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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 387, 11 August 1876, Page 3

.Mbssbi. Indeu, and Georoe announce two sales by auction on Saturday, the 19th. Thirty-three ploughs competed at Tapanui ploughing nfatch last week. £l5O were divided in prizes. The celebrated billiard player, Robert's, will shortly appear in Dunedin, and other towns in New Zealand. The Naseby Brass Bund, intend giving an entertainment, in aid of their funds, on an early date. . It will bo observed from nn advertisement that tho District Ploughing (Mutch is to take plitce in Packman's Ewoburn paddock on Wednondny, 2Urd inafc. Tkkders are called for the conveyance of police escort and treasure from ftaseby to the railway Station at Tokomairiro, passing through BlacUstonc Hill, Blacks, Clyde, "Roxburgh, and Lawrence. The monthly meeting of the Naseby Fire Brigade was held in the Council Chambers on the evening of Thursday, 3rd inst. The business was of a formal nature, and unimportant. The Treasurer received the sums of 1 Is. from members as monthly contributions, and £1 10s. as subscriptions from honorary members. It will be observed that a meeting to form a co-operative store was held on Wednesday evening last. The result will lid seen from a report of the proceedings ih another column. An adjourned meeting is called for Wednesday next. '.y a An Amovicim paper asserts the cause of diptherin is in some way connected with the odors avising from kerosene oil. This disease, it in said, did imfc make its appearance till aftor petroleum was discovered. A well-known physician id ways orders the discontinuance of this oil in places where the disease exists. The Mount Tda correspondent of the ' North Otago Times' gives currency to the' report that the election of Councillor for bouth Ward only took place "to give the Masonic Hall (the polling booth) a £1 note" ; and points, in support of the rumor, to the fact that the two candidates were respectively Manager and leading shareholder of the Masonic Hall Company. We draw the attention of our readers to the programme of a concert by the Juvenile Templars, which appears in another column. It will lie seen the youngsters are trusting entirely to themselves to afford the evening's • entertainment. As the object in view- to procure funds to start a library—-is a very laudable one, we have no doubt there will be a large attendance ; especially, too, as such a vigorous canvass is being carried on, i every little boy one meets in the street dunning jou to " buy a ticket." Sir G-kokge Ghky's speech oh the Separ' • ation resolutions bus produced a; most favor" " able imprtisaion on all parties.' 1 Tho reply the Premier (says a' correspondent to th e 'Guardian') was remarkably futile.' "It i 8 oven doubtful whether BOine will not vote apainst the Government,' who ai'e looked jipon as their supportev? at'present.- A'represent a-1 tijn to Messrs. Pyke arid Manders.fiym their j consti,aents 'inight riot even now be wholly iaeffeekuu.l: WKfireglnd to notice that'tbe Maerewhepua Miners Association are bestirring .themselves, and that Mr. T. Smith, .one of their; oldest miners, is now in jv'aseby, .with a ,me- 1 luorial to be forwarded to the .General Government, pelting forth the difficulties and tho j btirrasoing litigation, theMnorewlionua miners have boen subjected to in pursuing their avo cut ion, and pruying tho, (govern munt fo.legalise pollution of rivers through . IjATE English and European items are no*;; numerous,'but are full of importance. Mon- 1 t»-n' gro bus declared war against Turkey, and fighting hns been resumed } so that it i.*' evi(lent tho " tick mnn" is still far from convaloicent. Earl Derby, in reply to a deputaiibh, has succinctly set forth 'the position of mat-; ters on tho Continent, and liis remarks-aro : reassuring. Of (lib New* Zealand; •" i11,250,(J0U five per cent, lnim, placed on the Loudon marki)t, only £200,n00 was subscribed lor nt 102 to IO2J-, so that tenders havo no.v l been eiillnd ht par. I'lie wool sales continue dull, and thcro is ,no sign of ft recovery in prices ; rates are 3U per <:>nt. bel6w those of June, 1875. In Zealand wheat therei has been a deolino. Altogether, tho news as regards New Zealand affairs *s ndt at, all satisfactory. A OOP.nE3PON t)ENT writing from Wellington to a Dunedin paper, under a recent date, ,a ay a : "Great indignation is expressed ■in the cu.y at Mr. Itcea' speech', and,' were tho member for City West not an athlete, someone friighfr tet&np'.ft'fo'take the suggestion of the ' Argii3,' and try a little phyai- . C»1 force. —Mr.' Luak'.s speech, also, -has given miich offence, because he stated that tho place and the. people, were melancholy tocamplea of raising an artificial, prosperity at tio expense of the rest of £bo Colony."