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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 49, 7 January 1870, Page 3

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AucKLiND.—The following Is the latest telegraphic news: —Mr.°M'Lean has returned from Ohiueinuri. He had an interview with Te Hira; who said he was not favorable at present to the opening of Ohinemuri. He wished to look around hira.to ses the hV:t breaks Mr. M'Leau is sanguine, of success. A monster meeting was held to-day to consider the beach claims question. A petition to the Governor has been adopted, praying for protection by legislation —The Thames Committee on'the goldfields affairs lias reported on tha causes of the' depression which areas follows : —The land is locked up under lease; niisgoverument, and the "want of a proper tribunal; want of legislative "aid to th.e goldfields. The Committee propose to remedy these defects by appointing a Mining Bourd, a Conk of Mines, the temporary suspension of the leasing regulations, the immediate granting of all applications for leases, and the completion of the survey, and the appointment of additional wardens to determine objections.—Messrs. Maekay and Grove will be returned for the Thames. —The GS-oldcn Crown Company ; have given £2OO to the widow of Batter. —An actor named Masters has been stabbed. —Another goldfield has been found on the Coromandel Peninsula.— j.Crushings !>y the Boyal Standard of 7 tons, yielded 31 ounces; Golden Crown, 230 ounces; Shotover, 150 lbs. specimens. —Mr. Montgomery goes to the Thames. Mr. Talbot is unsuccessful in Auckland.

The. following bit of information will be of interest the world over:—At a distance of less than three days' voyage from Valparaiso, in Chili, 2nd nearly in the same latitude Avith this important port on the western coast of South America, is the island of Juan Fernandez, where, once upon a time, Alexander Selkirk, during a solitary banishment of four years, gathered the material for Deibe'd " iiobinscn Crusoe." This island, little thought of by the inhabitants of the 'Chilian coastland, has lately become of some interest by the fact that "in December, 1863, it wasceded to a society of Germans, under the guidance of JRohert. Wehrham, an engineer from -Saxony, Idler many, for the purpose of colonisation. The entrspreneur of this expedition, liobert \y"ehrham, left Germany eleven years since, passed several years in England, served as Major through the war of the lte.pu.blic against secession, and w q: subsequently engaged as engineer with the Ceropasco Kail in South A.inericr, He "and his society, about 60 or ZQ individuals, have taken possession of tie island, which is described as being a most fertile and lovely spot Th<y found there countless herds of goats; some 30 half wild horses, and 60 donkeys, the latter animals proving to be exceeding shy. They brought with them cows and other cattle, swino, numerous fowls, and all the various kinds of agricultural implements,, with boats and fishing apparatus to engage indifferent pursuits and occupations. The grotto, made iUinsu3 as Bobinsou's abode, situated in a spacious valley, covered with liirge fields of wild turnips —a desirable food for swine—has been assigned to the hopeful Chilian gentleman, to whom the care of the porcine part of the society's stock has been entrusted, and he and his proteges are doing very well in their new quarters. Juan Fernandez is one of the stations where whaling vessels take in water and wood.