By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 178, 2 August 1872, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

(From our cwn Correspondent.) . « —: • Dunediri, Thursday. : AUCKLAND. A miner named John Lawsou was killed on Wednesday- last from the effects of-a fall of earth. It is reported that the. Caledonian mine, the Long Drive, and the Ail Nations, will probably amalgamate. Another <:ase« of small-pox is reported, which was sent to the smallpox hospital.

The share market is dull. Caledonians, £33. .. . :

AIUUVAL of the "HHSTG-LISH MAIL F/^SUEZ.

The Geneva Arbitration Court have definitely rejected the indirect claims as being incompatible with international law. ..'

Tenter den's requesb for an adjournment was refused.

The next meeting is fixed for the 15th July. The ship D. P. Olierah was burnt in the Pacific. Crew saved. The German Parliament after voting a Bill expelling the Jesuits from the country, closed its sittings.

Bishop Ermeknd declines to obey the Prussian Government, and states that he cannot withdraw the sentence of excommunication he pronounced ■■ The struggle between Prince. Bismarck and the Pope waxes fiercer. Bismarck recognises no ecclesiastical jurisdiction antagonistic to civil authority. ' .. . .

On July the 6th full details were received regarding the safety of Dr. Livingstone, as follows :—Mr. Stanley spent four months with himj and obtained his journal for the. 'Herald.' The Dr. will remain two years more to prosecute explorations. . The search expedition -is broken up, and the members have gone home. Serious charges have been brought against Dr. Kirk, the consul at Zanzibar, for obstructing Dr. Livingstone At a public meeting held in Tuapeka on Tuesday last denouncing the 'sale of land to Messrs. Cargiil and Ander- 1 sou, a resolution was carried, charging Messrs. Keid and Mervyn with uttering gross untruths respecting the land.

Mr. De Maus, late of Dunedin, died, in 'Fiji suddenly from apoplexy.