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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 30, 27 August 1869, Page 2

We are glad to find that the Cemetery Committee are taking steps, by means of a subscription, to put themselves in funds'-to proceed to the formation of the road to " humanity's last testing place," We trust that the response to the application of the Committee will be such as to enable the road to be completed without delay. vWe wonder when the promised road between Kyeburn and Eden Creek, via Naseby, will be placed in a state of repair. The condition of that portion of the road approaching this township- isshnply disgraceful/"About a half mile from the top of the hill, before descending into the town, "there.is a gutter crossing the road which is impassable alike for drays and horses. On Tuesday evening last an unfortunate horseman was actually bogged in this quagmire, and had the, greatest difficulty in extricating himself and horse. The made portion of the rod descending from the terrace land into the town is daily becoming more and more dangerous, and will eventually require a considerable, amount to repair' it, when, up to the present time, a. small sum would have sufficed. Why, we should ask, are thiugs allowed to go on in this unsatisfactm-y manner, when a sum of £SOO has been appropriated by the. Provincial Council for the specific purpose of putting this road in good and sufficient order ? As we mentioned in a late issue the tenders for the conveyance of the mail from Palmerston to Dunstan, via Naseby, will be called for next month, and it is impossible to blink the fact that the amount at which tenders will be sent in for the service will be in a great, measure dependant upon the state of the l-oad to be traversed. The conduct of the Provincial authorities in the matter has been simply outrageous.

; There will be a sitting of the District Court on Wednesday, Bth September prox., before his Honor "Wilson Gray. The appeal case Duffy v. Matheson is clown for hearing. The monthly sitting of the Court of Petty Sessions will be held on Friday next (this day). We understand there are no cases for trial.

Oue correspondent from Tinkers in a letter which appears in this day's issue lays considerable stress upon, and attaches considerable importance to, the absence of a legally qualified niediealman iuthevarious centres of population, including St. Bathans, Welshmans, Drybread, Tinkers, Blacks, &c. The want of which our correspondent complains should, not be one of long duration, as the force in which applicants mustered to contest the appointment of surgeon for the Clyde Hospital abundantly proves that there are a sufficient number of members of the profession willing and ready to undertake up-country practice. What they naturally require is inducement, and that it is surely in the power and witiiin the means of the districts referred to offer. The "local union," to which cur correspondent refers, cannot fail to accomplish the object he has at heart, and this "local union" might, in our opinion be the more readily brought to bear by the appointment of committees in the different districts to canvass and take decided action in the matter.

• The English, mail will close at Natseby on Monday next, 30th August, at 12 noon. All letters and newspapers intended to be despatched, must be posted before that Lour. MiNlNa operations are being again carried on'with renewed Tigor. Snow has entirely disappeared—the mountain tops being the only exception. Water for sluicing is again plentiful, and we are glad to see from the escort returns that Mount Ida is fast approaching her oldpositionat theheadof the polhfrom. which the severe weather of the last month or six weeks haddi3placed her. Wehailtheevenfcasanomen of brighter times and of the cessation of the extreme dullness in business which has for some time past prevailed in the Hogburn.