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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 395, 7 October 1876, Page 2

It is rumored that the Provincial Council of Otago will meet on an early date. _ The proprietor of the Good Templar Hotel, Auckland, has been fined £l5O for blj grog selling. List of unclaimed letters at the Naseby Post Office :—Mr. Francis Godwin, Mi* Chaa. F. Hall, Mrs. M. Smith. At a meeting of shearers, held in Dunedin last week, it was unanimously resolved that laat year's rate, 20s. per 100, be adhered to. The «Palmerston and Waifcouaiti Times' is for sale by tender, together with freehold, plant, book debts, and goodwill. ABCHBI3HOF Haepkb, of Timaru, ha§ been elected (if he will accept) to the vacant bishopric of Waiapu. The indefatigable and popular member for Dunedin, Mr. Stout, returned to hi» Parliamentary duties in Wellington on Monday last.A kttmber of dcw entire horses are being brought into the district, both draught and thoroughbred. A correspondent Buggests a show. The following ar? the name* of the Otatro Counties : Fiord, Wallace, Southland, Bruce, Lakeland, Molyneui, Maniototo, Taieri, Waitati, Waikouaiti, and Peninsula. Excellent results have lately been obtained by the Bruce Quartz Company—26B' ounces of gold, value £975, have been obtained from seven weeks' crushing. A* enthusiastic meeting, held at Balclntha on Saturday last,, approved of the action ofthe Otago representatives, in the stand they made in Wellington in opposing the Government proposals. In essay is to be delivered in the Ark of Safety Lodge, 1.0. G.T., on Monday evening next, by Bro. the Rev. J. M'Cosh Smith. The degree meeting, which should have taken place on that night, has been postponed. Some splendid samplps of heavv gold have been obtained lately at the Kveburn Diggings. Last week the agent for the Bank of New Zealand (Mr. Smith) purchased a lot, in which was a number of large-sized nuggets the heaviest weighing over eighteen = penny. weights. We have been a shown a view (bv Messrs. Clifford and Morris) of the tombstone recently erected in the Dunedin cemetery by the telegraphists of Otago, in memory of their late brother officer, Frederick John Bunny, who died at St. Bathans, where he was stationed, in April last. On the front panel of the pedestal is a marble slab, with a suitable inscription. The top portion of the memorial is cruciform, in the centre of which is a well-executed monogram. : A EEMakeablb paper, witch evoked considerable.discussion, was read at a philosophical meeting in Wellington lately by Dr. Sewnlan, on the influence of the climate oflfetr Zealand in human development. The Jes-.raed doctor contended—" That the lower atmospheric pressure, and absence of pho.«phate» here, must render children born or brought up in this Colony inferior, mentally n.nd ph\«ically, to those brought up at Hon.e " We understand that Mr. Mos>ey, the representative of the Otago Licensing Victualler* Association, has been in the Arrow district, and- has formed a branch, called the Wakatipu. Mr. Eiclvtrt, Q.ueenstown, is Secretary: Mr. Moslev, I* expected to arrive in Na*eby' to form a branch in this district. ' .The prospecting claim latelv granted to Kdjnonds and party at the Serpentine is now being formed into a Company by Mr. W. Baven, the well known prospector of the Macetown reef?, who recently purchased an interest m it, being satisfied of the valuable character of the stone. The gully, below the reef was worked as a sluicing claim, and carried auriferous quartz. The width of the reef is five feet. The facilities for working the mine are most favorable, as a valuable water righ> has been secured, which commands the ground. 'We are irfortced that roughly estimated, the stone is certain to yield not less than from 3to 4 ounces of a o ld to Lhe ton an excellent prospect having been obtained right through the roef and also in the casing.

- "notified byadvertisement in tbe 'Oraeo Daily limes', that the men employed at the Cromwell Company's „ef», intend to strike against a reduction of tfceir and requesting "the sympathy and support of all. miners by not coming to Bendigo while the strike 13 on." s _ The County of Maniototo, should the Counties Act ever become operative in Otaco embraces nearly the whole of the MountldaElectoraldistrict. TheSIyJSSS of our preserves poached npon is the Macros corner of tbe district, thence to the Taieri Kiver. ihe township of Hyde, and Main's Sl de of the river are included in. the Maniototo County. We think this is about as good an arrangement as could be made. T t Iwf + r mai V° r Maniototians to say whether they will go m for a County, and ocal managementoftbeTOks, or whether they wi leave it with the Public Works Of. nee in Wellington. ' The fourth session—a most successful one —of the Caledonian Society's evening clasaes terminated on Monday last. We observe m the first class (Mr. Ferguson's) the SSrf Mr. E. Inder, asßeserving of notice for home exercises. Mr. Ferguson also recommend* I ST. S1 " , ! d ' J«aior mathematical class at the University next session. Wb have received a copv ot lh e Provincial that sublet to the provision, of any Act or Ant. to be passed ,n the p- es ent session of Parhsm«nt the provisions of the "Provincial Appropriation. Extemion" Act, 1875» Zn continue m force unti! tbe day of December, one thousand hundred and seve ty- B ,x, and the words'thirtieth d 9 y of oeptpmber throughout the said Act R h,ii hi read as and shall be deemed ty-first d«y of December." £ T this it »fn be seen th.t the Pretrial are to be continued until the Slffoftw! Ki-t • \° P / OTinces we to be actually abolished on the day after the last day of the present aession. We presume it i 8 i'nfnded toroaratsm ProvinciaireatabliehroenUuntil th» end of the pwwnfc yew.

TitK new Cdnrfc House ft Lawrence Las at last been opened, after remaining idle for twelve months. The ns'w Court House at Naseby, lately finished, has not been yet opened, and it is not kuowa wlitn it will be. IloiiLHß-sitATivo bids fair to become a faYOrito pasttitrto in Naseby. Mr. Pinder, of the Empire Hotel, is in possession of several pairs, and on one or two occasions lately they h*ye boon tried in the Town Hall, And the amneoroent has been pronounced a very good substitute for ice skating. We nnderetand that, if sufficient inducement offers, Mr. Pinder will make arrangements for the establishment of a rink. Tiib lecture on behalf of the Atbemeum, announced to be delivered oti Thursday evening by H. W. Kobinson, Esq., Ims been postponed to Friday, October 20. Through some misunderstanding the bellman bud not 1 een ncnt round, and, at the time fixed for the lecture to be"in, the ntt.endanco was so small that it was P (boug!it better to put it off. Lahrikikism is a thing against which nil persons of common sense must and do set their faces. There are, however, several descriptions of this commodity—some harmless, done, perhaps, in thoughtlessness; some in the mere spirit of exuberant boyhood; others with evil and bad intentions, and with malice aforethought. Of the latter two phases we have, we regret to say, had in this township a very perfect demonstration since our la9t issue. The first in order was the hoisting at the top of the different flagpoles in the .town pieces of crockeryWare of anything but an ornamental character. The issuo was simply the casting of ridicule, not upon the or their owners, but npon the simple fools who, in the ripeness of their boyish o," silly mirth, thought lit to indulge in what we presume t'v?v i<. tended as a good practical joke, The second act of larrikinism—to which we cannot refer without feelings of the moit supreme- dis- ■ gust—was of amove serious nature, which consisted in the smearing and daubing with f night-soil the front; doors, and windows of a respectable citizen's house, alike to his loathk ing as to that of every decent member of the community. This act he can look upon in no other light than having been committed in the most determined and premeditated manner. We do not envy the offence which must necessarily have been done to the, olfactory organs of the perpetrators of this revolting act; but we think that the police should be so instructed in the matter, and such precautions taken, as to render such a . scandal against common decency impossible. The police, although very persevering in their efforts, have not yet been successful in securing the scoundrels.