MOUNT IDA.-Chronicle
Tho crops a* the F.weburn look well. GicunaiidCo.Wun!, which waa cubmittHl t > auction, was p&smd in at. £300 a R.iner named Tho huh Grc-e , luil his aim broken by « f i'l of wartli in h s c aim on thu 6..h. The g*le • n tho 15'h diJ cvin>iderab v dimijje to tlvi oat o-ojiß in tliWc istiic, tiUttVieifltfOtsw. u'd havebten much m:«re twrtoi'B rwd tUe ■irais he«n rlfur
A hu((t:y was <»p iz -d ou the 13 h and its occupint 1 * (Meisis Evuw, of Oimara, am M j ioh6rt, of Mv-.t.b) were tevurirly snaken, but i>u>Mnel no serious inju'V. The Kssoby P.psb\terian rong<-fg--.tion rr»o»ted i(r W. H. Ash widi «. ham o-iiom us h token • f esteem and a mailr < f apprt-cintion of the nrvices he lits rourj«red ihe church for the past, ttnea yesn boih as instrumentalist and vi cilist.
A m;mb-r of ihe riepu.a'ion wh eh waited upon th° Hod. Air Kollißlou in reference to Iho im|)"un(iinguf the settlors' ca'tlo, stated thut one young cow belo git'g to him had b'.-en impounded thirteen or fou'teeu times.
Mr Shannon, a member of tho deputation on the gnziog rights, s »t«d in answer to Mr Ko'lenton, th»t of ihe 130 ownera of caitle which htd besn impounded, four or five perao/OH only held a large number—peih'ipß fifty each and the balniice was districted in numhe» varying from two to tea amvUg.it the residents. He Rolle9tOD, while h»re, was Bhown ovnr a portioa of tho agricultural country. Before lotwing, he promised iliat land should bo thrown ope« at once, aud that tins fact (f tha voto for the pnruose being exhausted would not ba a'lowed to interfere. Tfce surveyors would be set to work almost immediataly. A member of the deputation to Mr Rolleakn corapiainedof the valuation rfiunholders' fences on land open for settlement, Buying that a fence of tho same deßcription had boen cff--rad t" oee ( f the members for half the Government price, but wss refused, it being of no use for cattle. Mr Rolleston said the Government had to pay valuation far them, and he presumed whit wai charged was the value of the fences to the lunholders. The only other way to be done would be to have the value fix?d by arbitrators.
MOUNT IDA.-Chronicle
Otago Witness, Issue 1476, 28 February 1880, Page 11
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