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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 222, 30 May 1873, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

(From otii' own eonvspondoiil;.) Duncdin, Tinusday Evening. The Scotsman, from Newcastle, has arrived it Lyiteiton. ISlie reports the loss of the brig .Australia,, Captain Craig, and all hands, oft" Cape Campbell on Friday, during a heavy The Scotsman had a narrow escape.iSrogdcn's tender for Hie Waifcaki railway has been declined, it being in exeess of the estimate. . \ iNgatirukawa has been -warned thatVXiipupu will be killed at Waitu.' if the surveys for Europeans are not stopped. At the opening of the Marlborough Provincial Council, the Superintendent spoke of the progress of the Province as satisfactory. The Tararua has arrived at the Bluif. bho brings English news to the luth inst. The Californian mails were delivered in Loudon on the liJth. The steamer Fidelia, from Cardiff to Dunelin, was totally wrecked off Port .Elisabeth. The crew wei-e saved. khe was I,O'UU tons buvtheii, and was intended to be run. as i\ collier between Newcastle and here-. Eiig'.-utd and Frniee have exciitiuged eom-mu.-iiciii'His rel-iiive to the liiiiure of Frei-e's mission t.u Zinziiwr. Fi"in<-e denies }i-.!»iuii authorised tiie ISidtjn ioly on her jiror.i'c t >n. • ■/ ' " i ho ' publishes telcgiMrns Styi;Jr'fc!i;il i\!)iv.:r hu-i l";il .-ti. A. deucjaieat ofiiie Aturiue Baitery has left

"Portsmouth to operate against the Asbantees - on the 6-old Coast of Africa. The engagement of the .Duke of Edinburgh with the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, is confirmed. Dublin University Bill passed the- s>econd reading in the Lords. Admiral Cu-nmiug, and the whole available force on the lu.lian Station, have been ordered to Ziuzibar. The Pope is subject to lonoj fainting fits, and is suil'ering from great debility. 1 ATJSXUALIiy. Yicforim Parliament is opened'. - A new Electoral Bill to alter the constitution of the Upper House, and also Postal Measures and Mining on Private Property Udls . were introduced. ' 0 Quvern ;.ent positively declined to enter on the new Mail Service, uule : s on the terms- of the Conference. Chamber of Commerce T and the Mercantile Community support the tiovernmerit. . It is understood that New Zealand will go in with the Victorian Government-. Smalt pox bro'ie out as the JJaroda .was leaving. Forty-six passengers refused to go. . C-.tble communication interrupted. The great divorce .cise of ViUeneuvc Smith, barrister, v. wife an-1 Armstrong, concluded al'fciT six d;iys' trial. Grreat scandal,, and ' tubL'S comp etely turned upon Smith. ICabafc sentenced to eleven years. Bishop Selwyu of Melanesia arrived at Sydney. LA'CRST PHOVIN'GIAt, ll.Mai3, Kiirkira, br.dge opens to morrow. Christchureh Jockey Club refuses to rescind the disqualification of Peeress. Schooner Mary o_jilvie has been success-, fully re-launched at, Oamiru. .Nomination of Superintendent is to take place on June 4th, imd the election on the eighteenth. S rong efforts are being made to get Major Richardson to stand, but have proved fruitless. It is now generally believed that Macandrew will be unopposed. *.—;'. Great activity in the City. There are a large -number of candidates tor the Council. Webster and Hutchison wiil-be opposed by local men. Barr by Cargill, Flexman, and Roberts. " ' .... Captain Baldwin has been requisitioned to stand for Mount Benger and Waikouaiti, bub il is doubtful whether he will. Major Kicbardsou comes forward as candidate tor the Clutha. Stout held a large meeting last night, and - secured a vote of confidence. Mavandrew jut issued a manifesto to t' e people. He says the electors will be told that the present diilieulty has arisen solely from the undue, grasping of power by himself. Ut- .'' terly n itrue. Probably it- would have been well for the Province, had the constitutional powers of the Superintendent been exercised by a firmer hand. Refers to the wasteful, useless struggles lately, and says, depend upon it the sooner the placing of the Parliament is done with, the better. Province cannot longer afford it, nor is it worth them mej. If electors true to thier own interests will return men to make it a point that necessary busi-" ness shall not extend over fourteeu days. - Arrived Michael Angeio from London," eighty-six days out. 140 passengers in ail. - : The Black Watch from Batavia brings 173 Chinese. J. and N". Campbell, Invercargill, are the successful'tenderers for the Tiijipeka railway for £6S,OOQ. Five tenders received fo<r the entire work, and .eleven for seetio sal 'parts. The highest tender was £130.000. The Queensland hairless horse Caoutchouc is on board the Tararua, and is intended to be exhibited throughout the Province. At an influential meeting of the Ngarawhia it was resolved to petition the Assembly to \ extend the Auckland-Waikato railway lo th.o confiscated boundary without delay. J. S. Macfaplane contests the Auckland sii;irrinlendeney and M'Leod's seat at Bay of Is.and 1 ?. Murdoch, the Inspector of the Bank of Xew Zeal md, teleg"i)jhed to Vogol that the minimum lor the four p"i* cent. 3o«n is £lO too high. Tenders received from Sydney for £i»Jb\Goo, but only £SOO was above the minimum, the remaining offers ranging from £So io£Dlss. In Melbourne tenders received i'or £330,000, of which £IOOO reached tho minimum, and the balance ranged from £BO to £9 ■). Between tiie date oi' opening the tendei-s and the departure of the Tararu.* £25,000 was'taken up at the minimum The Canterbury Provincial Conned have carried 'csolutions .that the Province should be represented by an Immigration Agent in England, and have voted £3-J,Ood for his support in case invangoincnts cannot be mads with the Colonial Govcr'.nnenfc. VERY LATEST. Howorlh, the solicitor, opposes Green at Blueskin, and M. C. Orbeil opposes Smith at Waikouaiti. < The Raglan natives held a meeting, at which they condemned Sullivan's murder, and carried resolutions to the effect that they would consent toljecome soldiers to prolcob" Europeans in their district, and to go in pursuit oi Purakubu. Assurances 'have been received that theUriweras will not join the King party. ' The ' Independent' says that the ' Government have no intention 'Of jjroposing any Parliamentary- measure involving, constitutional changes. Possible circumstance.'? may make it necessary... for the kS-overnmenl'io submit measures fov remedying certain- defects in trie- cons.ituti-on-of Provincial "Governments; but they pr->bably will be inoro in the dhvetion of incicasing the efficiency of ei,-;islhi.;" invitations than that of urrpairm'r mem.