By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 199, 20 December 1872, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.) ' ♦ ' : Dunedin, Thursday Afternoon. The Nevada has arrived at Auckland. Was detained at Honolulu awaiting the arrival of the connecting steamer. Ten thousand acres at Tapanui were M&f yesterday to Mr. James Logan by the Waste Land Board. a" Brosden's navvies, ex the Christian M'AuslanH, have struck work for higher wages. Mr. : J. J. Smyth has offered them 6s. per day ofeight hour?. Forty have accepted the offer. The remainder still hold out. The Sew Zealand Insurance Company have declared a dividend of 10 per cent. ENGLISH, AMERICA.!*, AND CONTINENT At. The Rangitoto brings English news to the 9th inst; the cable was then interrupted. The. Left in the French Assembly demand. a dissolution. - =•• /' The wool sales closed 0$ the sth. 62,000 bales were sold, at the close recovering prices, exceptjmesy Cape sorts. Dr. Featherskone is shipping salmon ova for Dunedin.

Lady Doughty, on her deathbed, re-affirmed" her convict on that the claimant was not Tichborne. This declaration created a strong impression on the public mini. The popular enthusiasm in the claimant's, canse is rapidly abating. A destructive hurricane which passed .oTer . London did enormous damage tolhe as *lao. to public ami buildings. ... The following items are \)y tjtie Ualifprnian.

An . attempt made at Exeter to celebrate stration 'ag&iosi the and !ujti-. mately into a riot. There are seyeqteen meu in the hospital.

I: . Birtamftia. not J; jGreatfloixfa hare .tasen. place do- tlie river hfy"* aid wiij>le _towiiß have |

corporated under the New York law] The whole capital of the company is two million dollars. The shares are all taken up. The New Yo- k directors are Webb, Wood, and Lowry; the San Francisco directors, Lloyd, Lewiss, and Butter worth.; vice-president, Mills.

fhe granting of the American subsidy is considered as certain. Victoria Woodhull and her sister have been -indicted .for circulating obscene publications. 2000dol*. bail has been accepted. A frightful hone epidemic is raging in the State*.

AUSTRALIA. The Austral! n news is unimportant-. The Victorian Legislative Council has given way on the disputed Bills passed, iucludmg the Judges Salaries" Increase Bill. S'r Jatnes Fergusson has married Miss Richmann, sister-in-law of Captain Hughes, the rich Moonta Mine proprietor. Clyde, Tuesday. A stormy indignation meeting was held here last night; about the sale of auriferous land in Wai Keri Keri Valley by the Waste Land Board. A vote of no confidence in the Executive was passed; . / deputation to the Superintendent leavee here to-mo*row.