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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 218, 2 May 1873, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

.(From our own correspondent.) Dunedin, Thursday Evening. Another of- Sullivan's murderers has been discovered to be a native named Gabriel, vvho it is believed, was interested in the land where the murder was committed. The schooner Energy, from Tahiti, picked up a Kanaka, who had been 22 days at sea in a canoe. The ' Southern Cross' has been purchased by a company for £4OOO. Captain Daldy, W. S. Graham, Vogel, and Statin us Jones are the directors to work the company. Capital, £IO,OOO. On opening the criminal sessions at Wanganui. Judge Gressou congratulated the district on the comparative absence of crime. Frederick Hodges was convicted of larceny. Since his committal the prisoner has come into" possession of between £6OOO and £7000... The turning of the first sod of the .Nelson railway is posi poned till May 6. Vogel telegraphed to the Superintendent saying that he hoped, with the turning of the sod, that past animosity would be buried. At Clyde, Shepherd and Beighton, (he arbitrator and umpire, awarded Feraud 220 acres for improvements on land held under agricultural lease and cancelled by the Government. Feraud claimed. 1000 acres. The Nelson Provincial Council-is opened. The Superintendent stated that the past year's revenue showed a decrease of £7OOO compared with previous years. He recommended the construction of' a line of railway from jNyaTiaah.au coal mine to Wostport. A Bid is prepared provided for forming local boards in Gold field districts, handiug over'to them half of the gross revenue raised therein to be expended in the maintenance of roads and pub-

l"(i wort#. Tlv inland communication. ?clieme hj« stro iglv. recommended. ■ ■ . J?.roiu ! bristehureh wo loprn.-fclial fche mast of a ship drifted ashore neirr New Brighton, 33 feet in length, and 6 feet in circumference at the butt, where ib had been chopped- off. On removing the barnacles it was found that it was charred by fire. -'The trials ol: coals from Porter's Pass show that they are superior to the Grrey or Newcastle coals for steam or-'household purposes. A petition asking the' Provincial Grov eminentto extend (he Ma'vera line to. Porter's Pass, has been numerously signed. It is estimated that an outlay of £30,000 "would bring Christ church within one day of liokitika. The General Government "will probably recommend the work to the Council. - . • Mr. Bluett, M.1i.11., received a vote of confidence from .his constituents. at Kowi. Pass. Sheehan's speech, delivered at a secret Maori meeting, has been published in Napier, and excites much indignation. He said the' Native Lands Act was a very bad measure, and had been worked by wicked Europeansso as to destroy the Maories. - Mr. Green, a clerk in the Bank pf • New Zealand,* Auckland, while examining one of Tranter's revolvers in the bank on Tuesday night, accidentally fired it off, the bulletlodging in his left breast, where it still remains. Green is still living, but is unable to be removed from the bank.