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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 613, 30 June 1881, Page 2

• The annual local Masonic soiree takes place on Friday, July Bth. Messrs Inder and George hold an important sale at St Bathans on Wednesday next. July 9th. • ■■ j,.': .. Mining is still being briskly prosecuted. ; There has not been frost sufficient ,to stop the supply of water. ' Farmers are busy at' work in their fields! Ploughing is quite possible, the frosts, so' far, not having been severe. Tiie is; still remarkably open. There has been as yet', no ice for curling or skating. The season/is even finer tlian last. A LETTER sigAed " No, Churchman" will appear iu next . issue. We have, again to remind correspondents . that to ensure the insertion of their letters in Thursday's issue they should be in our hands before Thursday morning. At the usual half-yearly meeting of the Loyal Mount Ida Lodge, 1.0.0. F., the following officers were elected:—N.G., Bro., Win. Aschoff; V.G-., Bro Jas Hooper ; ■Secretary, Bro. W. H. Ash (re-elected) ; Treasurer, Bro. W. Jacob (re-electedi. Bro. 'Jas. Mitchell takes the chair of Past Grand. We understand that at the last sitting of the Warden's Court, at St' Bathans, "the Warden mentioned that since he had had Blacks added to his district it had become difficult for bim to keep up the fortnightly Court at St Bathans with the same regularity as heretofore. He expected to have to ;>rrange for the Court to he held at rathur longer intervals, but the days would be always advertised.

The ordinary meeting of the Naseby Borough Council was held on Thursday, June 23rd. Present—his Worship the Mayor, Cre Newman, Webber, and Bottiug. The business transacted was unimportant. Accounts amounting to £47 3s 6d were passedfor payment. Breeders of racehorses should "note that the entries for the Croriiwell Derby close on the 4th instant. The Derby is for youngsters bred in Vincent, Lake, and 'Maniototo Comities, and as there are several thoroughbred entires in each the entries should be numerous, and^liestakes, therefore, considerable. , '•,

A.meeting of a number of gentlemen representing the various interests of the district took place on Wednesday afternoon last in the ante-room of the Town Hall, Naseby, to devise some means to show their confidence in Mr Robinson, the Warden and Resident : Magistrate of the district. A petition to the" Minister of Justice was drawn up, adopted, and circulated for signature throughout' the district. This course was deemed the most advisable in view of the steps taken by some persons, who are striving, in an,underhand and surreptitious manner, to'obtain* signatureMtS a' petition, praying for his removal. A copy of the petition adopted by the meeting will appear in Saturday's issue; ~ Work at Bowden and Company's quartz claim, Bough Ridge, is still progressing, l Our last report was to tho effect that a depth of 14 feet had been sunk, and the reef was found to be 6 inches wide, and calculated to go 4,t0 5 ounces ,to the ton. About tho mil idle of June the claim was visited by Mr Webber, on behalf of the Naseby sharehold'ers. The shaft was then 26 feet deep, and the reef had widened , to 12 inches the appearances being as gratifying as ever. Water' had begun to make very fast, however, and was much impeding the work. As the facilities for driving a tunnel were good, it be.'.ng estimated that a drive/,200 feet in lengtn would tap the reef at, a depth of 70 feet from the surface—it was decided to comme/ice : a tunnel at once. On, the 25th the mew wt<re in 80 feet, and it was expected that by the end of July it will be possible to resume ta kin ?. out stone. This will be a much easier u than it has hitherto been, and it w.ill be possible to open out a mine, if the yiold justifies this being done. Before operations in the shaft were stopped, about ten to.ns of stone were brought "to grass." A correspondent at Hamilton, writes " The Irish Cor,apan y are just about finished with their tunnel. It'wasoriginally 1000 yards long, most of it through rook. After sluicing for a wh/le tihey found that they were not deep enough, and they then stopped sluicing, and commence,'! deepening it, at the same time extending it a- length of twenty feet, in rock. ; They are- now about torecommence sluicing The Cornish Company is at present divided. One'party, is sluicing in'a good face, and anoilier party is lifting dirt from below the level of the race,, On one occasion dirt was lifted jn'-thw claim, a height of sixteen feet| and it ! pai'd well. One naturally thinks, how would th'is dirt have paid could it have been' sluiced in the ordinary way ? In the hill close to tho townsh ip there are several tunnels. lam informed that tunneling was going on here botoo sixteen years ago, before sluicing commenced, and that several >' of these old tunnels have been come across ; in > recent years. A very peculiar thing has been observed in some of them. Footmarks were noticed in damp , places, and on examination it is' found that" the sand or gravel in which they were made has become cemented or petrified. " The parties now working in the hill are M'Alpine and Carr, and Taylor and mate. The former have been working for some time. They have gone in a distance of 700 feet, and they have very good air. The ground stands splendidly and needs no timbering. M'Alpine andCarr are at present taking out stuff with barrows, but I believe they propose to lay down a tramway and obtain a truck. They have done very well I believe, I saw a nice prospect washed; but I understand it was nothing like what they, have had. I was shown one part of the drive where the wash yielded a pennyweight to, the dish. The wash varies in "aepth.from six inches to five feet."

DaSkae, Inspector of Lunatic Asylums, is dead. -

A fublio meet of tbe, Four-in-hand Club took place in London lately, at, which the Prince of Wales drove, one drag. Mrs Langtry occupied a Beat in the drag with Sir W. Meysey Thomson. . , ' According to the ' Oamaru Mail,' a good authority on the subject estimates that the value of land all over the Colony will be increased by at least £1 an acre by the operations of the proposed refrigerating companies.

John Bright recently spoke in favor of the wholesale immigration of the ; Irish to the United States. • He thinks if a free passage were offered, probably all, or certainly half the population would find its way to America and to deliverance from poverty and suffering-

Mr Almao informs the Dunedin ' Herald ' that ; he ■ has already exported 9000 rabbit skins to America, and he has 80,001) on hand for export. The manager of a large hat manufactory doing business in London and New York has forwarded several thousand pounds to Mr - Almao for the purpose of buying rabbit skins in Dunedin. A whiter in a Melbourne contemporary says Up at Muddleditch the police sergeant acts as clerk of Petty Sessions. The other day he asked in Court for an Almanac, in order to find out what day of tho week and month " this day week " would be. On being asked whether a reuiand for eight days would be a.remand to that day week, he thus oracularly delivered himself — "Eight days is eight days with "civilians, but in the eye of the Law seven diys is eight days ; so a remand for eight days is always filled up. with nine days ! This settled tho question. , ' '

The latest expedient for ridding a house of rat< is furnished by a writer in the Scientific American, who says:—" We clear our premises of these detestable vermin by making whitewash yellow with copperas, sulphate of iron, or green vitriol, and covering the stones and rafters in the cellar with a thick coat of it.. *«ln,.,ftV<3ry . crevxco where a rat might tread we put the" crystals of' the copperas and scatter the same in the corners of the floor. The result was a perfect stampede of rats and mice. Since that time not a squeak of either rat 3 or mice has been heard about the house. Every spring a coat of the same yellow-wash is given to the cellar as a purifier, as well as a rat extermiuator, and no typhoid, dysentery, or fever attacks the family."

Now that steps are being taken towards tho eradication o£ the rabbit nuisance wo give the following recipe for poisoned grain from the ' Timaru Herald'; Ingredients—loolb wheat, lib phosphorus, loz oil rhodium, 9 gallons water. Preparations—Put wheat into, water and heat until soft. Dissolve phosphorous in vessel by pouring water on it. Add wheat aud stir vigorously till phosphorous is thoroughly mixed with it. Put whole on the fire, taking oIT just at boiling Eoinfc. .Cover securely, and let it stand i ours. The requisite quantity of rhodium may be added, cover securely and well mix ; stand 12 hours more. To lay poison—Fill tin can with mixture, lay in small heaps, about a desert spoonful at a time, over infested land, selecting barest spots. Rabbits will not poison readily for two or three days.

Tub amount of money already expended in the formation of the Central Line from Wingatui to Duep Stream, a distance 1 of 20 miles,is 000. Cabinet,rumors are tp the effect that" Rlr Gladstone retires to tlje House of Lordflat; the end of the session with the titlo of. Earl of Oxford, He would, prefer Ul9 I'arJdon) of Liverpool, had not a predscessor in the Premiership borne it. Mr become Chancellor, The Duke of Manchester, in a published letter, explains that the cause of hiß inability to visit the South of Now Zealand ami other places,, a? intended, was because of having received "such unfavorable accounts of the non-payment of my rents for farms at Home that I must hurry back to Encland," * The following notice, which shows that a. gentleman well known in this distiict is pa lively as ever, appears in tho ' Alcuroa Mail'A grand entertainment in aid of the funds of the German Bay (Side) Sohool will be held iu the Side Sohool about the middle of July, to be followed by a danceFurther particulars in future announcements, Thomas H, Gil ssi Hon See; After a lengthy hearing at Napier on Tuesday, the jury gave £lOOl damagesagainst the Bank of New South wales for dishonoring a cheque drawn by Mr Evans now of Canterbury, but at the time a storekeeper in Poverty Bay. Mr Evans had received notice to pay up an overdraft and to give no further cheques, but this cheque was given before the notice was sent, and the manager knew it was current. ' The retreat of the brigands who captured Suter, the Englishman, and demanded a ransom for him, was cut off on the land side by Turkish troops, and by sea by gun-boats. The Turkish gun-boat recently ohased a barque which was balieved to have been manned by the brigands, and, having vainly summoned them several times to stop, sank her. It is feard that Suter was on board the barque. The Scotoh are proverbially a thrifty race, A short time ago the traveller of a well-known wholesale house, in London, called on a Glasgow trader for the usual annual account, With much apology this gentleman professed his Inability to pay, but offered a bill at throb m onths instead of ready cash. After some demur this was accepted and the necessary document drawn up and settled. Said the debtor, "Noo, my laddie, that finishod, I'll discount for yt>. weel," and the bill was discounted. Mr' Henry Driver has purchased the-Horse-shoe' Bush Estate, Clarendon, from Mr Joseph Clark, of Victoria. The estate; consists of 2000 aores, and wo hear the price l was £lO per aero. We learn that 'since tho property came into Mr^C)ark's possession, about £17,000 has been expended for improvements on' it. Consequently, we consider that Mr Driver has made an excellent bargain. The sale of stock and implements; on the estate took place yesterday;, and! fetched exceptionally high prices —' Star,'

; The teacher of the St Leonards School;, Mr Fraser,. has commenced an action for libel against the Chairman of the local » School Committee for un alleged libel published in tho ' Evening Star.' Tho plaintiff's declaration, by way of inucndo,. suggests that the defendant allegod that tho plaintiff was incompetent to fill his position, and that the resideuts wished him removed. To the defendant's ploastothiadoelarationtho . plaintiff demurred, and tho case was argued in banco on Wednesday, Judginout was.reserved.

A memorial signed by 23,997 ]»y mombers of tlie Churoli of England, including four dukes, twenty other peers, tcni noble* men, tweuty-six membors of Parliament, twenty two baronets, 172 officers (array and navy), and 101 justices of the peace, was • forwarded to the Archbishop of Canterbury • recently, emphatically protesting against tlio > •' tolerating within the Church of England of any doctrines or practices which favor therestoration of the Romish mass, or any colorable imitation thereof, any ro-introduc-tion of the Confessional, or any assumption of sacerdotal pretensirns on the part of the clergy in the ministrations of tlio Word anil Sacraments."

Re tho unemployed at Timaru, tho Mayor of that town hay been informed that, " Instructions have been sent to provido pannages by rail to Lytt.cton and theneo bv noa to Auckland, to twenty of tlio Timnru unemployed, on tho understanding tliat ' liey g-> north on their own responsibility, and if t■ to result is satisfactory, passages will bo givon for 20 more. This ia to bo limited to pursons in real want who have reason to behove they can got work at Auckland Rations are also to bo suppliod by tlic local relieving officer to such of tlio.se that remain as aro in actual want, and unable to obtain any work."

It seems that tho bailiffs in Duiiedin and the other towns of New Zealand have been in the habit of returning summonses not served, without making diligent search for the parties "wauled." Attention was called to two instances of tho kind, and Mr Simpson intimated his intention of making the officers in question pay tho costs incurred by tho plaintiff in each case as tho only way of bringing them "up to the scratch' in their work. Subsequently it was mentioned that a summons had be tin lost out of tho office, and his Worship promised to investigate tho matter with a view of seeing if it was due to the oarelessnoss of any of the Court officials. ' Star." The 'Post' has the following i—"The ' Saturday Advertiser' has been purchased by theDunedin 'Morning Herald' Company and from about a month hence will appear as the weekly of that paper. A large quantity of type is now being brought over from Melbourne, tho intention of the new proprietary being to bring it out in a greatly enlarged form, giving not only more reading niattei _in the shape of current news, but extending the present special features of the paper. < The value of the ' Saturday Advertiser's ' advertisements now aggregates £2,000 per year, and as the ' Herald' Company have secured the paper for a little under £I,OOO their share of the trnnsaution is more satisfactory than that of tbe pro prietors of the ' Advertiser.'

The following faots lmve oome out in a parliamentary paper just laid boforo tlm Vi -to. mn Assembly. Mr Superintendent Harp, it will be remembowl, was wounded in the wrist in the .affair with tho Kelly gang at Grlonppwun, 'JJliat ii)juro r i wrist has boon 11 p'rfflpt godsend to at least three medical men. Dr Ryan got £63 for going to BenuUu to look at that wrist, and £252 for twenty four-visits to that wrist at Sanbury. At. iiiohinond it was necrmivf to pay 150 visits of • inspection by the siune g< ntiemnn,at a coit, of £157 ICK luat, dot ter evidently thought ho had dono well enough out of Ihe affair, on'] npparoutly retires from tho sosiio, for Dr Uibzgerald now puts in a bill for £lO7 2a Gd~nmrk tho scrupulosity evinced against overohnrcinir bv inserUn-,' that lialf-orown for prolVsaiowi'l attendance re tho wrist. i£vi lently Dr liy..u anil JJr litZ!»omld ware not cqH.nl to the sitU'U ion in res pot to I li.tt wrist, mid a Dr lonl comes in with a bill of £2B 7*. This latter is so paltry a fluuiv, thai, it must oilier be a retainer or n. " refresher " toniihiiig that wns'. Die balance of i,h« bill, whieh foo s up to.a grand total ot is made »pol miscellaneous eliarpea, The ' tfonalla Standard ' heartlessly remarks t,>;n,t had a constable been shot in (he Wl .j ht wou ] ( j have been handed ovor to tho police surcoon and the cost would have been loss than a sixtieth of the abovo bill,

The Marquis of Lome proposes to resign, the Governor-generalship of Canada. , According to the 'Mail," rabbits are actually burrowing the main roads and the Side-walks of the streets of Roxburgh. The cost of the Government printing office in Wellington is £"30,000 a-year. 'Hansard' absorbs £2,500; salaries and wages, £14,252; and stores £13,000. The receipts from various sources amount to £2,024. The Tuapeka County Council has resolved to communicate with Messrs Brown and Bastings, M.H R.s, asking them to have the law altered, or take such steps as may, be d.eemed. requisite, in order that miner's rights may be'issued direct from the County offices, and that the Council may collect the revenue. ' The sale of Chinese women is by no means uncommen in Sydney. The ' News' states that "the price of a Chinese women delivered in Sydney is, £38.; but two Chinese women only cost £52. Therefore the heathen Chinese import their women in couples. The importer never sees his women before they arrive, and then he .generally selects the best looking one. The other is shown round to. a number of- well-to-do Chinese, and after. they-have inspected her, she is-submit-ted .to what may be called' public auction.' At a recent rale a girl of nineteen years was, after .some spirited bidding, sbld for £120.'? .Mb Proude's indiscretion in ■ publishing Thomas Carlyle's reminiscences has stopped: subscriptions for the Carlyle Memorial. The ' Westminister-. Review' suggests that the manuscript of the first volume of his " French Revolution " was not accidentally burned as alleged, but was deliberately destroyed through jealousy on the part of John Stuart Mill or the lady who afterwards became his wife. The ' Quarterly Beview' corita : ns a slashing attack on Carlyle, believed to be from the pen of Edward Hayward. 'i he writer condemns those who seek to raise busts to men of genius whose works are in open defiance of good sense, good feeling, and good taste.

. The following ought to put a atop to the absurd yams that are being so' eagerly swallowed by Australians about machinery in Hanlan'p boat" To disabuse the public mind (say a Sydney paper) of the idea that Hanlan's boat is fixed up with a secret motor, and to give the Canadian all the; merit he deserves for having so easily defeated the Australian scullers, it is but fair to state that Hanlan, upon hearing of a rumor of a similar nature in England, allowed the boat in which he had rowed against Trickett to be submitted to public inspection "-for some days. It may be added that neither . Trickett nor Laycock gives any credence'' to this will chimera."

This is how an accomplished society reporter, on a Dakotah Territory paper,. gave "-hia readers an idea of "a social," with' his description of the costumes worn by the ladies of the party. "Mary Monroe,'red frock, white sack, and hair bunched ; Emma * Latrobe, yellow-dress and high-heeled slippers ; Marion Willoughby, some kind of thin stuff, white, and tied up with blue tape and hair frizzled ; Jennie Murchisori; black clothesj and a feather in her hair; Ella Wexford, red hair, and grey suit, flat in. ... front and stuck out behind ; Pauline Tresly, bitger'n a tub, and dressed to the top branch, she had on a velvet outht a mile long, and. •>' sixteen rows of teeth on her gloves*, her ' hair was a dead yellow, and tied, up like a •> bun, and had a lot of vegetables in it; Florence Koss, green dresa, flipped with velvet, i and'hoisted up at the , side with a -white check rein. Vinnie Hammersly, white net- ,. work with red streaks, walked with a limp, ■and hair frescoed."

The ' Post' tells the following good story an connection with Mr Murray's notice to • introduce his pet chicken, the Drainage Bill, . about which lor years past he appears to -have had a kind of craze "It is said that ago, when the drainage question was i sagi.tatating the mine's of leading men at lame, Mr Murray wrote to Sir RoberfPeel '■offering some suggestions on the subject. Sir' Robert, courteous gentleman that he was, " rrepßed tb-rmfcing Mr Murray for his valuable ' and intimating that they would sin due course be laid before the President of Tthe Board of Tirade or some other high funi'itionary. Ever s:ince then the recipient of ithe document bearing the autograph of the feminent statesman has kept that letter to Ibis heart", and. would not part -with it (the document, not his heart) for gold. Ever since then, too, has he had a drainage mania, and notwithstanding ■ 'the.fact that his little bill is annually consigned to the comparative oblivion of the .. grocery establishment and the kitchen, it ias year by year arisen from its ashes like the Phoenix of antiquity, and is once more to • ,'he exhibited'befoFe the eyes of the assembled wisdom and might of the people of the colony. May Its end be peace, for it will doubtless once more be mingled with the • ashes of the ' grate.'""

. Ik the House of' Common- there is a constitutional usage according to which on ; : ihe of each session of Parliament .ithe House, before it proceeds to consider; an Address in Reply to the speech from the ■Crown, deals with the first stage of .Bill proposed by a member. Trifling as. the '.usage may now seem, it was at one time significant enough as an asserton of the independence of the House of Commons. Our House of Representatives, which toddles with unequal footsteps after its great proto■type, has adopted this custom for many years back. Bills thus introduced have invariably ibeen of the most formal kind. No ' one has

-.paid heed to them, and we doubt whether in •any instances the mover took the trouble of further proceeding with them. Mr Hall, this year, has thought fit to make an exception '-in respect of the mere formality of such si, Bill, and we understand that in taking this usual course he tried to perpetrate a piece of humor. His wit, like his other mental -faculties, is strictly official, margined, docketed, and tied up with red tape. The Bill in question was entitled "An Act to Provide for ithe Administration of Local

.Affairs within the Chatham Islands." At there is considerable public interest in the question of Local Government. Mr Hall, therefore, thought by making a perceptible pause between the words " local 1 affairs " and the words "within the Chatham Islands" he would, to use a theatrical phrase, bring the House down. The. joke, if it can be cailed a joke, was sorry enough ; and, in spite of some imaginative,correspondent of a contemporary, who, evidently forewarned of what was coming, wrote, probably beforehand, that it was received with " roars : laughter," we are told that it fell quite .flat and amidst general silence.——' L'yttelton Times.'' ~ 5. '