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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 133, 15 September 1871, Page 5

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(From our own Correspondent.) DUNEDIX. Dunedin, 4.43 p.m. In the General Assembly the Provincial Treasurer has made the Financial Statement. The General Government sent summaries to the * Times ' and ' Star.' There has been on every item of revenue during the past year a deficiency of £L16,000 less than estimated, and £32,000 less than last year. Nothing startling in the speeches. Retrenchment is the order of the day, aad to that end Provincial institutions will b3 made much less costly. The Oiago Land Bill was read a first time. Macandrew's resolutions came on today. Reicheld's case was concluded at midnight on Tuesday, by the jury being discharged without giving a verdict. + ARRIVAL of the EXGLrSH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO. Auckland, Sept. 12. Via Tauranga, Sept. 13. The Nebraska arrived here at two a.m. on the 12th. She brings dates from San Francisco to the 18th August, from Honolulu to 26th August, and latest European telegrams to the loth August. 32,000 Communists are awaiting trial. There has been a frightful famine, accompanied by acts of cannibalism, in Persia. Queen Victoria is dangerously ill. FRANCE. i August 14. Another instalment of the war indemnity has been paid. The German army of occupation is reduced to 150,000 men. Marshal M'Mahon reports the total losses of the Versaillists in the siege of Paris at 75,132. The trial of the Communists has commenced. The Assembly has passed a Bill to facilitate the disposal of 32,200 cases. England has refused to deliver up the Communist refugees in Britain. Witnesses stated that they saw Ferre give released convicts arms. Assay boastfully admitted his share in the execution of prisoners taken. He said he was justified by the law of retaliation. A despatch from the General in command at Algeria reports a brilliant victory at Schoel. The situation is improved. The rebels are rapidly submitting to the Government. The negotiations at Berlin and Versailles for the evacuation of France resulted in an agreement that the Army of Occupation should leave before the end of the j-ear. General le Flo urges on the Assembly to keep up an army of 50,000 m.'ii. Murel moved that the title of President of the Republic be conferred on M. Thiers, and that all the powers heretofore exercised by him as Chief of the Executive be confirmed for three years. The motion was favorablv received by the Assembly, and will probably be carried. GREAT BRITAIN. * August 14. The Queen is confined to iur room. Physicians are in constant attendance. The Ballot Bill was rejected by a majority of forty-nine. Chief Justice C »ckbum has been appointed English Arbitrator ou t\\>. Washington Treaty. Sir R mndell Palmer acts as counsel for Great Britain. A terrible collision occurred between the police and Orangemen in Londonderry, consequent upon an attempt to stop the procession in celebration of th<» anniversary of the siege of the city. The police and military were called out to quell the disturbance. A large number were wounded, and a few arrested. A meeting was held in Hyde Park on August 15th, to protest against the suppression of the meeting at Dublin. Asiatic cholera has made its appearance in Loudon.

G-r eat excitement among the people. Berlin •lispioiiH s-iy lint cholera is in* creasing in Ko nigs berg. The contribution for iha repair anil completion of St. Paul's are considered satisfactory. Napoleon is said to have great faith in his restoration. A London special correspondent say* that the Hyde Park meeting was a great failure. About twenty men and a hundred, ragamuliiu boys were present. There was a lively debate'in the House of Commons.on the 1-kli August, on Army matters. Mr. Cardwell defended the English ilitary system. He said the Prussian system was unworthy of a free country. The matter dropped without a motion having been made. The Emperors of Austria and Germany met at Wells, when cordial feelings were exchanged. The Loudon 'Post' attributes political significance to their Majesties' meeting, which is considered to have reference to the rumored alliance between Prance and Austria. Prince Bismarck goes to attend the meeting of the Emperors, as also does Count Beust. A cable dispatch says that liussia is arming extensively. It is reported I hat she has formed an alliance with Prance. The ' Herald s' correspondent mentions the discovery of a well-organised scheme aim.'d at h G v 'mineiit of the Empire. Arr< sts have been made of nobieinen. merchants, and tradesmen. A dreadful calamity is reported. The small island of Sugalonda, in the Malay Archipelago, has been visited by a volcanic outburst at Wuwoug, accompanied by a dreadful earthquake convulsion. A sea-wave, forty yards high, swept numbers of human beings and cattle oil'. 4il(j people perished. A letter from a Jewish ltabbi in Persia says that that country is suffering the direst calamity, to which the worst imaginable situation is trilling. Mothers and fathers eating their children; husbands doing the same to their wives; grown-up brothers killing their younger brothers and sisters, and sometimes their fathers and mothers—food is all their cry. LATEST TELEGIIAMS. August 15, Evening. A disturbance has occurred at Strasbourg between the Prussians and the citizens,. iVumbers of both parlies were killed. It is reported that serious disagreements have arisen between the French and German G-overnmeuts, in reference to the Frankfort peace negotiation. Their dilliculties are likely to lead to complications resulting in a suspension of the treaty of peace entered into at Frankfort. Paris is reported in a very excited condition. A revolt of the army is expected. Humors are alloat that M'Mahon will be declared liegent-General. There is a stampede from Paris, in the belief that trouble and a crisis are at hand. The Orleauists scheme right for a coup d'e at.

A proposition for making M. Thiers the permanent President has been tabled.

M. Thiers is consequently very unpopu*lar.

Two fatal cases of cholera occurred in Paris, and three cases are reported to have taken place on board vessels from Constantinople. {Scott's centenary was celebrated in London on the loth August by a banquet. •10;) literary men were present. Celebrations took place in New York and various other American towns the same day.

The Edinburgh celebration took place on the 9th on a most magnificent scale, and was very successful. Intelligence from Para, Brazil, states that cholera, in a most malignant form, is raging there. The British consul and nearly every stranger died. Uiots have taken place in the Amadoa> mines, California.. The secretary was cruelly murdered. Order is restored.

A great storm has taken place on the coast, of .Newfoundland and Labrador. Ifc destroyed 325 fishing smacks, 23 dwellings, 10 stores, in all 300,000 dois. worth "of property. Ihe Staten Island ferry boat was crowded with passengers when the boiler exploded. The concussion was teriuic, shattering the fore par. of the boat, and scalding over 100 people. The cries of ihe poor half-boiled victims were heartrending. Som •of them were delerious from pain. There were many children on board. Same of their little legs had the cooked muscles laid bare, and their bodies scalded. A number were beyond recognition.

Intelligence has been received of the dyst.ue.i >u of tiie ci.y of jpjul'apetro on t!ie island of G-uadaioupe, iu the West Indi-'s. 30^00) peopLe Jiay.e. beon.reudoivd Houseless.