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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 494, 4 January 1879, Page 2

Me. dts Lautoue-, M.H R., intends visiting the district oh or about the 22nd instant. The Naseby Borough Council, at its meeting to-morrow evening: will eleot amember to represent it on the Mount Ida Trust." The.Mount Ida Annual .Races take place on Thursday and Friday next, '9th and 10th January. The recent showers have improved the crops in this district, and the prospects of a good harvest are better. : A spkuial.meetingof the Maniot'oto County Council will be held on Tnesday next for the purpose of electing a member of the Mount Ida Trust, and other special business. Oxe of our local athletes (Ben. Hore) has entered in the three wrestling matches at the Caledonian Society's games.' in' Dunedin. Thomas, the Champion of Victoria, has also entered for the several events. The usual half-yearly summoned meeting of the Loyal JS T aseby Lodge was held on the 20th December for the election of officers for the ensuing half year. The following breth-. ren were elected:—N.G., Bro. R., P. Botting ; VG, Bto. H. Schoen ; E.S., Bro. J. Lory. Bro. D. langmaak passing into the G.M. Chair. The New Year was ushered in as usual in this place by a display of fireworks, 'the Brass Band promenading the principal thoroughfare, and the time honored demonstrations of 'good feeling. Short services were held in the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, which were very well attended, and afforded an opportunity to those wb" preferred it to welcome the advent of 1879 iu this solemn manner. "\Ve understand that Mr. Edward Devine has become the purchaser of the entire co ching establishment of Mr. R.. T. Po-de,who will cease to run his coach by Hyde and Macraes after this week. Mr. Poole has been distinguished for careful and steady driving, and did much to make the Strathtaieri route to Naseby popular among trasellers. Mr. Devine, wo feel sure, will attract many travellers by this route as much from his obliging disposition as from Ms general popularity.

In consequence of the similarity between the penny postage stamp and the penny duty stamp, and frequent wrong uses made .of both, whereby accounts "Occasionally remain uureccipt'ed in law, and letters and newspapers are detained for postage, the Secretary for Stamps has notified that the duty stamp will in futu.e be printed in bine, and the postage stamp in inauvo. The public are especially requested to note that the duty stamp is of no avail for postage, and that letters or newspapers so stamped are detained for deficient postage. If the shape of the stamp were altered there would be less livelihood of mistake being made. The Mount Ida Cemetery Managers met on. the 28th u?t.—present: Hesßrs. W. Inder (chair), J. Brown, and L, W. Susch. The

minutes of lastf meeting -were read and con firmed. Accounts amounting* to -£] 1 15s were passed for payment. Mr. Busch gavo notice that at next meeting he would prc-nose that .the Managers- of "the". Cemetery should undertake to.keep in proper-order, for-eeven years, any se;tion taken up'as a grave 'on a single payment o' £3. He would also propose that the-walks be cleared, and the footpaths and sections be defined.

Afield of corn at the Waimate junction, was ignited, on Saturday last, by a spark irom a passing train. MB.-H. Bastings, M.H.E, was entertamed at a banquet at Tapanui on Monday evening last, and presented* with a purse of 500 sovereigns. The Government has promised to continue, for the next twelve months, the system of a eT S ° ne railWaj Pa3S t0 each new 3' It is reported that the Hon, Major KichUpper House, and that Sir William Fitzh«: bert will retain the Speakeiship cf the Lowi th?wJSt laßt A^strali ™ learn that the Kelly gang are still/at ] aive notw ith . have S an^o o undS Bare \W *™ The heavy rains which visited the Canterbury province on the 30th did aim!! amount of good' to the crops The r£s " r ° stil dangerously high, and, through th« bridges being injured railwaytraffic wul be interrupted for several days. IT is anticipated considerable difficulty will be experienced in. the administration of Th o Land Tax scheme, particularly in the wav of getting information as to the value of f/nf Ihe expenses also in connection with fh. valuation are said to be far in excess o f\£t waa estimated. »«*& wirt slates The Mecca with 300 Chinese passengers was tof-oifc wrecked on Good Islands the 24rh * f She struck a reef when going at full speed her bot om.-was smashed in, and in S & minutes' time she had filled.. The crew and • passengers were landed on Thursday Island Only ten tons of cargo were saved '

With the year has commenced several changes iq the mail routes,- and drivers of" . the coaches m the interior. I n future that St. Bathans and Cambrian, in which is fe cated a large and prosperous resident minine and agricultural population,- will be v£Sf for the first time by the mail caches On tS way to aud-from Clyde. Our old friend Mr y H. Nettleford succeeds Mr. E. Devineon Waihemo route to -Naseby..: /*

MR Wnham Pateraon, who for manyyo'srs held the position of assayer * 0 the JfaS"J Australasia,, at Melbourne, has invented a new process for the recovery of ™ld »■,.,» il~ lost in the crushing mills on di^£ 3 '' "a I recent trial twenty tons of tailing," *ere p ufc through the machine at the sp fctJ d of one ton lev hour, which, we are told yielded about 3 cwfc " of pyrites and other heavy minerals, whX on being retorted y,elded £5 worth .'ofgoH This result was regarded as highly aatwfactorr being at least a profit of 50 per cent on ufeprocess. Another experiment was made on lead slime; .one-of the most factory su b .- staneesto retain under ariy'proc»«s'to tu» <Xtent of 10 cwt. The cwt of finely puTver.zed -galena. The fi»b galena. The fi,sl box had°it al.-„ ost fnl pt-o state, m the last box .about 75 per cent of pure galena—lead ore—was obtained Tha patentee should visit .this colony'because there are thousands of tons of'tailings on our fields, known to.be very rich-.and well worth being operated on by-Mr.' Paterson's process. Another presentation took place in Dun. ediu on Monday night to Cr H. S. Fish bv the citizens of dunedin in recognition of his public The total.atuouut of money collected was £l5B. The presentation co/ sisted of a large salver, a claret jug, audhalf-a-dozen goblets, all of silver. Tb» clref piece of plate brfre the following inscription : - Presented by the citizens of Dunedin to H. S. Fish, jun , Esq., as a mark o£ their teem, and in recognition of the valuable public services he has rendered to the City durE£s" P -pf y ga «—December 3()fh, 18/6. lheOhairuiautheu made a furtherpresentation to Mr. Fish for Mrs. Fish consisting of a gold brooch, with ooal centre, set in a double circle of diamonds, with enamelled backgrjuud and gold tassel. ' We unde?-stand that three-pounds weight of quartz from a claim in the Hindou distnet, after being pounded in a mo rtar and panned out, yielded about U grains of K old, 7oz. to the ton, and it Is expected that, with proper appliances, the stone would ' go considerably more. The owners of the claim are so sanguine of the prospects thac they do not intend to pat it into a company They are arranging to have machinery up in the course of six months. Macbiuer-/ is now being erected on another claim, so that the .xiindon reefs should soon be fairly tested.— i.ierakl.' J

1 he German Minister of Instruction, in a recent reporc on th« influence of gaslight on the eye, concludes that no evil results follow a moderate use of. gas, if the direct action of the. yellow'flame on the eye is prevented, ~ objections are made to zinc or lead' ': shades most evils, affecting tlie eye 'ieing ' tradable to them. Their use, it is sad, inevitably tends to blindness or inflammation, and other harmful effects. The milky white glass shada is the best, as it distributes the light, and has a wateful effect o.i the eye. The burner should not be too close to the head, as congestion of the forehead and headaches result from the radiated heat. 'I he glass plate below the gas if, especially useful for the purpose, as it causes an equ.il distribution of the light—necessary where a number aie Vorking at one turner—prevents the radiation of heat, and tejds to a steady illumination by shieldipgthVilames from currents of air. In cases of highly inflamed eyes, he recommends dark blue globes;