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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 646, 16 February 1882, Page 3

The Borough Council have resolved to take prompt actioD, by telegraphing to thp. Gtavernrnent, in reference to the proposed leasing of all the i lands in the v'cinity of .Naaeby. Other centres should bestir themselves. The •Wellington Post,' in view of the one-sided character of the matches so far played by the English cricketers, threw out the suggestion that playing twenty two local ameteurs sgainst eleven >.nglisli professionals, two elevens should be formed, each containing six of the twelve English] men forming the team, and five of the best local players who could be picked. The idea has been received with a good deal of favor amongst the local " knights of the willow." Queensland is b!es?ed with a model judge. During a trial the other day a jury failed to agree as quick'y as he desired, and he ordered them to be locked up for sixteen hours without food or drink, whilst he drove away to his snug country villa and retained next morning.-. The sheriff was a few minutes late, and the. after giving him a severe lecture,-told bim if it occurred again he would be instantly dismissed. A barrister was reading iu a newsp iper a report of the previous day's tfal, when he was sternly informed that no newspapers were allowed in that honorable Court. An unfortunate witness smiied, and was threatened with instant committal for contempt of Court.

Db Tai/mage on praying for Guiteau.— The Rev. Dr Talm-ige, in an address in the Tabernacle, described a visit be paid to the White House lust spring, when he saw President.. Garfield 'At times,' he said, 'lam aljnostj;sickened, body and. mind and soul, that a ; m an of such splendid physique should be lacerated first by the buiJett, then necessarily at the demand of surgical skill, till nothing but the call of the Archangel can mend that robust frame; that a man all right should be put out of the world by a man all wrong—(applause)—that a brave woman should be made a widow ; that an old mother should lose ber favorite son, and the nation orphaned because a brainless fool could not get a foreign consulship. On the principle that all men, however bad, ought to be prayed for, 1 have tried for eight Sundays to get myself up to pray for that wretch, but 1 c n't do it. (Applause.) Perhaps before the day of his hanging I may grow in grace eriough to pray for him, but until then I. must leave it to the old ministers who have got so good that they can do anything."

The remains of Mr R. 0. Brown, formerly of (Jambrian, and late Borough Inspector for the M unicipality of Roslyn, were consigned to their last resting p'-ace in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin, on' Wednesday last in the presence of a large gathering of fiiend* and mourners from, various parts of the Province Amongst those asseml.led to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of 'the.'defeased were:—Mr Bridgman (viayorof v'aversham), several Members of thesCorporation of Rosl.vn, a number of the hoslyn r Volunteer Fire Brigade—of which the dt-ceased -was a member—aud the following gentlemen connectfd more or less with.the Counties o 4 Vincent and M.miototo :—Messrs B. Wasner, William Py]e, cetffc, Archibald Brown, G. ri. Smith, Geo. Dopglis, K. Bucknell, Sergeant MTvor, M: Al''is"6n, 'J bos. Go'-e, James Duff. James Samson, Wm. L;,ons. J Springer, Mr" M'Geaehen, and ;V(r George CUett. The shortness of the notice, no dou ; t, prevented many friends of the deceased from Cambrian and-st. -ha'hans, bi ig preseu;,. The interment look place in the Church of land portion of the Cemetery, and the service was conducted by the kev. R. A. Kerkbam. The coffin, which' was surmounted with the fire b igade helmet of the deca-ed, and a wreath of immortals, the following inscription:—" Robert G.orge iiiown, died February sth ;