HYDE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 439, 13 September 1877, Page 3

HYDE.

(From our owa correspondent,) Hydiyllth September. I think tho CKtiiblishmdnfc of quarterly sales at. Hyde is a step in the'riijht direction. Your advertisement in last issue sets forth that periodical sales of cattle, hordes, stock generally, and farming im • plements, &c., will beheld in Laverty's Commercial Saleyavds. No doubt the residents ol'= the immediate locality will derive a great benefit from the '-facilities thus brought, as it were, to their own doors, hereby offered of buying or selling all surplus or needed stock, or such other matters as are created by, or dependent on, agricultural or grazing industries. Hyde is'centrally situated with regard to Macraes, Hamilton, Maniototo, Kyeburn, Sowburn, and Strathtaieri, and the residents; of these places will find their interests get a fillip by the successful continuance of these " roups," as our friends north of the Tweed call them. Great preparations are being made for the inauguration vending, and I know that'more than fifty head of cattle, in prime condition, will be submitted to the fiat of the auctioneer's hammer. Stock of other kinds too, horses, and the snowy fleecebearers, to say nothing of the unclean animal (not so bad though as sucking pig roasted, streaky bacon, or appetite-tickling ham) will also be numerously placed, and should tempt a goodly collection of customers, The district is rapidly becoming an agricultural one, and, under more favorable circumstances, would Waste Lands Board and squatter permitting—make vast progressive headway. These sales will be a help, also, towards the advancement of the neighborhood, as they will bring together people from all parts of the Maniototo County, and, it is to be hoped, from other Shires as well. [Reciprocity of idea must be productive of good, and have a general tendency to make each. acquainted with the other's wants, &c.

Apropos of Waste Lands Boards, I may observe that, after two months of painful suspense waiting the arrival of the Waste Lands .Board's Commission to inspect Main's and Deep Dell runs, the Progress Committee has written to that procrastinatory body, asking why the delay, and " wanting to know, you know " when the Commission intends coming. The answer has not yet been received, but I daresry we shall not have to wait six weeks for a reply. But, as the Turks say, it is all Kismet with us where these gentlemen are concerned; and God only knows what that may bo. Our friends of Macraes, I fear, fare no better than ourselves with the land question, judging by the fact that no further steps are taken towards the opening the much-sought for Moonlight Hat;. and shall it be nothing but moonshine from the disposers, irresponsible disposers, of the Crown lands ?, Heaven or the Legislature forbid. ; The education question is ruffling the plumage of the Catholic doves, in their non-supported cotes or schools, and, like a rapacious hawk, flies about .killing or maiming them with its cruel Act and clawses (pardon the grammar), but the doves, when pressed for dear life, or for what is of more consequence, freedom of action civilly and religiously,"are turning to do battle with the bird of prey, as has been instanced throughout New Zealand, and particularly on the Maniototo—to wit, St. Bathans. and Naseby. It is refreshing to see the adherents of a such as that involved in the Education Act, are not inclined to have their rights trampled out without at least manifesting some sign of the faith within them. Here there are many Catholics, most of them fathers of large families. No doubt, although -it is late in the day, they too will help to swell the indignant cry against what their fellow-creedsmen in other places call this, "an iniquitous measure." If they intend doing so it must be done quickly, or else they will be behindhand in their efforts to support what Catholics call a good cause.