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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 206, 7 February 1873, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

. ■■■.. . (From our own correspondent.) Dunedin, Thursday Afternoon. Ex-sergeant Byan is committed for trial. Bail refused. The Agent,-G-eneral telegraphs a consider--able falling off in emigration, owing to the-season—-200 only being shipped in November and 400 in December. Emigration is likely to be slack during the ■■winter,* Ihe Grovernment h.ive accepted Curtis's terms regarding th« Brunner coal mine. The Grreymouth Corporation, waived their rights to enable a settlement to be come to. The Inter-provincial regatta promises to be a great success. Christchurch, Thursday. The Inter-provincial cricket match commenced to-day. The weather is splendid. Up to two o'clock Christenuvch scored 84, five wickets had fallen Coofe made 1 rim ; Cotterill 1; Stevens 1; and Howler 35.

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NEWS VIA SAN FRANCISCO. December 26th. A severe snow-pform has occurred.. Business is interrupted, and the streets are impassable in consequence. The thermometer has sunk to 10 degrees below zero. There is great suffering amongst- the poor. Other parts of America have fared worse. Railway travelling is suspended, and steamers are detained. The floor of the Baptist Church,. Philadelphia, gave way, precipitating 500 persons intoa cellar below. Fourteen were tilled, and forty seriously injured. 1 December 28th. During a storm that swept over the British Is]es, on December the 18th, trees were uprooted, conservatories smashed, chimneys and stacks demolished by the dozens houses unroofed, a large factory levelled, and forty people injured. At Liverpool the Great Britain dragged her anchor in the Mersey, pitched against the pierhead,.stove in her stern, and the water swept into t: e cabin. The Melpomene went ashoro. A tug went to the assistance of the Great Britain, and was swallowed up by the sea. Church steeples have been destroyed in Clifton, Yeovil, Crewe, Kerne, and Taunton. In Wiltshire niuety magnificent forest trees have been demolished. A stone wall at Richmond, nine feet high and one hundred feet long, was prostrated, Several accidents have happened to gasometers, leaving whole districts in darknes?3. The highest wind presure ever known in England occurred during this storm. January Ist.. The Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, has been burnt. The ship R. C. Wmthrop, from Antwerp, reported a meteoric shower off Madeira which,' lasted three hours. Over one thousand meteors fell. January 6th. The rain storm turned into sleet, freezing up everything; telegraphic communication was stopped by the accumulation of ice on the wires, and many of the poles fell. The whalaof New York was completely isolated. ■ . WASHING-TON. January 7th. A proposal has been. made to the Postmas ter-G-eneral for a mail service to Australia on sucli terms as will ensure the granting of a subsidy by both Governments. One hundred thousand dollars is asked from the UnitsdStates with a guarantee. Splendid vessels/it is said, will be .employed ; ttie steamers belonging to the Inman Line are probably intended. Strong influence with regard to the ra's of subsidy and the'financial responsibility of the parties offering to render it, exists. Certain arrangements Avdl be concluded. General Dix has been elected Governor of New York. Stokes has been sentenced to be hung for shooting James Fisk. • ■ - ■ i LO2TDON. December 31st. - During a missionary meeting at Stafford the floor of the building gave way and many were ; injured. By a railway accident near Glasgow ; forty persons were severely injured. January Ist. The Russian Government has frankly communicated to t.he= English Government its plan of campaign in"Central Asia, and. ha offered to allow English officers to witness, it.