By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 215, 11 April 1873, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.)

Dunedin, Thursday Evening. The City Coun *ii prop >se r..;e rate to 3d in t.he ..flowing to increased income. The jury, in Ityau's case .were locked up at. five yesterday, and discharged at ten this morning. Eight for guilty. New trial fixed •or tlte 21st. in G;eeson's ca«e. the jury, after liaK-an-flour's, deliberation, returned a verdict ot'. iut iuilty. J »iseharged./ Oimaru Day.—The weather vvas fine, and the atfendance Maiden ''late—Blackbird, 1.; Color Sergeant., 2; 3. ■ Handicap—Tamboimni, 1 ; .Latred 2 ; Nelly Grey 3. Slow race, ali i •von easily. .The Ladies' Purse was won in a :ratit"i* by Malice. The Rangitoto has arrived atllokitika. She left Melbourne on the 3rd. Sir George Hawen was sworn in Gove nor wit h great, ceremony. The cable is internr.ited. Gisborne was offered but declined a seat'in the Upper House. Pearls and Hunter also deelined seats. Vogel is gazetted Premier. The others retain old portfolios. I». is .officially d nied that the Government intend to ask f.«r a dis.-olu' ion. Hie d telegraphs that lie hid to fall back oil Shaw, Savilie and Co. for the conveyance of immigrants ~t £l6 per liead. £2 nure than at present. The ca.pt am of the Brechin Ca.-tle, now iu Wellington, offers to bring them out for £L4 10s llie G 'vernment are determine 1 to enforce the penalties in Webb's line. Payment is stopped ol last month's subsidy. At ••Auckland. Peter • Carroll, an old man. was convicted of rape, and sentenced to imprisonment for iife Judge .Johnson said lie wouid iiiive ordered him a whipping if in his pow-r. . The free schools in Grahamstown are crowdedWebb and Murray Aynsley are candidates for the vacant J yttelton seat. The soui hern escort is 3384 ozs. ! Melbourne won the fnterco'ouial boitrac'. The Sydney C<nincd by a majority of 20, threw out, the '.Upper li'ouso Reform Bill. The Assembly hj:« voted £50,0J0 for Immigration. Unpublished ■ Continental telegrams, dated London, March 3, state that the Spanish Provincial authorities in north Spain oppose the 1 vyenmas-e The Carl ists have routed the Guverunient troops, lie pole also took 4J J pris- ners. Grea excitement in Barcelona.