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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 201, 3 January 1873, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our special correspondent.) • DuiK'tiin, Dee. 3J. 2 5 ) p.m. The General .md Provincial Governinents have unanimously a n reel to ••in nence the Channel and Mauuherikia Wau-r iface at once. The works are to be earned out iu accordance with rhe .engineer's report The Proin-iil Government have undertaken the construction of the woks Mr. Simpson to have full control. The Municipality h to be gazette! tu marrow.' \ The license fees are to be paid to the Xaseby Council. Dun;-dm, 12.0 p.m. Mr. Simpson, 0.K., leaves here on Monhv next, and will arrive at Xaseln •ii Tuesday, to arrange about the coritracts for the construction of a Sludge Channel, &>'. The Governor, the Superintendent, and the «to Id fields Secretary purpose Naseby in a fortnight. December 31st The Waste Lan-ls Board held their adjourned meeting to-day, to consider, Mr Campbells application at the Maerewlterui. The Boar.J decided to reserve 53.000 acres for mining purposes. Mr. Campbells application was shifted Northward to the Otaike. Jaouarv Ist. John P. ter Beck was committed to fake bi< trial at Supreme Court, for wouinling his wife with a t »m ihawk. The railway and pier, rill be opened by His Excellency the Governor. (From our own wrreaponctant.) 12 noon. The Oeneral Government have remitted to the Provincial Executive the carrying out of the Xaseby Sludge tbannel.

The works are to be proceeded with immediately, in order that they mav. he in a forward state before the win-' ter *ets in j Dunedin Jin 2. 3.15 p.m. Customs revenue at Dunedin £225, L4-J; increase £33 629 over li>7t. The Governor attended the Caledonian £atheriii£. The weather was splendid. 5000 people, on the <?rouud Mr. James Hayes, draper, Abaura stuck up by bush-ranger* Tuesday night throe miles from town and robbed of 369 ounces of gold, notes und clieques - total value £I6OO. ■ UakotaN arrived at Auckland yesterday, making through trip within contract time. News unimportant. A letter from Berlin tells of a storm experienced in the north of Europe on November 4th, that for. violence. was

unprecedented within the memory ot' living man. Baltic coast annals have not contained accounts of such destruction for over 200 years. The Kailway lines are broken up i business brought to a standstill: sea-walls smashed to atoms : and whole trains swallowed up by the tfatera. Aec units from Stratsand, Kiel, Guisswaid, and Bwansanmonde oF Jike description. A second deluge occurred the following Wednesday November 6th. Great part of Guisswald under water to a depth of five feet. Total nu nber of craft's foundered at Stracsand over 80, all gone to the bottom. 80 hands drowned in them : all along the Baltic Coast the inhabitants are suffering from of water, the sea having flooded all the wells. Cromwell, December 27th. The races were again successful today, though the course was very dusty. Tine results of the various events are as follows : Maiden Plate.—Malice, L ; Wexford, 2. Handicap Hurdle Itace.—Sir rat-ton won in a canter. Maid of the Mi 1 jumped one hurdle and thenbaulked. Jockey Club Handicap.—Bargundy,, I ; Tambumii, 2 ; Atlas, 3. Won by half a length. Hack selling Kace.—Golden Cloud, 1 ;,Fenian, 2. Consolation Stakes.—Bruuette, 1 ; Lyndon, 2 Some further races will be run tomorrow.