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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 402, 25 November 1876, Page 2

St Andsbws Day, 30th hist, is s Bank Holiday.

A heeting of Volunteers is called for Man. day evening, at 8 p.m. Owkn Lavekti's body was not roported found up to Wednesday evening. A vigil*a search was still being trade.

Shbabing is reported as in full »Ting at the Mount Ida Pastoral Company's E*eburn Station, also at the stations of Mr. Watson Shennan, Messrs. Chap nan, and Messrs. Murray, .Roberts, and Co. The Hospital Committee have agreed to request the Clergymen of the various denominations in Naseby, to set apart a Sunday on which to hold special services iu aid of the i public funJs. •]• Hrs Hoxor Judge Habyey has kindly consented to deliver a lecrure in aid of the district Hospital on Thursday evening next, at Naseby—subject: " Eemmisences of the Bench and the 'But." An essay was read in the Ark of Safety Lodge, I 0 G.T., on Monday evening last by Bro. W. H. Ash, D D.G. W.C.T., the subject being "Tattling."' A large number of members were present. The essay was very favorably received. The next essay will be given by Bra. M'Nicol, at an early date. Thk Progress Committee of St. Bathana, having been applied to by the Council of the Otago Convention for co-operation in the subscription now being raised throughout the Province to send a delegation to England, have replied through their Secretary, Mr. T. Mulvey, in most favorable terms. A meeting to consider the best mode of supporting the movement has been fixed for Friday, the. 24th instant.

Governor Tildkn, of New York. i« American President. The gre t influence of the late admrnistration was powerless to ret rn Tilden's opponent, General Wheeler. The democratic victory is a sign th t America is determined to stamp out the corruption for which her public men were becoming famous. The 'Star' states :—" By the adoption of the platform of his party Tilden stands committed to a reformation of the administration of the Federal Government; to the repeal of the Resumption Act of 1875; to levying customs dues for the purposes of taxation only; and to putting an end to the system which regards the Civil Service of his country as the brief reward of party zeaL The result of the State, and now of the Presidental election, proves that a Democratic reaction has set in in strong force; and the acts of that party in the closing hours of the last Congress, point to the probable impeachment of Grant and the principal members of his Administration,"

A TiKCTtrRK on behalf of the District Hospital was given, as advertised, nt St. Jiatlvms, -on Tuesdiiy, the 2lat, by Mr. H. W. Robinson, Mr. John Ewing in the chair. The attendance was not largo, but the Chairman took occasion to remark (hat more tickets must have been sold, the holders of which wore unable to attend. Mr. Ewing, in introducing the lecturer, made a jimrtilarly neat and appropriate speech, which we regret we were unable to report. The amount received for the Hospital fund wo have not learnt. The 'Clutha Leader' learns from various quarters that the public are responding very liberally to the call made by the Otago Convention, and thus giving the most practical evidence of their earnestness in the work. In Balclutha the members have succeeded beyond their expectations, and, with one or two exceptions, have met with a moat cordial reception This is as it should be, as the labor is a gratuitous one, and we have no doubt the sums now given will be re-productive a thou- j aaud-fold. As a sign of holiday-making ahead, we observed lady collectors busily engaged during the week in making what appeared to be a very successful raid upon the pocketa of the Naceby storekeepers and others, to obtain funds for the annual treat given to the children of the Episcopuliuti Naseby Sunday Schoo'. It never raiua but it pours. We therefore expect ere long to bo similarly attacked in the interest* of the children of the Presbyterian .Sabbath School. The annual treat has alwnya been looked forward to with great gusto by our Naseby youngsters. The ' Westport Times,' referring to the in" itiation of the County Act, writes:—"The public should at least be given time to gain an insight a3 to th ■ scope of the new Act, and be allowed, so far as the power is given, to exercise the privilege of adopting or de•clining, for the present, the full exercise of County Government. To force the system s into full bloom, if the term may be used, in districts where present revenues will not do much more than cover the County working expenses, will be only to increase the number of drones living at the public cost.' - j Tub Naseby Municipal Council have decided upon a rate of Is tor the ensuing year. Under the circumstances we hardly see how the Council Opposition could be in earnest in their proposal to levy Gd only. The difference to the borough fund would be, as his Wor.hip pointed Jut, £2OO. To have forgone tbh would have been to rend r it impossible for the £IOO to be paid to sinking fund iu liquidation of the debt. The only alternative would be to forego works of any sort, even street-cleaning, in which case we might quickly expect a visit from fever. If the Council succeed in keeping away disease, the odd sixpence may very well be given un- • grudgingly. The ' Arrow Observer' last week writes, urging the A rrow ratepayers to at once forsake their Municipality, and, with the large influence thus given to the County of Lakeland, secure the seat of County Government at Arrowtown. Queenstown, the ' Observer' states, is so overburdened with debt it cannot do likewise. The benefits that.are to accrue to Arrow, Clyde, Tuapeka, or Queenstown by boing County Towns we confess to be beyond our discerning. Yet it is barely a stretch of charity to conjecture from the tone of article in the newspapers published in those centres that the hope of such a consummation of bliss has alone determined both pafiers and Councils to be nationalists, and go or Abolition. The unfortunate death of Mr. Owen Laverty—which, in common with all who knew him, we most sincerely deplore—again draws attention to the dangerous condition of the ford at lMardling's Ferry, Hyde. It is most unfortunate, -when tne gradual completion of largo works in and near th : more settled districts was relieving the Treasury, so that there was hope that the few works in the inteiior which were so urgently needed could be provided for, that a harassing change should arise, making it difficult to know to •what governing body to look for the fulfilment of the pledges of the past. No work has been more often promised by the Provincial Government than the bridge at Alardling's. Unless the General Government can be induced to construct the bridge, charging the cost against the land fund of the Province, the Counties of Waikotiaiti anil Maniototo will require to find the money themselves. That the river can go unbridged for another year is out of the question. The value in human lives lost at this dangerous crossing would long since have built many bridges.