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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 441, 27 September 1877, Page 3

A BT2pout of the proceedings of tho County Council on Wednesday last will appear in our issue of Saturday. Tmi.tn shocks of earthquake occurred at Wellington on Saturday last. The last shock, was the most severe that has been experienced for years. The Resident Magistrate of Oamaru, in the cases of sly-grog-selling against Bobert Xecnan and Pachiiel Grace, boarding-house keepers, fined tho former £ls and tho latter £5.

Fott.ktkks applications wore lodged at the Court House, Naseby, ou Tuesday last (tho day appointed for receiving application?) for land iu the Bmall block recently surroyed on Messrs. Rich, Stowait, and Mackenzie's run. There is a steady demand for land in the Kyeburn Hundred. Wo understand that Messrs. Booth and Co., of Oavuivru, have purchased 12C0 acres, and Messrs. Malleoli Brothers, of Kyoburn, 980 acres, on this Hundred. There is little but the refuse of the various blocks opened in the district remaining now unapplied for.

This Blaekstone Hill School Committee is ono of tho most cnergelio in the Southern Hemisphere. Determined that the children in the district shall bo educated, they yet find it difficult to mate the two ends meet. But thoy take a philosophic view of the matter, and resolve that, if they have to pay heavily, they will, at any rate, enjoy the best value for their money. When, therefore, the funds of the school are becoming low, a concert is held, at which everyone living within a reasonable distance considers it hia bounden duty to be present. The money requisite is by this means easily obtained, and those who give it return homo after their evening's amusement wit h a sense rather of being under an obliga. tion to tho School Committee than of having conferred a favor. It ia quite refreshing to observe the determined and cheerful manner in which tho Blackstone Ilill people carry on their school. By referring to au advertisement in another column it will be seen that ono'of these concerto is to be held on October ISth.

A special meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerco was held on Saturday last to consider a telegram from. Mr. Vincent Pyke, M. H.E., with reference to opposition in Parliament to the proposed interior line of railway via Strathtaieri. A telegram from Mr. Pyke. was read, stating that the Hon. George M'Lean waa doing his utmost, in and out of the House, in the lobbies, in Bel lamy's, and in tho Cabinet, to oppose the lino. A resolution wa3 passed expressin" regret at Mr. M'Lean's action, and aslt ing the Otago Members, including those who are Members of the Government, to use their utmost efforts to secure the construction of tho Strathtaieri railway. The Hon. Mr. M'Lean was rather severely handled' by several of the members of the Chamber. 4 Guardian.'

Mkhsbh. Levin and Co., of Wellington, , have received a telegram from Messrs. Shaw, ' - •Savil!', and Co., confirming the loss of the Avalanche, and expressing their deepest sympathy with the relatives of those on board the ill-fated ship. It appears that the Avalanche was in charge of the pilot at tho timo of the collision, and lie was also lost with the vessol. Tho collision was evidently • a severe one, for the Forest also went down in a few minutes. The Avalanche was struck in tho moat dangerous place, amidships bein" considered tho weakest part in tho event o*f collision. According to the ' New Zealand .lines, Wanganui appears to have been a sufferer, whole farrilies formerly reaidfl.'ts of that town having gono do">vn in the Avalanche, The looa'a of the terrible fighting now going on in Bulgaria is thus sketched by the 'Daily News'' special correspondent with the Russian army Plevna is in tho hollow of a valley, lying north and south. The ground which intervenes between the Russians and this valley is flingularly diversified.

Imagine three great solid waves with their faces set towards the valley of Plevna, and thcrof°vi end on to ua also. The central vfavj is the widest of the three, and a cheval of it aVe the main 1 urkish positions, of which th' iV seem, three, one behind the other. A'. 'icmgh the broadest wave, it is not the highest. The right and left waves are both so hh'.h that one on the crest of wither can look down across thfc intervening valleys into the positions of the central wave.' But then the Turks are astride of all three wav??," — Hksshs. Tntjeii \KT) CrKonoK nnnonndti nnotlcn s-tlcx. at Nnseby ou Saturday, and at Hyde on y. A FDiit/ attonilanco of member-* of tho Ark of Safaty Lodge, loftT, is requested on Monday ovening lU'it.