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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 397, 20 October 1876, Page 2

The great English tenor Mr.' Sims. Reeves intends making a professional .tour of the Colonies. . ' ■".•'. : '/ _, A TEiiEGBAM in the .'Star,'. dated 1 Enmara, iOctober 16, says:—lt w estimated that between six and seven hundred arrived here last week, and nearly the same number left. Unless .the lead is traced in a more compact form, when probably it will prove rich, many more will leave. The present sinking is Bft., and the claims -wide. Some get payable -wash ; others none. The deposits of wash are patchy and uncertain. Claims have been taken up. one mile and a half ahead,.as far as Kapitea Creek, on the line of the race, and many are prospecting the surrounding country, from which fresh discoveries are hoped. If these discoveries are made there will be a great exodus, from here as hundreds are waiting and shepherding in the meantime. The township is building rapidly, the sawmills, of which there are two, working day and night, while supplies from Hokitika are also coining A great number of prospecting claini3"on the lead, will bottom this week. More gold is offering on account of the last rain. Makiototo Cottnty is bounded towards the north by Waitaki County, from Mount St. Bathans to Kakanui Peak ; towards the east by Waikoueiti County, from the ILaianui Peak to a point in the centre of the Ta:eri river m a hne with Smooth Cone, and Bock and Pillar mountain ; thence by a right line to Soutra Hill; thence along the summit of the Lammerlaw range and Kough Eidge to South Kough Bidge Hill; thence by a right line to North Bough Bidge Hill ; thence along that Bidge to tbe southern boundary of Bun 225 ; thence by that boundary to Ida Burn ; thence along the centre of Ida Burn and Manuherikia rirer to Lander creek; thence along the centre of that stream to ita source ; thence straight to the summit of the Dunstan mountains, and along that summit, by the western boundary or Bun No. 226, to a peak near Dunstan pass ; thence by a straight line to St. the starting point.

Tnn Dnnedm Cup, to bo rim in March next, has been increased to £SOO. Tii'i outward mail, via Suez .md Briiidisl, will close at tho district pent offices on Monday next. Mb..W. M. IIonGKW3, of Dunedin, baa been elected to represent the Nasoby district iu the Church of England Synod for the Diocese of Duucdiu. In Auckland, last week, chests of drawers, belonging to the Rev. Father Paul were sold by auction in satisfaction of the Education rate. Wis regret that, owing to a pressure of advertisenv nta at a late hour, our Hyde and other correspondence had to be withheld till next issue. Scmb time apo we drew attention to the great scarcity of labor in this district. Tho demand for experienced labor is not yet supplied. Chinamen at Bs. per day are difficult to obtain. BAitKß's IJiberrucon wm exhibited at tho Town Hull on tho evenings of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday lust. During the evening several fion«s and ducts were sapitally given by Mr. and Mrs. Baker. Tho panorama includes coma of the finest -views in Ireland. The lecture by H.W.Robinson, Esq., in aid of the funds of tho Athenccuai, will be delivered this evening. The subject—" Mining Popularly Considered"—is an instructive one, aud in Mr. P.obinson's handa will bo dune full justice to. We trust that on this 'occasion there will bo a good attendance. A dance wi»l take place after the delivery of the leeturo In responding to tho request of the Moun Ida District Hospital Committee, the Naseby Brass Hand have succeeded in making up a program nits for an entertainment of a more than usurdly attractive character. Several iinmt.eurs of well-known ability from St. Ea'tlirtiis (in addition to our local talent), are announced to take a part in the entertainment. Apart from tho deserving object of the performmice (in aid of tho funds of the Hospital) tho superior attract ioub oftlio programme should, in itself, induce a crowded house. W)i have lately heard some " tall blow" aneufc big gooseberries—A well-known Maniotol.ian bonifaeo being anxious to back his prospective " bis; 'uas " against similar delicacies grown in tho district, has frightened all the growers, but another brother of the craft, determined not to be outdone or out-blown, interviewed ub in tho beginning «f the week, but. on this occasion eggs were trumps. Our latter friend, believing in tho present, presented us with a hen's egg which pulled tho scale at tho decent weight of Sjozs., and assured us that ho has had eggs considerably larger—ono going ov«r 50/.s. Can any of our readers inform us on what terms these rivals, hemes and eggs, can meet ? For our part wo believe in «ggs in esse to borries in posse.