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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 226, 4 July 1873, Page 5

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Dunedin, Thursday Evening. The Superintendent, in his Address, advocated burying the hatchet. v "A stormy scene took place: .Gillies was appointed Speaker without" a division. ~ . Tolmie declared that he would leave the Government and the Waste Lands Board at the close of the session, which will take place in about ten days. Tolinie explained on Tuesday that he intended to re-construct the Government by taking on a northern and southern member. He refused to leave the Waste Lands Board so long as he was a member of the Government. Peid stated that the Government contractors had not been paid, and they were told at the Treasury that it was' the result of his action. Turnbnil gave a most unqualified con- j tradiction to the statement. i The Customs revenue collected at Dnnedin during the financial year was £127,134 being an increase of £25,900 over 1872-3. Shand moves to-day .a vote of want of confidence in the Government on the grounds that it doe 3 not advocate-.true progress, and its incompetency in carrying on the business of the country. ■ Gillies is a candidate for the representation of Waikouaiti in the General Assembly. Stout's motion, affirming the desirability of increasing the area of land to be thrown open under the deferred payment system from 30,000 to 100,000 acres,. was carried without a division, the Government supporting it. The Government also supportedLumsden's motion, reserving 200, 00l> acres of land in Southland 'under the same system, which was carried. • Shand's motion, reserving 200,000 acres along the line of the Clutha-Mataura railway was supported by the Government. It was, ;h6weveiy adjourned. T fhe Council are', now debating an urgent motion by Lumsden, which affirms that, doubts having been cast on the reservation authorised yesterday, the Superintendent is authorised in going to the market and purchasing the land. It was stated, in the course of the debate, that the sale in Southland is going on wholesale. At the Lands Board meeting there to-day 31,000 acres were sold, and the Government had no power to prevent it. The Government support Lumsdenis proposal, but' say.they have been advised that the Superintendent has not the power to buy. The Waste Lands Board' to-day sold 10,000 acres at Maerewhenua to Campbell. The 'House-yesterday appointed a Commissioner, to whom .the application, was referred, f ';??; INTERPRO VINCI AL. Purukutu is still with Te Kuiti, and intends remaining quiet. The natives say there will be no war.. E. J. O'Connor is a Candidate for the Nelson Superintendence'. The Hero has' arrived at Auckland. : She brings dates to the 24th ultimo. AUSTRALIAN. The news is unimportant. It is believed that the Mining on Private Property and Labor Bills will be rejected. Exile is backed. freely at 100 to 3 for the Melbourne Cup. CABLEGRAMS.. The Shah of Persia has granted Renter a monopoly of the telegraph line through his I dominions for seventy years. j 'The authorities are taking-precautions''to prevent the spread of small-pox from London to Chatham. The French Government have demanded authority to proceed with the trials of other Communists. .',;-■ The .war at Acheen is being vigorously prosecuted. The Dutch succeeded, in a second assault. m capturing two forts, but were repulsed in an attempt to take the chief fort. The fighting was' desperate, and Kohler, the Dutch cfominander, was killed. \ The invading force are at present engaged in besieging the Sultan's palace, and in storming forts, at which 200 of the Dutch were killed. The Dutch were assailed on all sides bynumerous > bands, and. retreated to the sea beach, behind the stockades at Penang, followed by a large Achineese force. >....'. The Dutch loss is already 500. . The Achineese loss is .unknown, but niust be immense. Further outbreaks are feared. The particulars of the outbreak at San Salvador reduce the loss of- life to 500. The loss of property amounts to seven million dollars. The first shock, on March 4th, was slight, but the inhabitants fled and encamped in the plaza and .fields. The great shock,

which took place next day, left only .two"buildings standing. ' Fires broke out afterwards, but they were quickly extinguished. The surrounding villages, "to a distance of forty miles, suffered from"the earthquake. Buckingham Palace was fitted up in great splendor when occupied by the Shah ' of Persia. The Czarina and Czai'ewitch are at Windsor Castle. The betrothal of the Duke of Edinburgh to a Russian Princess is regarded with public favor.' .Great dissatisfaction i 3 cxpi'essed- at the mild punishment of the Captain of the Mixrillo, which ran down the His certificate had been suspended for only twelve months, and the crew hare been released. The Great Eastern will lay the new Atlantic Cable. The evidence against the Tichborne claimant is becoming overwhelming, but the popular sjnipathy-is still with him. SrnaU-pox is severely attacking the troops at Chatham. The Irish packet foundered at Holyhead, and fifteen people were" drowned. A new Spanish Ministry is formed. The Prussians captured Koghanli after severe fighting. They subsequently captured the city of Mannhit. They are within two days' march of Khiva. It is believed that the ex-Empress Eugenie is plotting for the restoration of the Empire. An uneasy feeling prevails in France. A great deficit ia the revenue is expected in consequence.