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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 410, 3 February 1877, Page 3

Tbe ' Cl'utha deader' in its last issue* ha 3 tbe-folldwing article iu reT'erance to the purposed mission to England: "It will be'seeD i'rom the correspondence published in this issue tbat m consequence of tbe vonlioued indisposition of !Sir George Grey tbe proposed mission to England ia eonnee--1 ioii with tbe repeat constitutional -changes must for i lie present be abandoned. While this will be regretted )jj many, all will be sorry to learn that the slate of health of (he veteran statesman lias been tbe cause, and that for the present he is laid aside atid prevented from taking part in the public business of the country. We believe thai considerable sums of money were collected towards the expence of the propocd mission, and we presume that the greater part of it. h still available for some purpose or other; There is one object towards winch we believe it might be applied with the unanimous consent .61' the subscribers. It will be remembered that during last session of Assembly, and since then, the opinions of numerous eminent lawyers were given to the effect that the abolition of the Provinces by the Genera] Assembly was ultra vires —was an illegal act, and the members of the Opposition were taunted with challenges for au appeal todhe law courts. We sttggesfc that the challenge be taken tip by the Council of the Convention, and that the question be fairly tried before the proper tribunal. This would set the question of the legality or illegality of the Abolition Act at rest, and we believe would be a popu'ar mode of disposing of the funds in the bands of the treasurer to the Council."

" The Bailway to chtjistch'itkch:.—' " Guardian " of Saturday writes : The following, we understand, will be "something like the arrangement'under which trains will fun oo the OatnaruChristehurcb. line during next month. The times of departure of the traius are given approximately hut they may be taken as being tolerably ex.aefc:—Passenger train leave Christen ur'r-h line for Oatnaru at 7.15 a.m.; mix-eel traius leave Timaru for Oatnaru. at 7.15 a.m. and at 4 p.m.; good* trains leave Waimate for Oatnaru at ~..80 p.m.; passenger trains leave Oatnaru for Christchureh at 7 a.m.; mixed trains leave Oamaru for "Wairoate Junction at 10.45 a.m., and leave Oamaru for Timaru at 4 p.m.,