LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 26, Issue 1337, 10 August 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

_ The Maniototo Jockey Club, by advertisement in this issue, invites applications for the position of secretary. A majt at Port Chalmers was last week fined for neglecting to get his child vaccinated. ' ' . ' The lambing season began over a fortnight ago in the Tokomairiro and 'Southland districts. Mb. Antony Watson Oxley has been appointed a deputy of the registrar of marriages, births, and deaths for the district of Blacks. The Government intend to send a number of men to finish the road through Dausey's Pass as soon as the weather permits. It is costing Messrs R. Campbell and Sons £l5O a week to get food for their flocks at Benmore by rail and cart. A lecture given in Dunedin by the Rev. MrTait, of Melbourne, in aid of the Miners' Association has realised a net sum of £59 lis 6d. Mr M. Nolan in our advertising columns gives notice that person's' trespassing with dogs on run 225p, Blackstone, will be prosecuted.

.The opposition to gambling is gathering strength throughout the colonies. Queensland has lately passed an Act prohibiting consultations in that colony. - Although the chilled beef by the Gothic was a great success a few carcasses of chilled muttcn were a failure, as they were found to be spotted inside. . As will be seen by our advertising columns the local bakers, owing to the rise iu the price of flour, have raised the price of bread •to 7d per loaf. . - , The experiment of sending Home live sheep will be contined on u larger scale next voyage of the Buteshire, when she takes Home, on account of the owners, 1200 heavy crossbreds.

Last year New South Wales imported 3 - 2 - 2,31S bushels of New Zealand oats, Queenland 25,609 bushels, Victoria, 107,132 bushels, West Australia 109,404, and Britain 927,195 bushels. Fourteen and analf millons of rabl.itskins were exported iu the same period. A meeting of Crown tenants who have suffered through the recent, severe weaihei takes place at Caldwell's Hall, Wedderburii on Thursday, August 15, at 3 o'clock in

the afternoon, to consider the advisability of approaching Government for a remiss! u of the current year's rents. Farmers, as n rule, undoubtedly had as much as they com'. , do to make ends meet during the past year owing to the prolonged drought during tinspring and summer, and adding to this tin losses in stock, occasioned by the preaci'n winter, the position of many is not an envi able one, so that some such concession will be really necessary in many instances Meetings are bein? held in o'ln-r plnces f«t the purpose, and if farmers in this district intend to move in the matter they should take advantage of the above meeting to lay their position plainly before the Government. As the Minister for Lands has seen the need of a Fair Rent Bill, the object of which is to provide for emergencies liko thpresent, undoubtedly some concession wil be tnade where it can be shown to be needed ,

Bathans during the month of July, Li? 3 ' io T lnfall , was 2-51 Rain rell on 12 days, the greatest fall being *67 inches on the 2Sth. The mean temperature in the shade (recorded at 9.30 a.m.) was Sodeg., the highest reading heino- 43dee

The sheepowners of Vincent County are suffering so much damage from that they appealed to the council a meeting to compel owners to appears that though the registrar has rtsited the various districts in the county for the acrreed ad \u "e council unanimously work at utf u j? 0 ' 10 / undertake the work at Is per head for dogs they register. ! he „ Stat f S m Ame «ca are occupied with Bills to tax bachelors. The tax nropsed is to be m proportion to the income, the case of rich ones, as much as a-quarter bs ng demanded. The fate of these metres Hon A\ gerly watched by at least two sections of the community—the bachelors and the maidens. It may not be generally known that such a law was passed in W lham Third's reign. Bachelors over 25 ?io in' wldowe « !?,, an unmarried duke £l2 10s, a marqnis £lo^ Makt will "no donbfc remember the entertainment given by Mr W: H. Mathieson, of the American Carriage Factory, Invercareill, - C W " teS ,nfortnin g -as that he intends coming up again in October. His i . r i lecture of , a trip round the world and through the Chicago Exposition has taken wonderfully, he having made what may be fairly coiisidered>s a record, havinz lectured over one hundred times to crowded audiences. The success was so marked that be has just got out a complete set of new views, and expects by the next mail a panorama of the China and Japan War hayiug ordered the scenes to be specially painted for him. Be will also bring up with him a new sterepticion lantern, afac-similie by-the-wav of one supplied to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. He will also show the latest novelties in animated statuary, and scenes from the beautiful Lakes of Killarney in Ireland. The second evening, he will lecture on the principals of elocution—a study that is not taught in our schools—and as an incentive to children to learn will give a prize of a solid silver brooch and medal for the best recitation from girl or boy, open to all children attending school, schoolmasters will please take note, and work up those among their scholars who show a special talent that way. Mr Mathieson informs us that he will go no further north this time than Naseby, and he will be pleased to see any children from the surrounding districts competing. Further particulars will duly appear in our advertising columns.