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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 405, 21 December 1876, Page 3

Mr Vincent Pyke, MHR, is returned unopposed for Kawaru riding, Vincent County.

The Rev Mr Bannerman has arrived in the Oamaru.

The Juvenile Templars will give a concert at an early date. Tiie programme of Oddfellow's picnic and sports will be seen in another column.

Moenixg Sbbvicb will be held at St George's Church, "Naseby, on Christmas Dav. St Pateick's School broke up this day afternoon, until the 22nd of January.. A report of proceedings will appear next week. Owing to the Court House being closed to-day, we are unable to publish mining applications to date.

Mb E C Smith and Mr William Sutherland are nominated for the riding of Otekaike, Waitaki County x { Monday the 25th and Tuesday 26th, being Christmas Day and Boxing Day, will be Bank holidays.

Mb J C Brown, MHR, is returned unopposed for Brown's riding, Tuapeka County. Mr Horace Bastings, MHB, is one of three nominated for James riding in the same County. The arrears in school fees at the Naseby District School are greater this year than on any other previous occasion. It is to be hoped that the notification in another column will not need to be repeated:

The election for two Councillors for the riding of Mount Ida takes place on .Friday the 22nd. The polling place appointed is the Court House, Naseby. The election at Edmond's Store, terpentine, for one Councillor for Serpentine riding will also take place tomorrow.

An essay was read in the Ark of Safety Lodge, 1.0. G.T., on Monday evening last by Bro Malcolm M'Nicol, the subject being " Whom we should admit." A large number of members were present. The essay was very favorably received. Tub Statutory Annual wfeeting will be held at the School House Nasoby, on Monday Bth January, 1877 at half past seven. We presume similar meetings will have to be held at the School Houses at Cambrian, St. Bathans, Kyeburn Diggings, Hyde, and Hamilton, on the same day.

A cricket match between married and single is proposed for Christmas Day. If teams can be got up the game will begin at 2 p.m., and should prove an amusing match. The batclielors are said to have a long way the best of it, but the veterans may tell us a different tale yet.

We draw attention to a sale of valuable property by Messrs Inder and George, instructed by Mr Or H Smith, at St Bathans, on Thursday December 28th, at noon. Town sections, mining property, furniture and sundries. Full particulars can be seen by handbills in circulation, and also by advertisement.

A special meeting of tha Naseby Municipal Council was held at the Town Hall last night to take up arrears of business. There wa3 a full muster of Councillors. No srrears of business were cleared off. A dispute was started as to whether the Mayor, had been absent without leave for over a calendar month, and so had become disqualified, and liable to a penalty of £SO. The Mayor vacated the chair, leaving it to the enemy to do as they liked. Probably the subject will crop up again at the ordinary meeting on Thursday next. The Council appear determined co immortalise themselves.

We have received the second part of vol 1 of " The New Zealand Justice of the Peace," published by Mr R T Wheeler, Dunedin, and edited by Mr G B Barton, barrister. The work promises to be a verv valuable one, and, in the hands of local Justices, should speedily remove from them the partially deserved rebuke administered to them, in common with Resident Magistrate's, by Mr Bees, MHR, and Mr Whitaker, who " quite agreed with Mr Rees that the administration of justice in out-districts was of a very rough character." The serial also cannot fail to be useful to the general public. The work can be procured from Mr L W Busch, Naseby, or from the publisher.

The usual Christmas services at St Patrick's Church, Naseby will be conducted by the Rev E Royer. Midnight Mass will take place at midnight, after which a sermon will be preached. The Rev gentleman, we understand, will, in his address, travel a little out of the beaten theologic track he has followed so many years, and draw more upon his experience of the progress materially made during the last twenty or thirty years, leading up his audience to sublimer thoughts of gratitude and joy. On Christmas Day service will be at 9 a.m., High Mass at 11 a.m. and sermon. The services will conclude at 7 p.m. with Vespers and the benediction. An inquest was heldjit the Court House, Hamilton, before H. W. Robinson, Esq., the district Coroner, on view of the body of .Pak Chong, a Chinaman, who had been drowned the same morning at Rise and Shine Grully. It appeared that a party of Chinese had recently made a i eservoir by damming the outlet of some old workings. On the morning in question Pak Chong was sent to turn on the water from the dam for working, when one of the embankments gave way, and he was swept down the gully a distance of more than a quarter of a mile, where he was picked up quite dead. The jury found a verdict of " accidental death," but remarked that the dam had been very carelessly and weakly constructed.