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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 426, 9 June 1877, Page 3

Pabmament is Bummoned to meet on the 19lh July. Oub report of the County Council meeting of Wednesday bus to bo kept out until our Saturday's issue. Water was to-day turned into the channel ovor Currio's contract. The trial, we understand, was satisfactory. The monthly meeting of the Diatrict Hospital Committee was hold on Friday last, fhe business was unimportant.

The Government have instructed Mr Blair to report upon the most practicable and best route for the interior railways of Otago. The Maniototo County Council will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, the 20tbf|of June, to consider the railway question. The next ordinary meeting -will be held on tho 25th July.

Referring to an advertisement on the matter of the Macandrew Testimonial Fund, which will be found in another column, we have to intimate that we shall be happy to receive subscriptions," and to forward the same to the Central Committee. The agricultural lease block on Messrs Rich, Stewart, and Mackenzie's run is nearly all applied for. Two sections at the extreme ends of the block only remain, being sections No 1 and 9, comprising 138 acres and 114 acres respectively. At Hamiltons, Mr B. S. Booth has articulated a moa skeleton and placed it in the hands of Mrs E. Barber, who has kindly volunteered to exhibit it for the benefit of the District Hospital. Mr Booth calls it his model skeleton, as it comprises, with the exception of a few unimportant pieces, the bones of one bird, —larynx, hyoid, palate, and calcaneo-sesamoid bones, a complete string of tracheal and oesophagial rings, as well as a perfect spinal column from the tip of the caudle vertebra} to the point of the mandable. The specimen is well worth inspection apart from the object for which it will be exhibited. The monthly meeting of the Naseby School Committee was held on Monday last. The master wrote, drawing attention to the uncomfortable state of the school, in consequence of leakiness in the roof. Messrs W. lnder, D. Barron, and James Hore were elected members of Committee, subject to their consent, in the room of Messrs Wade, Pearson, and Gilmore, left the district. It was resolved to draw the attention of parents monthly to all cases where children were absent a fourth of the days during j which the school was open. Correspondence was read from the Secretary Edncation Board, and from the Secretary of the Society for promoting Economics in the Public Schools. Accounts in arrear were also dealt with, and the Secretary instructed to write to those in arrear before further proceedings were instituted to recover the same. At a late meeting of the Oamaru Eailway Committee, on the the motion of Mr Field, seconded by Mr bumpter, the following resolution was adopted:—" That applications be invited from competent persons willing to undertake immediately a flying survey, determining the best route, with estimate of cost, for a railway between Oamaru and Naseby, stating qualifications and terms of remuneration, to be sent in by Friday next at noon; also, that applications be received from persons willing to construct the line, stating terms; advertisements to be telegraphed to Christchurch and Dunedin." It was decided to send deputations to the Maniatoto and Waimate County Councils, for the purpose of obtaining the co-operation of those bodies. Messrs Steward, Miller, and Smith were appointed to wait on the Maniatoto Council, and Messrs Evans, Connell, and Gibbs to interview the Waimate Council. »■ ... . ■- Tendeiis arc required for tho erection of fifteen or sixteen chains of sod fencing. The annual Masonicjsoireo takes place on Friday, Juno 29th. J A bagatelle table ia for sale at the Victoria Hotel. Messrs. Inder and George announce a sale of household furniture and sundries in the Victoria Salo Rooms on Saturday, tho 9th. Sections in tho townships of Blairtaicri, Macraes, Hydo, Hampden, and Waikouaiti, and special Taluo agricultural sections in Swinburn and Kyeburn districts, will be sold at tho Court House, Palmerston, on the 29th June. '