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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 581, 18 November 1880, Page 2

Tekdees for seTPral County works are to be lodged by noon oil Wednesday 24»h inst.' THE annual meetin* of the County Council of Maniototo, for the election of Chair-ran, will take"'place on Wednesday, Nor. 24th. The ordinary meeting will be held immediately afterwards.

The Home mails via San Francisco,arrireo! in Auckland on Sunday last. ; It is expected they will be delivered in the distriet on Friday, 19th.

The Nihilists who have been put on their t«*l for the - Winter Palace explosion hare received sentences. -Eire have had sentence of death passed upon,them, eleven are' sentenced torarious terms of labour in Siberian mines, six are recommended for mitigated punishment. •

Hartman, the Nihilist', telegraphs 'fron? Paris a full description of the mine which to hare blown up the Imperial train. He explains that the plot failed because an hour before the passage of the Imperial train a carriage came'aloner the line and cut the wire connecting;the dynamite with, the battery. ' Hartman asserts that there V are 13.005,000 organised Radio tls in Bussia.a A FcuiJ.l»Q- match between William Trickett arid Bush took place on Saturday last on the Paramafta'Rlvor. Rush won.easily by throe lengths'..' Betting- was' 5 to ; 4on Trickett. M^^^qs

-.. ; Thb S.orata has been safely floated ; and has been brought "to _thjf Semaphore, and will ultimately proceed tq.Melbourne. r . s

Otot Melbourne man got up fourteen £5,000 sweeps,, and fjilly ; his patrons

i A Chikksb gardener drew;the second prize of £IOOO in a sweep-on the Melbourne Cup. A Box with £s : ,ooojin gold, corniced to the Bank of New Zealand, is missing from the Tararua; which arrived on Sunday< lisl-| It is thought it has been i-leftj>at Dunedin, where. wa9 jtranshipjged from "the JEfawea. ''" [TT - r : Hch'nwka's discoTfertes in arctic vJnXI polar ratters generally are-yet baling -'dilfeusssd Condon Press. the latest contrioiitions" to the "subject is a letter ffpmi in reply in the ' Standard '.i™; It Twas notl,he arctic regiorij-'ihe -Franklin's the rieit worlds they: werejmutdered by tge contractor who slip piled the expedition |tp--wfiich^he-Belonged, -and«the tins labelled "Ibeef" and?d" mutton " contained nothing ' *SJ -v. J. 1{ ""~ ' ';■■ -■ -+-~Z ■■

Coull, the siiior*who- steered" the Sharinonjn the Chesapeake & off : Boston Harbour ih_lß'3pis dead, aged-95. He" was buried with rniiitary'honoro. ," A speciax meeting of the Borough Council wasjbeld inj the Council Chambers on Monday, eiening last. A-full Council was present. The was the opening of tenders for improvements in Broom street. The following tenders were'. lodged t.~ Fennowy and Christini, £55 2s ffl'j" J. Farmer, £lO5 10s ; :B : Gordon. £99 10s j- t. StSpheris, £55 5 H. Qiliespie, £SB 125.": -The tender'of Thomas Stephens was .accepted. -

The dry winds which have*prevailed during t.ha last few w'peks is affecting ths water iupply and if the present weather continues much longer serious; consequences will, we are afraid, be the; result. The winters of previous years coated the mountains; with 3ndw, leaving it as a legacy for the carrying of mining and other "operations during the months of springjariii sumriier. The mild ness of the past winter season left the mountains almost; b.we of snow, and the results will be tnoat disastrous both to mining ami agricultural oparations With the loss t en of onr usual sources of water supply we must "depend entirely : on an aim sually .moist sunimyr to make .go'ul tha" deficiencyV So far webiive tiad a remarkably dry one, and the ground is parched for the want of rain The races are bringing in a very_ limited quantity; of 'water, and levery day it is becoming less

A CA3E of much importance to the mining community was heard4n- the' Warden's Cour' recently.!;; Woodward ahd;otherß applied for extended :clniins-in Main* Gully within enclosed paddocks fenced and cropped'byMessrs Inder and Francis. Messrs Inder and Francis objected to the claims being granted unless they received compensation for damages to fences This the appicVnts refused to "pay The applicants 'urged 'upon the Court that Messrs Inderuhd Francis had no legal right to occupy and fehde'€ro«rn"Lands, even with the consult of the Pastoral lessees (the Mount II Pastoral Investment Obrhpany), as' they could give no right .to any one under .thtj terms of their leases and crop land, it oeiug within a, goldfield, and consequently miners had a right to go upon it 'legally to, search for gold, without tlie,c>ns«nt of Mpsirsln 'er and H rands The Warden refused hhe application :Pni ,t'ne ground .J.hafc;a'Messrs Inder r,and ;Francu had;; a- ppssessoryjstitie; and th*t ho could not go iuto the question ijs, : ta ; whether it. was a good and legal one or not. The applicants statedjtlieirjnjtjintjiqn, to,mark; out and work ordinary ofai'msV which' did nojb.requirethe consent of the Warden, and leave Messrs?/InJer.'aad.' 1 Francis;rfco leg.il remedy to prove thr.ii - rights',-.:■..>■; , 5 . .'• s^V-k.-

AT Clark's diggings the supply of water has not been so scarce for twelve yeais, at this early stage of the season- The miners there, instead of working continuous shifts, able to puf in ahouVeignt hours per-'day;- The only portion of the'Oounty at* the. .present time nob aff\ct.id through' a scarcity of water is St. Bathana and Oa m . Brian, which are supplied from t .ese tfeVeffaihng sources the Manuberikia river and the Dunstan Creek.

At the banquet given hv tlm 10-vvl b'-annh of the fiVm of .Vl.-ictrt.liuraiiilCo o- Auoltl -i.d, arthur, head of the firji. a* Lord Mayor of London, Mr M'Mi'.Un, nephew of the lafcie , .lu.respo.dinn. said that Mr_Mac:irthiir_w.a, -Hie"fi Mayor of London. At a meeting of the elec'ors of the Mataiira district., held in North Tnvercareill hst week amoiion to the effect—" That Mr Shanks M H. R , his not. the confidence of his eonsti tuent*, and that they di not desire anv j.exp]:>nHtion,of hisspnst, action, but are desiron* i-that he ohouM i;e<<igii .hi« wl3 carried iinahimbusly. k -^*si : miV»r -resolution was rlso unanimously carried at A- plebv. : ,- _ ATlhp,m^etin.gpl..the - T)iocp«on Synod 1 the Rev. Mr Hobbs' motion to abolish pew rents wis nqt received by the Rev. "•Mr,By.n£r, !who snid that he was oopoW-to free and unappropriated s-iats. T ley coiilri ofpew rents; and i.hei j'onsi.Jered it expe-iient that they should be charged. If they were • o net upon principle in this matter th»n the. fol :lowing sh%3j6| fgj|nr}@ "and that, b-iziars'oand M#a ineetihk*, !and all ext-aneous auxiliaries for furthering the cause -o?-,:-,Christ, other than voluntary contributions tier abandoned " If on prin-p'" they abolished seit rjnts, they should, to oe consistent—to sr.eak.praetic illy—give up their sneaking regard for bazaars, arid their parti for those greasy demonstrations of Christiani'.y called tea meetings. If this were donehe.wu'uliisupport the. motion,, but not otherwise. The motion was lost. '

Han LAN won the race with Trickett easily. Great interest was taken in the race for the championship The attendance of the public was enormous, crowds lining the banks of the river along the course. Tha betting at the start was greatly in favor of Hani in, who was in splendid form. The two nen went off with a good start in smooth water, Hanlan commencing with twenty eight and Trickett with thirty-four strokes a minute. They kept together for half a mile, pulling evenly, but afterwards Hanlan took the lead, and played with Trickett during the last three miles winning the race easily by fully two lengths. The time of the race was 26min. 12sec—[When Trickett defeated Sadler in. 1877 he did the distance in 23mia 15sec]