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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 151, 19 January 1872, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own Correspondent.) Dunedin, Thursday. A special meeting of the Waste Land Board was held on Monday. The' sale of Moa Flat was agreed to excepting the 1950 acres. Clarke's solicitors intimated that they would not accept an acre less than the area surveyed. The Nebraska took 46 passengers' including Vogel and Webb. A child has been burned to death in Auckland.

Brogden has commenced the works of the Waikato Railway. The construction of the telegraph to Tauranga is proceeding satisfactorily. Mackay is being assisted by Maori allies. The company at the Lyell reef."have, crushed 40 tons of stone, which, yielded 213 ounces of gold. The First Church disturbances enquiry was again brought before the Synod on Tuesday evening, and continued till past midnight. A motion by the Rev. Mr. Stobo that a committee be appointed to confer with the office-bearers and the llev. Mr. Sutherland towards effecting a reconciliation; was adopted. The report of the committee was brought up by the "Key. Mr. Stobo on the following morning, which stated that the committee had completely failed, chiefly on the ground

that the Rev. Mr. Sutherland would not admit shortcomings, Christian forbearance, and meekness, and that? the Synod recommend him to resign his present charge. The Rev. Mr. Suther-land-protested, and regretted that he could not comply with the finding of the Synod for five reasons, the first being that a majority of 30 or 90 of the congregation was in his favor.