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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 173, 28 June 1872, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

Auckland, June 25th, In the case Bank of New Zealand y. Boyle, an action brought to recover £IOO overpaid in error, the jury gave a verdict for the Bank, with immediate execution.

The Green Harp's crushing ia looking well. The market is dull. Hokitika, June 24. ; . Barlow, the "ex-postmaster, has been further remanded.

Wilson, a boatman, ivs missing, and is supposed to have been drowned.

Auckland, June 24. Mr. Thomson,*the small-pox patient, became worse on Saturday, and died yesterday, ile was interred the same afternoon. Every precaution has been taken, and it is believed the disease has been successfully stayed. There have been no fresh patients so far. The Hero brings Sydney dates to June 17. Nichol's and Lester will be executed to-morrow. Numerous applications have been made to witness the execution, and a hundred tickets have been issued.

The ' Sydney Morning Herald v comments favorably on the establishment of a San Francisco mail service. It says the lapse of the Duffy-Yogel contract opens a way for fresh negotiations The efforts that have been made to de-* velope a transpacific route prove that the route can never be abandoned; although it has hitherto resulted only in irregular and incomplete communication, both for postal and passenger traffic, yet it has capabilities that cannot be ignored. The opening up of the route was entirely owing to New Zealand taking the initiative in the matter. The . Duffy-Vogel contract was sound in principle, but altogether out in the details.

MELBOURNE: "v A public meeting refused to hear Mr. Francis, and he retired into a small room, where he delivered an address. Mr. G-aunsen, the rival candidate, addressed 2500 of the electors, and received a vote of confidence from them. Mr. Grant, ex-Minister for Lands, disproved the charge of dishonest administration of the Land Act brought against him by Mr. Francis, and read an apology from Mr. Francis for the statements he made on the previous evening. The Ministerial prospects are cloudy. . The ship Irish Empire is at the Heads, with ten of her crew in irons for mutiny. , Mr. L. L. Smith has instituted an action for libel against the ' Age' for some comments of a political nature, arising out of the Grovernment patronage of his paper the 'Times and Mines.'

Westport, June 25. The sea is still encroaching on the town, and the Bank of .Jsew Zealand has been pulled down to escape its ravages.