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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 496, 18 January 1879, Page 2

The Congregation of St. Andrew's Church, Dunedin, have unanimously resolved to apply to the Preabytery of Duhcdin to mode-, rate in a" call' to the Rev: E. Waddel of : Preb ; . leton.

■We notice by advertisement, in another column that the Member for the district, Mr. de Lautour, will address, his constituents at Naseby on Thursday the 23rd, and at St. Bathans the following day. Ws have received-a copy of Messrs. Mills, Dick, -and Co's Almanac, for 1879. This handy annual is replete witH most valuable information suitable for reference by all classes. The moderate price at which it is sold should insure a ready sale. Mr. L. W. Busch of this town is agent. A fine rainfall commenced at St. Bathans on Monday last and continued for some hours. It will prove very acceptable to miners and agriculturists in that locality. A- considerable quantity of run fell on Monday and Tuesday last. Although somewhat late for the oat crop, which this year will be very, light, through; the extraordinary drought of the past three reontbs, yet. greet good from the downfall will be apparent in other crops. The inquest on the body of John Waldreon, who shot himself after attpmpting to- shoot his wife, on the road to Blacks, was held at the laltT place on Tuesday last. A ver-lict was returned that the deceased shot himself in the bowels when laboring under lemporary insanity. Mra Waldreon although progressing favorably at St. Bathans, was too ill to attend.

Wis understand that his Worship the or has received a reply from the Hon. the Minister of Public Works, to the memorial of certain residents m the district praying for an alteration of the 10,000 acres selected- for settlement on Run No. 222 to a similiur area on a different part of the same Run, to the effect that the memorial will be duly -considered, and that Mr. Macandrew intends making a personal iuspec-tion of the land in question before the matter is finally settled. At a recent meeting of the Committee of Management of the Presbyterian - Church, it was resolved that an effort shou'd be/made at this time to raise a sum of money towards reducing, the debt which remains on the church. Cards were ordered to be printed, and distributed to collectors, who. were also appoint ed In this extensive and progressing district, this fact has only to be made known, and wefeel sure the efforts made by the collectors will be most cordially responded to. Thb fir t meeting of the newly forme Mount Ida Trust will be held in the County Council Chambers on Monday next, 2. tb iast. The members of the Trust are—Messrs. H. V 7. Robinson (Government nominee), John Ew ng (County .Chairman), Robert Glenn (Mayor cf Naseby), Samuel M'Cullough, and Walter Inder. The first duty of the Trust will probably be a strong representation to the Government to extend the works, and that unless assisted by a grant for extension of race and other necessary, works, ove* and above cost of maint nance., the sr ecial object for which the Trust was created will not be real? is«d. The TruEt should assume old age at once, and we have every reason to believe that.a plain straightforward statement of the present position of these public works; —the large area of new country their extension would open up, and the increase to revenue tHereby, as against the probable cost of construction of further extension of race, —would not only be listened to but acquiesced in by the Government.

Wb are glad to hear that Mrs. Waldreon, ■who was shot by her husb»nd laßt week at Blacks, as stated in last Saturday's issue, is progressing favorably towards recovery, under the care of Dr. Allan ; but she was, ud to the last hour of our being adv.'sed, unable to be moved to Blacks for the inquest from Mr. Kenny's hotel, St. Bathans, to which place she hau been removed. Dr. Allan hopes, we belive, to be able to save the arm, a pojtion of the flesh of which, between the elbow and the wrist, has been shot away. The unfortu nate woman bears up, considering the nature of the case, with considerable fortitude. In the Antonelli lawsuit the Court has decided in favor of the brothers Antonelli. The Countess Lamberti is required to give the name of her real mother.

At the last meeting of the Tuapeka County Council, Mr. Clayton sent in his resignation wbioh was accepted.- It was lesolved that no further works be undertaken unless arrangements are made for the' extension of overdraft. The letting of the advertised contracts has been postponed.

Thb Wellington ' Chronicle* thinks that the question re secular education should be made -a party question next session. The Government fare making careful enquiries regarding the feeling throughout the Colony on this subject. They will support secularism, and the ■ ChVonicle' thinks the Opposition will take up denominationalism. An improvement in the manufacture of horse collars has just been devised by a Philadelphia mechanic. The collar' Being stuffed with elastic cork, is light in weight, and adapts itself to the shape of the animal as readily as if it were moulded. It is highly elastic, does not chafe or gall the neck, and, the cork being a noo conductor, injury from heat is prevent^. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, during his stay in San Francisco, was pre<iented by a lady with a box of delicious trares and two bottles of wine, which was stated to have been made by " a good Presbyterian elder," and for " medicinal or communion purposes." Mr. Beocher, in a characteristic noire acknowledging the present, says;—" 'As to the wine, I have taken temperance sips of it, and find; it rather too enticing for ' communion übo.' It might load people to too free and open com inuuion. However, if made by.' a good Pres. byteriun elder," the Calvinism may save it."

. At Reefton the people are no better off for meat than their neighbors, if one tray judge by the following which appeared in a late iss 6 of the ' Inahgaliua Herald* :—There has not been a bite in Reefton for ; days past, and, as we heard it expressed tho other day, there rU>t a hoof from Okavito to West.por.V Fat

kine and lean kine, and in fact everybind ut kine, have been brought up and ' and the cry .is still* theyidon'ticome. Such ft - dearth of beef baan£ver* ■ bf-f6rei been - known on:the yVsat unif'sd'jairf^&U^ tiop : pfr is gone.*? • will beat a-prei^Ml&'tKJe'glidiily

The failure. of-the ib eome dis* . t-ricts; of,' yjctona; : ijr seleptors are .in' 1 their pecuniary liabilities.' "Tlife" qiitfctioh' will probably haveco be' dealt' -frith by the' • Cabinet.

Mft ; Lnckie, editor of.the 'Postii offered and accepted the commissionst-ship of Goverment acnuitiea &t a salary of £BOO »•' j'ear.

The. Duke o£ Buckingham.,. : .G.byerrior of Mauritius, desires to . come to-. Sydney aa <?oj>ernor. The candidates'for the •post are Sir J- Henry .Wispde and Sir Jamea f ergpsson. • .. ' ; • ' -

Professor-Ulricb, was-greatly pleased with the appearance of the Marewhenua Goldfields He says that, if the field was in Victoria it would attract a large mining .population,The great drawback iu the want of water.' : :

_Mrs Bravo'a will, according to 'Vanity Fair has been proved by W. H. Campbell, the otherexecutor (Mr. Orr) having declined to act. The will is dated February 20,1874 Z J he Property, was sworn under £60,000. Mrs. Bravo bequeaths £IOO to cv ee sons of Mra - Cox > and'. £IOOO, free of legacy duty, to Florence Qully, the daughter of William Court Gully. The residue of the estate is left to le divided among the children of W. H. Campbell.

The Grey County Council is-not in. a Very sound financial position. The Bank has im- • pounded the Governmei t remittances, and they have not the wherewithal to meet their present liabilities.

The Antt-Chinese Immigration Committee held a meeting in the City Chambers, Wellington, last week. The Hon. Mr. Gisborne gave, particulars regarding two Acts against Chinese immigration which were passed by the. Queensland Parliament and receiVed the Royal assent. By one of these a penalty of ±.lO was imposed ori. erery Chi anian who lander), the captains or owners of ships having to pay the amounts. Vessels might be estreated if the penalties were not paid. . The other: Act-compeiled the Chinese to- pay £3 for a miner's right, and £lO for a' business li-. cense. Mr. Gisborne suggested the Acta: should be published, and a committee appointed to draw up a report on the subject! '

The police: have arrested a large number of persona in tLe north eastern disl-'ct under the Outlawry',-Act, on.suspicion of being hush telegraphs for the. Kelly gang. Moat of them are confined in the Beech worth Gaol and a detachment of the Garrison Artillery has' been sent up to protect the gaol against - an attack twenty of the Kelly's sympathisers have been rem .ndid for a week by the Beechwortk liench. A late telegram dated Melbourne 14t h mat. states that the Kelly's are reported to hare been seen at the Lachlan River, ri.ey had four.fine horses and a pack horse with them. When noticed they broke camp and rode rapidly away, abandoning the pack horse, which was knocked up. ' Two troopers and three black trackers procured revolving rifles from a neighboring station, and pursued them on the Saturday following. They have not since been heard of. The" Kelly's were well armed when seen, and the pack horse ltfc by them was heavily laden.

The Hon. Mr. Stout(the Atto-ney-General) iu his address to his constituents in Dunedin the other evening'thus alluded to several questions of interest. The Hon. gentleman wjia cordially'received, and a unanimous rote of confidence was passed. In regard to triennial parliaments •he said That .in>"thi3 Colony, where our legislation is rapid, where questions.ar& changing, and new ones continually arising, that there should be frequent appeals to the people, and he therefore beluved that thtee years is quite long enough for any of our Parliaments to last..', With refere nee to the Chinese Question we ought to pass an Act similar tc that which is law in Queensland, restricting the arrival of Chinese to this Colony.—(Cheers.) . He believed that the whole of our civilisation might be interfered with if they we. e to come in unrestricted numbers to our shores. He pas not in favor of altering the mode in which deferred payment land: was* obtained from auction to ballot-i beeause the ballot system had caused a great deal of discontent. We were offering a good deal of deferred payment land just now, and he did net think it Would fetch su .h prices as for instance it did in Shag Valley. At bahot a man who applied :-for-twenty seer - tions might not get. one, while at auction lie gave what he thought to be a reasonableprice for the land.