Mt. Ida Chronicle NASEBY, FRIDAY. DEC 13th, 1907.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 37, Issue 9614, 13 December 1907, Page 2

Mt. Ida Chronicle NASEBY, FRIDAY. DEC 13th, 1907.

The sale of work aud entertainment of the Anglican Church Ladies' Guild last week realised £47 odd,

The dates of the sittings of the Dis trict Court at Naseby for 1908 are gazetted as 25th of March and 23rd of ."September. J. Brow n and Son are now making a large display of Xmas novelties Presents suitable lor young and old. Call and inspect. No one asked to buy. Messrs E. L Maeassey and Co. offered the Victoria Hotel, Naseby. for sale by auction at Dunedin yesterday, when it was withdrawn at £9OO. Once more is the festive season of Christmas close upon us, heralded by the annual school entertainment that is so looked forward to by young and old alike. This year Naseby is called upon for a special effort, one to eclipse all previous attempts at packing ihe Town Hall, A beautiful new organ, costing twt-n'y pounds, has been bought for tb.i> school and the scholars and teachers want to raise the funds by their own efforts. To do this the hall must be literally crammed. The children are making a magnificent effort to get their parts ready, and though the programme drawn up for them might well tax thepowersof the biggest school in the Dominion, the hundred odd Naseby boys and girls arc detemined to show what they can do. In the first pirt of the entertainment the burrlen wili fall npoo the juve nile darkies who will, with their jsongs, dances and conundrums, provide the comic element. The se ond part wi 1 consist of concert items—olos, quartettes and action songs by children and adults,' an.l here again a good proportion of the items will be humorous. The last part will be an operetta called "Soot and the Fairies" by an Australian Composer who has in this operetta produced something musical, bright, happy and- laughable. As such a big programme is being submitted, the prizes will be distributed on another occasion After some of the Naseby concerts people have been heard to remark that they would have been at the concert |had jtht>y known the date. Well, the date is the 20th, next Friday, and those wanting a seat are advised to be at the Town Hall by 7.30. The baud wdl render a sacred programme in the Recreation Ground on Sunday evening, commencing at about 8.30, weather permitting. Light showers of rain commenced on Tuesday night and fell at intervals till Thursday morning, but during Wednesday night it rained very heavily. The rain came in time for the farmers, as crops have been going back lately aud fears were beginning to be entertained of another bad season. A heavy shower fell on Thursday afternoon. Owing to the dry weather Mr Murray on Tuesday commenced cleaning the upper Government race, which was not cleaned in the springThe secretary of the Mfc Ida Miners Association has recived a reply from the Mines Department to the request for the immediate widening of the Government race from Hills Creek upwards, to the effect bhat the question of increased water supply is under the consideration of the Department. Maniototo A. and P. Association's Show.—Mr R Carr has donated special prizes of £1 Is aud 10s for two best year ling colts by Dr Hornbrook. An old man named Harry Jenkins was found dead in his hut at Spec Gully on Tuesday morning He was seen alive the previous evening. Deceased was in his eighty fourth year, and death was due to ohl age. His remains were buried yesterday. Mk J. R- Smith was the only candidate uominated on Tuesday for election to the Borough Council, in place of Cr Reed (resigned). The sale of privileges in connection with the show takes place ou the 21st inst.— See advt. Mb Thomas Hickey, of Hyde, holds a clearing sale of his stock, &c, on the 17th inst., having disposed of his tarm. Miss L. Forgie and MrS. Baxter, jun., were married on Monday, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. Mr Evans. Mr Bligh's lecture to men and boys last Sunday night, on the Perils of Impurity, was well attended. On the 30th of December the results of practical examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music were published. Among those successful in the Lower Division was Miss Mary Clare Dillon, Kyeburn Dig gings. She left the Kyeburn Diggings school to attend the Otago Girls' High School and has been a pupil of Mr W, E. Tayloi, F.R.G.0., for about two years. Mr Taylor did not consider it necessary that she should sit for the Primary or Elementary divisions and entered her for the Third or Lower Dirißnn Before leaving for Dunedin she was a pupil of Miss Field's for about a year.. TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIES. THE FAMOUS SANDER AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT was proved by experts at the Supreme Court of Victoria to possess curative properties peculiarly its own. and to lie absolutely safe, effective and reliable. 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