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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 581, 20 November 1880, Page 2

TeivDees for several County works are to be lodged by noon on Wednesday 24' h inst.

The annual meeting of the County Council of Maniototo, for the election of Chair-ran, ■will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 24th. The ordinary meeting will be held immediately afterwards.

The Home mails via San Francisco arrived in Auckland on Sunday last. It is. expected they will be delivered in the district on Friday, 19th. •

■The Nihilist.9 who have been put on their trial for the Winter Palace explosion have received sentences. Five have had sentence of death passed upon them, eleven are sentenced to various terms of labour in Siberian mines, six are recommended for mitigated punishment. ; _.

Habtman', ' 1 he. Nihilist, telegraphs from' Paris a-full description of the mine -which "•as to hiive blown up the Imperial train. He explains that the plot failed because an hour before the passage of the Imperial train a carriage came alone the line and cut the wire connecting the dynamite with tha battery. Hat-tman' assert l ? -that there are 13-000,000 organised.-. Radicals in Russia.

A FctfLUJ'G match between . William Trickett. and Rush took place on Saturday last oh the Paramatta Riv>r. ' Rush won easily by three lengths. Betting was .5 to 4on Trickett.. . ""

Thb Sorata has been safely floated and has heei brought, to the Semaphore, and will ultimately proceed to Melbourne. Osv. Melb-nir.oe man got up fourteen £5.000 sweeps, and fully one-third of his patrons were, women.

A Ohtnkstj gardener drew the second prize of £IOOO in a sweep on the Melbourne Cup.

A Box wHh. £5 000 in gold, consigned |, O the Bant of New Zealand, is missing from the ste-iimhip Tnrarua, whieh-asrived on Sunday lost. Tt. is though*- possible that 'it has been left, at Dunsdin. where th<> Tararua's cargo was transhipped from the Hawea.

Ltetjt , i!:nan t t discoveries in arctic nnl rolnr matters generally are yet b-'incr Hit>eussf>d by t.ho L-mdon p res». Among the latest contributions to the subject is a letter from Commissioner Oheyne in reply to au article in the' Star.darH '. It. was not the arctic rogiorn he *iy*, that-sent Franklin's n.er> to the next, world ; they were murdered by the contractor who?uoplieH the expedi'ion tr. which he belonged, and th»tins labelled "beef* and "mutton" contained nothing but offal..

Georo- 1 ! Cou'l, the siilor who steered the Shannon in ilt* •cti.>n with'the Chesapeake off Boston Havhour in 1813, is dead, aged 95. He was buried with militarv honors.

A s°kciaTj meeting of the Borough Council was held in the Council Clvirnberion Monday evening last. A full Council was present. The bn«in ss w.13 the opening of lenders for i-ii! rovements in Broom street. The following tenders wpw lodg»d : Fennc«sy nnrt Chnst.ini. £55 2< 6'; J. Farmer, £lO5 10s; B Gordon, £99 10s ; T. vStephens, £55 ; H. Gillespie, £SB 12a. The tenier of Thomas Stephens whs accepted. Th.B dry which hare prevailed during fchfl last few weeks 19 affect ins; th<* witer supply and if the present weather continues much 1 on utr? serious consequences . will, we are afraid, 'be the result. The winters of previous years coated the mountains with snow, leaving it as a legacy for the carrying on of raining and other operations during the months of spring and summer. The mild ness of the past winter season left the mountains almost b.ire of snow, and the results will be most disastrous both to mining and agricultural opsrations With the loss t en of our usual sources of water supply we must depend entirely on an una sually moist summer to make go id the deficiency. . So far we have had a remarkably dry one, and the ground is parched for the wxnt nf rain The races are bringing in a very limited quantity of water, and every day it is becoming less A case of much importance to the mining community was heard in the Warden's Oour l . recently. Woodwnrd and others applied for extended elnitna in M=iin Gully within enclosed pnd.loeks fenced and cropped by Messrs Inder and Francis. Messrs Inder an.i Francis objected to the claims being granted unless they received compensation for damages to fences This the appiemts refused to pay The applicants urged upon the Court thtit Messrs Inder and Frinc.is had no legal right to occupy and fence Crown Lands, even with the consult of the Pastoral lessees (the Mount 11 Pastoril Investment as they could give no right to any one under the terms of (heir leases arid crop land, it bring witbin a gold field, and consequently miners, had a right to go up:m it legally to search f.ir gold, without t he c >ns»nt of Messrs In 'er and r rands The Warden refused the application on the ground that Messrß lnder and Francis had a poßses-<o-y title, an I th it he could not go into the question as to whether it was-a good and. legal one or not. The applicants stated their intention to mark out and work ordinary claims, which did i)ot require the consent of the Warden,' and leave Messrs Inler asd Francis, to t&ejr Jega.l remedy to prove their rights. "'

At Clark, s diggings the supply of water has not .been so scarce for. twelve yeais, at. this early staye of the season-. '.The there, instead of. working continuous are duly able to"put.iii about eight hours pec.day. ..Tie.only portion of the County at fhe ; present 'tiine. H(4t affect through a-' .scarcity of water is-St.' Hathaus and ''am- .?]\ an ' «'hica are supplied from t ese never tailing sourtSesVtbe Manuherikia river and ; thte Dunstan Creek. • Air the'b-iii^nfth'jiVph'^y-'rhp' Wit 'bninnh-t-ocerebrnte'theinHtallufi .n of "Alderman M«.earthur, he»d\of kh« ..ftYii, a* T,,ord- Alavor.of London,- Mr M'ili!lau,,nephew of thejat.ter, in respo .dins', sjiid that Mr Maeirthiir was '■• lie fiia! Irishman ,wbo had been elected fcoid Mayor of London . ! At a meeting of ihtreleo'ora of the Mataura •! district, held in North Invercurgill last .week a mo'iou to the. effect—'* Thai Mr Shauks, j M- K. R , hasnot the confidence of hia cposti-":' fuents, %ud that Hiey'do not. desire'arivl txptaimtiou of his pas' action, but are desiroiw that he ihould resign his "seat at oa?e," : wis •! carried unanimously. A similar resolution ' was also unanimously carried at A' ( pleby. At the meeting of the Diocesan SJynod tne Rev.. Mr Hobbs' motion to abolish pew rents was not very favourably received by the. Rev. Mr Byng, who snid that he was opposed t" free and unappropriated seats. They could not do without the revenue obt-iined l>y- : w.iy of pew rents, tind he considered it expedient that they should bi> charged. If they wore 'o ' act upon principle in this matter then the fol. lowing should be «ppendatl to the motion—"and that bsziars and tea meetings, and all extraneous auxiliaries for furthering the cause o r Christ,, other than volunttry contributions, be abandoned.". If on prin • p'» they abolished 3eat they should, to be consistent—to speak practically—-given ptneir sneaking regard for bazaars, and their partiality for those greasy demonstrations of Christiani',y called tea meetings. If this were done he would support the motion, but not otherwise. The motion was lost.

Han LAN won the race with Trickett easily. Great interest was fcikeii in the race for ths championship The attendance of the public was enormous, crowds lining the banks of the river along the course. The betting at the start was greatly in favor of tfanlan, who was in splendid form. The two men .went off with a good start in smooth waterj. Hanlau commencing with twenty eight and Trickett with thirty-four strokes a minute. .They kept together for half a mile, pulling evenly, hut 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 Triokett defoated Sadler ' in 1877 h> did the distance in 23min 153ec\J