HAMILTON.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 386, 4 August 1876, Page 3

HAMILTON.

(3?i'om a correspondent;.)

To be, or not to be, appears to be the great topic of (he day. Everywhere do I near tiie discussion, with various opinions, respecting a. teacher on this side of the district. There is doubt on one side, and a probability on the other, but here 'the matter rests, while those whom it concerns patiently wait with an eager ear Colthe result from the Education Board. There is a rumor that there is not the slightest chance. This would be a great pity, for Hamilton and Sowburn never showed a greater want of a school than at the present time. There are no less than fifty-six or sixty children between both places. I don't mean to say all are able to take the place of the bigger ones. .It is a pity to see the young ones untaught. The Committee met on the Bth, when Mr. O'Grady, from Cornish Village (no doubt to represent the residen's), wsit'.-d on the Committee, with the list of subscribers to the half-way school, and was elected in the place of an'ox-member. Whether we are to have a teacher and a school at Cornish Village is yet to he settled. I am not sure whether the majority are in favor of it. Sowbnrnites, who are in the majority, would like to shift the master's residence to their salubrious spot. This is very natural, yet there are detriments. There has been a standstill in mining operations for the last five or six weeks, through the long successive frosts. The Perseverance Company were repairing their dam in the beginning of the winter, but had to cease work. Parties depending for water have been idle for seven or eight weeks through the breakage of this dam. The Company intend to make a thorough job, which I presume is the cheapest in the long run. This Company struck gold some few weeks ago —an ounce to the dish. I have been informed that it is quiet again. Skating and sliding has been the chief amusement. Parties are to be seen on Mr. Jory's dams on the beautiful moonlight nights. The Rev. J. Hobbs, Episcopalian minister of .Nascby, paid a visit to this township on the 25th, and purposes preaching on the evening of the 9th. We hail the arrival of Mr. Hobbs as one of great benefit to the district. He intends to visit Hamilton fortnightly if arrangements can be made.