LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 26, Issue 1369, 17 January 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The 'Frisco mail closes at Naseby o Monday, the 20th inst., at 10.36 p.m.

A miner in the Hamilton district inform: us that he is at present working and making wages on ground which to his certain know ledge has been worked live times before.

The Highbnnk Estate of 9000 a. in the Rikaia district, Canterbury, h s been purchased by Government uud-jr the Land for Settlements Act.

Bannockjhjkn bridge which was old but had recently been repaired in the hope that it would do another three or four years was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. O.v the 11th inst, Messrs Alex. Smith and F. R Smith were nominated as councillors for the South Ward of the Borough of Naseby. A poll will accordingly take place on Monday, the "20th inst.

The Eweburn picnic will not take place on the 23rd inst., as announced by us in our last issue, it having been postponed until ihe 30th, so that it will not now clash with the Bachelo s' l'itnic, which takes place on the former date. The Muruin a:o picnic takes p'licc on the 24th. NoxwiTlisTANßiNO the continual booming of the West Australian gildfielda over the tables, last year's gold yield gives the quantity rnNed in Victoria as three times that raised in West Australia! Victoria ha* a number of quartz mines whose yield is nearly as regular as tlib rise of the tide.

At the meeting of the Naseby School Committee held on Friday, lOih inst., there, were present Messrs (Ji Ifie chairman l . Church, Lundnu, Milclioll, and Gordon. It was decided that the secretary should writo to the board asking that it should defray the, cost of top-dics-iug the asphalt and of repairing chimneys an', base.beard. Mr Malcolm was authorised to purchase 50 good attendance certilicatos anil to have them framed. The. committee meet again- on Friday evening to nominate candidates fcr election to the Kducittioti 3eard.

The volunteers went, into camp on Monday night and have been chilling diligeucly morning audeVeniug' under the direction of Castle, whose instruction is g'ieatly appreciated by the volunteers. Last evening Lieut.-Col. " Webb arrived for the annual inspection. "In the course of th<evening he presented the certificates to the ambulance class

By a lamentable boating accident in Kaipara Harbour no less than 10 persons were drowned, seven of whom were women. The boat was capsized by a sudden gust of wind, and Edwards, the only member of the party who could swim, succeeded in pulling them all on to the bottom of the boat, but they were all washed off again. He then I swam ashore, a distance.of two miles, with a little boy on his back, but on the way the little fellow succumbed, aud Edwards is therefore the only survivor. His bravery has been greatly commended. Several of those drowned belong to Auckland, one, Beston Warwick, to the Oamaru district, and the rest to Kaipara. It is our painful duty to record the decease of a lady who has be=.n resident in the Blackstone district for 28 years. We allude to Mrs Inder, wife of Air Samuel Inder, Blackstone Hill. The deceased lady had been ill for some considerable time so that her death was not unexpected. Mrs Inder was held in very high esteem by the community and was well known for her kindly, benevolent disposition. The funeral took place at Blackstone Hill on Sunday last and was attended by large concourse of people from all parts of the county, who thus sought to pay homage to the" deceased's memory.

In September the Maniototo Council agreed in response to a largely signed requisition to ask Government to extend the telephone system from Cambrian to White Horse. About the middle of November a bond was entered into betv een the Government and the council for the performance of the work. The council agreed to pay the Government a subsidy of £l3 10s for five years, towards which the residents of the neighbourhood have contributed in all £2O. As these arrangements are so long completed, and there was still no word of a start being made with the work, the chairman of the County Council yesterday teleirraphed to the head of the department at Wellington, and received the following reply : John Forrester, Esq., County Chairman, Naseby, Operations Becks line will be commenced not later than Ist of April. Seeing that the summer season will be quite past then, and that ths cost of carriage will he almost double what it would be now, that the bond was signed in November, and that moreover the line will not be opened until about midwinter so that the summer revenue will be lost, this delay and waste are incomprehensible.