctioneer, aware of the fever scramble for land of inferior tjuali f y elsewhere, was thunderstruck at. the unsaleable nature 6f his "lota; J " If he knew more he need not have been. /The sections oflisred should never have beensubmitteduntil some settlement had' taken place oil deferred payments. As' soon as intending settlers in the district understand the grand grazing facilities the Ivyeburn ,JJ undred .offers them, and that the rumors iudustrispread, by intet'ested''persons tliiit right still, without purchasing an acre, are false, there will be no lack of applicants for' the Kyebitfn r Hundred. ..j9.ujb i .Q^r._,.G- ! allioai,;iix .Dunedra r care for none .of these things. ..• •Sp :.4ong as " Just'what we said " canbe constantly on their/infallible' tongues'," the whole interior 1 may remain a .sheep run for ever. Fortunately, Grallio'a day done.

liAsf ''.week we reported Jervis been brouglit into the Hospital from Cambrian, and that Wilkes vras- under treatment locally at St'.-'BathaTis. M'Master died in the fever, ward 'on, Saturday of acute' pericolitis., '.wj&pn we wrote last \xeek, unknown to us, was in the same ward, having been brought' in from St'.' Bathans. : '

' this week ,to say' a. few . ;plain woTOg-in- regard to, the, treatment of these i - en. On Friday night last : Wilkes aAcl were left to themselves in. the completely isolated "Ward,'to the night, as best they could. If, as we are informed, M'Master was strapped down as a precaution against accidents, and that Wilke'swas cryingfot assistance thi ough l.heniglifcjhe himself being in an advanced state of prostration, the barbarity of the. proceeding cannot be too severely -;cQnclemned'. • :! Solitary confinement > with: a dying man, who, ii not a maniac, had!.at .-least .to'/bei as precaution/ is a great deal-worse. The won Her to us, if these things be. true, is, /not'. tliat one died ' but chat one lived. If it were considered -that- the—wardsman was too as undoubtedly he was, to watch th'esb men at night, or at least to sleep iii the next, room, ■ : have.ati 1 once engaged a 'ttie purpose. .

h • CW&;have T riot 'done- here:- - rOii-'Satur-day, without notice to anj» ; minister of three p,f.~wftpm were in Naaer to idie;'lt is fair to say thatihe. medical" attend. ance*was regular, and that, in our opir nioit, beyond unremitting i attention iu nursing—the most powerful restorative procurable—everything that'skill could do wg.3;-done by the Hospital f?-urgeon v tos., -.■rec.gver, a-; case hopeless from the, first: -.The deceased rnaii lay Sunday, and on STonday morning about ten o'clock tire undertaker—uncertain waat denomination M'lvlaster belonged to —an assistant and the driver of the vehicle, took ; the ; body away- and buried it in the paupers* corner of the cemetery. .Whether the assistant, whose state or sobriety was so questionable as to make it inadvisable to allow, :of his.aasi stance.'ia lowering- - the body,, and the driver were the two respectable Ito u seh'olders who are 'to sign the "certificate'.in.accordance' with the A ct, in the place of a minister of reliwe ihave yet.to seei as, up to yesterday; no certificate or other document could be. fo.und iii'the hands of the,, Registrar other than the medical certificate; although the body:has been buried three -dayß: Understand that on. Sunday brother* P.:s>Y >^ ; demise. Hie duty oi decent interment was? not the brotheHn-law'sbut was that of the Hospital CcmrffMteei- : By whose! order was the deceased carted away as carrion ? What record is th ere of name ? ; What',was,'dohe in'his ; 'h'^ v was .not sadden, to provide that if.it were necessary for him to make arrangements legal or other he shpuld have at least the, opp'orttiMty^ t . .jfcade * to see that 'the consolation or: advice that best pf \men eagerly : se'efc 1 f6f in'thiiTraa^Hhst 1 weakness ; was proffared ? ''These few questions and others must, be answered. The' Visiting C.pmmitte.e,:if too scared to.do their duty by fear of the report, " fever in the Hospital," should have . taken care,to make sure what was necessary and.possible for the comfort of the' stricken men w.isbeing provided. As it is they have miserably failed in j their; duty, and brought discredit on the fair? fame of pur' Hospital, which CEui vbnly 1 bo removed by the fullest .enquiry.! Ajf.t ivjD Master's. life be as worthless as ■ it may have been—Who shall cast thei| first stone ? It is to be hoped: that 1 such an occurrence will never itakei place again. If we. can help it it never i shall. When it is remembered 11 how; wfc'stanSly/o'iir clergy are' travelling,; an d hujj; it is fpi* .dangjerpus case* t<> bu b.<•(.')u|rnt in to the is n>! excuse fur all want of notification in this ease, or system to supply it. !ii no easy should a pauper patient or other bej buried without rtiigious cer^-

tnonial, unless the minister of the church to which the deceased belonged refused to do his duty, in such a case —which could not occur in N^seby—the Hospital Committee should see to it that the funeral should be-witnessed by their officers or by some of.their own number. ; ~-.il ; , > /