THE Mount Ida Chronicle FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1876.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 388, 18 August 1876, Page 2

THE Mount Ida Chronicle FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1876.

Our leader, and other interesting matter, is unavoidably held over till next issue. Ax - the Tapanui land sales, on the 10th inst., the large sum of £22,0C0 was realised. Thirty officers professional and clerical, in the Public Works Department of the Colony, have received notice of the termination of their engagements. The Banks "will be closed on Wednesday next 23rd hist., the day on -which the District Ploughing Match is to take place. The quarterjj meeting of the Licensing Courts -will take place on Tuesday sth prox. The Home mails via San Francisco mav be expected by Tuesday's coach. When the debate on Separation is finished, it is said that the Opposition will table u direct want of. confidence motion. The pro3psctii3 of tha Mount Ida Co-ope-rativie Store and Bakery appears in another column. 12D shares are, we understand, already subscribed for. The District Ploughing Match will tako place on Wednesday next, 23rd inst., in Packman's paddook at the Eweburn. Should tho weather prove favorable, a targe number of visitors are expected. A sis horse coach will leave Horswell's Soyal Hotel at 10 o'clock, conveying passengers to the ground. Ax excellent assortment of trees, roses and flowering plants from Mr. Hall's nursery will be sold by auction by Messrs. Inder and George on Saturday, 19th inst. On the sapae evening the right to erect a booth-for the ploughing match will be sold. The following officers of the Juvenile Temple were installed for the ensuing quarter, by Bro G Raven, as follows E Jacob, WCT ; . "W Smith, YT ; A Nicholas, C ) A Jacob, ES; H Marshall, AS>; J Salmon, FS ; S G Inder, T; E J Nicholas, PCT; C Thomas, RBS ; W Donnelly, LH^; J Nicholr-s, M; C Moellar, DM ; A Inder, WIG-; J J Smith, WOG-. The Hon. W. 11. Reynolds, M.11.R., was presented on Monday last wir.li a silver coffee service and salver, subscribed by the citizens of Dunedin several months ago, " as a mark of their appreciation of his sirviefs as their representative in the General Ass< mbly and Provincial Council for 22 year?." The articles were manufactured by Messrs G. and T. Dunedin, and are valued at £2GO. The Hospital Committee met on Friday last—Mr W Inder in fc'ne Chair. Present : -Messrs Anderson, Jackson, Brown, Gordon and George. The Visiting Committee reported that the Hopital wrs clean and in good order, and that the patients expressed themselves thoroughly satisfied ; that the works entrusted +o the Coii.mii tee Lad been complet ed, and that a letter had been recieved from Mr. , Eat'.ije, complaining of the treatment received by h:'.s wite while in the Hospital. On the Committee enquiring into the circumstances it was found that her conduct was such that, her discharge was necessary. The Surg< on reported that during the month one patient was admitted and one discharged, and that three remained in the Hospital. He also reported that Mrs. Rathje's discharge from the institution was necessary. The Treasurer staled that the cash in hj; nd (including subsidy due) • was £l4B 2s 6d. On Mr. Eathje's letter of complaint bein» read, it was resolved—" That the letter having been submitted to Dr. Whitton, his report thereon perfectly justified Mrs Rathje's discharge from the Hospital, and that the complaint was uncalled for." Resolved "that the Secretary apply to Mr. Rumble for two months maintenance." Messrs. Brown, George, and were appointed tise Vii-iting Committee. Acccunts amounting to £SO 2s 7d. were passed ft r t payment. V_ The report that the Rev R L Stanford was V likely to become Bishop of Waispu ha*, I have »

reason to hplievo, only this foundation —that lit) has addressed on the subject by a of that Diocese. Ho lias, I,urn in. formed, decline I to entertain tho irieu. He would be unfitted on the ground of a vaftt of knowledge of the Maori language, if on no j other. Although our ablest clergyman of 'ho Church of Kugland he id yet " ower young" to be a Bishop. —-Correspondent 'N.O. Times.' A veiiv enjoyable entertainment, the firat of tho kind in Naseby, was given by the Juvenilo Templars in the Nlasouic Hall, on Tuesday evening last. Tho programme, which consisted of recitations and songs, was gone through iu a highly creditable manner by tha youngsters, who astonished their ciders by their proficiency ia the several ;partß, and the confidence they exhibited before an auilienco. Our space will not permit » tis to fully notice the performance. Mr Haven, who occupied tho chair, deserves considerable credit for tho interest ho took in training the juveniles. " Hospital Sundays " huve become an institution in London and otier largo towns in Britain, and have been productive of much good. We hope "Temperance Sundays" will become an institution in Naseby, and other small towns in New Zealand. Our local ministers have been requested to preach sermons, setting forth the advantages of temperance (which, by the way, are pretty well known to us already) on the eveuing of Sunday next, the 20th instant. We have no doubt that these "Temperance Services" will bo well attended, and be produetivo of similar good to the " Hospital Sundays " at Homo. Mhould they ever become annually Ami generally observed throughout New Zealand, Naseby will claim the credit of their initiation. '

In (lie Supremo Court on 10th inst, his II onor Justice \V illiums delivered judgment, in the cr.se Glssjford v. R«id arid Others. The pluintiil in this ease wus in possession of Intul under a Crown grant. Tho land in question is within a goldfields district, proclaimed before the plaintiff had purchased. The defendants were 'working miners, and having a license to construct a tailrace, and ibe tailings were carried into a stream running through the plaintifl's lurid, to the injury ot llie plaintiff. Ilis Honor, in his judgment., trnid that tlie question turned upon tho Goldficlds Act and the Regulations made in pursuance of it. 'I here was no occasion to discuss tho extent of the prerogative of the Crown; a miner's right ■conferred on the holder no further rights than the Acts and Kegulutions specified Iho quest inn was, were 1 l,e .delendunts authorised by s'atute to interfere with tho rights of llio plaintiff? Authorities he ■quoted vpon these points, Ins Honor said, seemed to decide thut, tl'o riparian rights of landowners outside tho boundaries of a gold field arc n\ 110 way affected by Goldfields Acts ; thut within a goldfield they are oflce'cd only so fur as the Goldfielda Acts or tho Regulations empower the holders of miners' rights to use the water of streams, and that there is nothing in the Acts or the Regulations conferring a power on miners to pollute streams. The rulo mode absolute to enter up judgment for the plaint ill on Ihe 4th and 51 h pleas. As the rule wus decided on the first bruuch, and as there was no need to dispose of the second, there would be no costs for tho reasons before given.