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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 216, 18 April 1873, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

CJ X. (From our own correspondent;.) ' -—~—^ ; — : —- Dunsdiiv Thursday Evening. The City Council by a- majority of one, reduced the rate to Is. 3d. Re id addresses the Taieri electors on the 23rd. - The passenger? of the Philip Laing celebrated the tw nty-fifih anniversary of their landing, by a picnic at Port Chalmers on Tuesday last. About 120 attended. The Superintendent, at the dinner, snidhe hoped, within a .few months, to see moored at tlie railway pier-steamers of l;i'-ge tonnage, direct from ome, making the passage in 40 days, and bringing 800 to 1000 immigrants each trip. it is understood that Mi*. Cargill's mission Home is to arrange this service. Mr. Tliomas Russell, Auckland, Home in the Nebraska. * have asked him to take steps the penalties due by Webb, and to nnaie regarding the prospects of a futu-re s s6i?vic^^ lie' consented to act Avithuiit will b(J).accompanied by Gray. oEjiQie.' Poji&'Qißee.went to Auckland to ie%Bu?£i2il before-'liis dep.lrt.iire. - . ' lhe City of Dunedin sailed with 21« passengers. The foundation stone- of the Masonic Ilall. Tima.ru, wag; shifted the day after it was laid, and the bottle containing the coins removed. . Sir F. 1). Bell, in-his speech at Invercfirgillj on the su%j,ect of future taxation, said—Vogel and- Sfcatf warned the people about was nec-essn-y t'O the question how additional taxation- imposed. It -was anticipated -f we' would hav< both-propevly and income reach mgfrio) only to it-lie slttbo ring classes, b"ow to squatterl^\3|.dyOthe| , Sy who' diet'not now pay their proporK^nate-share. He sai'l, for hi.part. —let it come. The country would yet make strides, lie had great confidence inbut we ought.h thfe in fie: estffcp If 1 oans. o u t "of loa'nsy^wliil ft sfioultl be revenue. , Jaidepi^dent' says that Russell is |ip|rlep^^ ; lfc i*^ti|g|jo|^'i4j;i!nent.' Co 's ili« cm ploymeh t offt'V ft l§f p -o iie<£~ tSirfpsi^ pia $ rged ; tfcfi j iipe, MU'getl' -^liat3' pibirowaj sliQwiy, j sproof tiia£ t|ie d ] a ppeal:. iseSiainfill A r ni £>gis i^PO— to mm eLjkl td- W meriV •' v Zji*--' : s

by Mr. LaiTjticli for £25,000 and £34,000 respectively. The Albion arrive..] at She Bluff with dates to the 10th, and the Suez mail.

Cambridge won the boat race by three lengths.

. Colonel Andrew Clarke, of the Royal Engineers, has been created a K.C.B. An excited debate took place in the French Assembly, on the 4th, on Prince Napoleon's pel i! ion on his expulsion from France. D«fame refused to rejeive t:;e Committee's report ceiisaring tho Groveniment. Afterwards they submitied- a Bill excluding the whole Bonaparte family, which was voted. Money easier. .Discount, irj. New Zealand b ives, 108$ ; Sixes, 111. New Zealand hemp, £23 to £2 5. Wheat dull. Preserved, meat;! dearer- Butter, 90s. per cwt. The steamer At ian tic, one of the fiuest of the United vSi.ates line, was totally lost. While proceeding from Liverpool to New. York she stranded near Halifax. 569 lives lost including 350 women and children. Knatchbuil ilugesson has introduced the amended Customs Bill in accordance with Karl KLmberiey's promise. Under the Bill power is given the Yictorian Legislature to enact loilris, remitting and imposing import duties sis regards other colonic?. Power to be impartially exercised intercolonially. Duties not to be ut variance with existing treaties •between England and foreign Powers, nor areduties ;o be levied'on articles for supply Inr perial prices (?) It is rumored that the Khan of Khiva is alarmed, and will return the Itussian prisoners as s.on us the Russians enter Khiva.

The Commons have rejected the Euphrates Ya-ley railway scheme. Xhe .Bill passed by the Victorian Legislature legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sis er, has received the Ho_yal assent Sir James Fergusson leaves for New Zealand by the April mail steamer. JM;s3 Arabella G-oddard visits I lie colonies.