By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 171, 14 June 1872, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own Correspondent.)

Dunedin, Thursday. Two cottages, situated ia York Place, belonging to Mr. Hay, bookseller, were totally destroyed bj r fire yesterday! The loss is estimated at £520. £2OO covered, by insurance. A gold watch, worth thirty guineas, is also lost in the lire. • One of the cottages was occupied.by .Mr. Burnsf and the other by Mr. Corbett, belonging to Messrs. A. and T. Burt. The following is the result of the ■Waikouaiti election, with the exception: of the polling return from Macraes, which, undo?''the cirr-urast.anees, will not iii any' way affect the return of Sir David Munro :—- Monro , ... 218 ■ Webster ... 52 Preston. ... Al Hutcheson ... .16 . Cutten : 7 -. Thompson ..-. . ... ... - 4 The Nevada with the San Francisco "mails, is due at Auckland on Wednesday next. The Tararua, with' the mails, via Suez, is hourly expected at Hokitilia. June 11th. The yield of gold from the Thames, during the month ending on the 11th June was 8925 ounces,andthe amount of the dividends declared during the same period was £ 12,811. The share market is quit-!;. Sales haye been effected as follows; —dale-

IdmriMn, £:_7- 15*.; S S; s'*.-, I All Nations; £3 ss. Mr. ftfae.kay has succeeded in buying 150,000 acres of la:id on the tipperThames. . Charleston, June 11'.. . A tremendous, gale took place herelast' night. The town and mining property considerably damaged: Hokitika, June. 11. J. 70 prime .fat cattle.were sold to-day at 255. to 30s. per lOOlbs. Wellington, June .11. . Despatches, via Suez, state that the order for the piles and girders for the Waitaki bridge is completed. The regaining material will be.shipped in the Napier for Dunedin. The shi > Benirio're sailed for Lvttelcoii with a eargp of raits and other iron works ; the ship William Davi<* sailed on the 10th April for Dunedin with assisted immigrants.. The English laborers for Messrs. Brog-. den are to be employed on the Picto'i and Blenheim railway. The Celestial Queen, with 90 immigrants for Auckland, sailed on the 19th A pril . Dr. Featherston has forwarded to' Wellington 500 rooted vines, selected from vineyards on the Rhine, with the-"' view of facilitating a small settlement of vinegrowers. The A gent-G-eneral hopes to be able to send'but a dozen families of experienced vine-dressers from the Khine, and also from Bordeaux and : :Baizaire. - Bishop funeral was largely attended. The procession iueluded. a band, the fire brigade,. schools, the Toun-y Men's -Christian Association, ladies and girls in mourning, the Sisters of Mercy, sixty girls in half mourning, priests'as the Bishop's pall-bearers, 100 mourners, the Mayor and CityCouncil, citizens, Maories, and the Governor's carriage. }>r.,Moran preached the funeral oration.,. 1500 people were hi the Cathedral during the funeral service...

The 'ln .Impendent' states that there was no minister of the:.Protestant denomination present at the funeral of Bishop Viard. , L , : Bluff, June 10. When the T?ahgitoto was leaving, su. man was found hanging by a rope from the gangway. He was qjdie dead. On him was found a pocket-book, in which was a draft in favor of John Roddam for. £294. The man was unknown on board the steamer.