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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 38, 22 October 1869, Page 2

Our obituary of tlm day contains the sal of one well known and highly respected injM district. The funeral of the* late Mrs. ney took place at the cemetery, Naseby, I Tuesday afternoon last. There iraß a hm attendance of persons present, both from <M town, as also from Rou<jh Ridge. Blacfcfl Hill, and other places, desirous of testi&M there respect for the deceased, and their pathy with the bereaved hu<band and famM Mb. St. Bkv.mg.vn-, Chief Inspector oyfl Zealand Constabulary, arrived in DunediM Monday last from Wellington. We uncß stand that the object of Mr. Branisran's risj to arrange the affairs of the Otaso Constojl lary previously to his resignation of the <■ of Commissioner of the latter force, and t<r"l permanent assumption of his newer and higjj position. Several gentlemen are spoken jM likely to be successors to Mr. whose lot, however the office mav cerely trust he may be able to acquit creditably as the 'gentleman who and has up to the present time continue hold, the office has done. At the same n we would venture to express a hope that 1 Branigan may be as successful in his new more extended sphere of action as he has b? m his less exalted, hut no less responsit position in Ota go. He has our best' wish and we feel sure that of a large majority of t people of Otago for his success. We have so often expressed an opinion as the inexhaustibility of this goldfield, and i opinion ha« been so constantly borne oiitthe escort returns, that it would seem almj unnecessary again to revert to the suhjec nor should we have done so on the prese occasion were it not that the escort retui of the present fortnight show Mount Ida it position even above that honorable or.e whi she has hitherto occupied. While the fo nightly escort return, published in our prest issue, places Mount Ida at the head of thel with 1,2500z. ; the nearest approach to h|j Cromwell, proline in quartz reefs of ahf fabulous renown, with 7850z. ; the nexra rant for golden honors is Arrowtotpi, w'. ei7ox. lOdwtj while Clyde, Blacki, «

Alexandra are simply, in sporting parlance, nowhere. Queenstown boasts of 1,4640z., but as the escort from that place is only monthly, and sometimes even less frequent, she cannot be regarded as a rival to Mount Ida for the place of honor. We congratulate the district upon the highly honorable position which it has achieved, and which we doubt not, should the present season prove a favorable one, she will continue to maintain. Therb will be a sitting of the District Court On Wednesday, 10th November next. There are, we have been informed, four cases on appeal from Warden's Courts. We are indebted to the Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths for the following interesting particulars : —Births in the Mount Ida District for the year ended the 30th September last, 84 ; deaths, 19 (of which four were from I accidents ; marriages celebrated in the district, B—others8 —others of residents in the district celebrated in Dunedin and elsewhere, no return. A MKETixa of the Sustentation Committee was held in the Union Church on Friday evening last, Mr. Warden Robinson in the chair. A letter was read from Mr. D. Farquharson, Kyeburn, on behalf of the Kyeburn Committee, soliciting the occasional services of the Rev. Mr. Burchett of this town. It was resolved that the Rev. Mr. Burchett officiate at the Kyeburn one Sunday each month in the forenoon. Several other matters were brought up and discussed. The near approach of the racing season appears already to have put the sporting portion of the Naseby community on the qui vive, and on Wednesday last a considerable number of the lovers of the turf wended their way to the racecourse, to witness a private match which had been arranged to come off between Collett's c. g. Charley, and Cain's b. g. Doctor. The chesnut looked in fine condition, while the doctor bore unmistakeable evidence of having just come off grass. Distance one mile and a half. A fair start was effected, and a spirited race ensued, resulting in the Doctor coming in a winner by about thirty yards. The next event was a hurry-scurry, for which several horses started, but Mr. Packman's Rattler secured the prize. Then followed a trotting match, for which Mr; Francis' Ambler, Mr. Packman's Bones, and a grey horse started. The race, however, was entirely in Ambler's hands, and he won by about thirty yards. The next, was a race between Mr. Hall's Unknown and Mr. Parson's Cripple. This was a close race, but the Unknown pulled it through, and eame in an easy winner by a length.— [Communicated.']

Lettehs intended to be forwarded by the outgoing English mail must be posted in tfaseby on or before Monday next, at 1.30 p.m. We are always pleased when it ia in our pow«r to chronicle any prudent and wise action on the part of the Executive Government of Otago. We admit with sorrow that the occasions when we have been able to do so have hitherto been "lew and far between," but we trust in future they may become more frequent. The action to which we, on thei present occasion, desire to allude, is the plac-: ing of two wages men on the road between Kyebura and Eden Creek, to. fill in some of tiie worst holes and ruts. Already are the good effects visible,' and spots can now be passed with impxmity which only a few days since were dangerous in the extreme. We trust that these men will be kept permanently on the road until the tenders for the entire work is accepted. We extract the following from the local column of the ' Daily Times' of 13th inst. : " We are informed by the Chief Postmaster that Mr. ./. T. Chaplin's tender for conveying the Clyde mails via Mount Ida for the reniaindor of the current year, has been accepted by the Postmaster-General, and that consequently the mail coach now passes through the townsliip of Jfaseby twice weekly, going and returning."—We cannot but feel that there must be some misapprehension on the p irt of our contemporary in this matter. Mr. J. T. Chaplin may have made, and no doubt did make, an oSer or proposition to the Postmaster-General to convey the Dunstan mail via Naseby for the remainder of the present year, which offer we have reason to believe has been accepted ; but to.say that Mr. Chaplin's tender has been accepted is, we feel sure, incorrect—no tender for such service having been called for. We would remind all those who are desirous of upholding the liberty of the Press, and at the same time expressing their disapprobation of the persecution to which Mr. W. J. Henningham has been subjected for his honest and outspoken language, that the subscription list must be forwarded to Dunedin by lit Nov. Contributions will be received at the office of this paper. We would remind all parties interested that Mr Warden .Robinson will hold a Warden's Court at the Maerewhenua Diggings on Tuesday next, 26th instant.

The weather la*t week was cold and dreary in'the extreme, accompanied bv frequent and heavy'storms of snow, sleet, and rain. On Sunday an agreeable change took place, and since that time spring has once more returned, calm, fine, and genial. Vegetation is making rapid strides, and the trees in the gardens are in full blossom. The snow is now fast disappearing from the range, and the supply of water is at present abundant. Surface Hill is fast diminishing in size, and altering in shape and appearance, under the energetic labors of our enterprising miners. Clarks still continues to sustain the golden reputation it last year acquired, while from the Kyeburn the reports are equally satisfactory. Several large parties are washing up, anrl we fully anticipate having the pleasure of announcing the next escort to be at least equal in amount to the last. It will be »een by an advertisement in another column that a meeting of gentlemen favorable to the formation of a dramatic corps is appointed to take place at Horswell's Royal Hotel, on the evening of Friday, the 29th instant. We trust that there may be a good attendance, that the undertaking will be entered into with a spirit and determination so essential to success, and that- the day is not far distant'when the Naseby dramatic corps

will become an established fact;, thereby adding another and a new source of entertainment ao much needed in isolated commuhitits such as Naseby.