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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 235, 5 September 1873, Page 5

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(From our own correspondent.) Dunedin, Thursday Evening. The Alhambra'3 dates are to August the 25th. jThe wife of Marshal R&zaine petitions for her husband's immediate trial. 9 Dr. B-.jgg, of Edinburgh, has obtained leave from the Presbytery to visit New Zealand. The Dover Castle has "sailed with immigrants for Otago. AUSTRALIAN. Mr. Francis Gilford, late editor of the ' Post,' has died of heart disease. The ship Dallam Tower has been visited by thousands of persons. She presents a picture of utter desolation. It will cost.£(i,OUO to repair her. The cargo appeals but-little damaged, and will be brought down by the Omeo. The passengers are to be brought on by the Albion. . - . .- The Electoral Bill has been shelved by the Council.

The jury have been unable to agree in the case of Mrs. Shannon, charged with bavin* poisoned her child. " f The new Police Bill proposes-a superannuation at fifty-live, after fifteen' years' service of £'6o to £7O a year.

L Diptheria is making great ravages in Vic- ; toria. '-' ; :.r:;_;*^'^:3'-^-', ENGLISH COMMERCIAL."' ' \.i Z ' New Zealand iiv.es, i 0 sixes, 113. The wool sales closed on A.ugust the~l6th.There were 200,000 bales sold-- 12,000 .bales, were purchased for the Continent... --" * New Zealand hemp has risen 305.. since i last reports. "' Wheat has advanced. - " " - , BUNEuTN SHIPPIKti. Arrived.—Allahabad, ninety -two days out, - - with 230 immigrants. | At the Heads.—Peter Denny. . j . ASSEMBLY. I The Gold Mining Bill has born thrown out. , The Goldiiells members from Westland and ! Auckland objected that it had not been circulated early in the recess, as promised. The" j Premier moved the recommittal of the Bill. " i On the Education Bill being-brought on, • : , Mr. O'Neill's motion, that the Bill -be read that day six months, was negatived by- 20 to. 30. The Premier moved the insertion of a ~ 1 clause, to the effect that Provincial' Councils rjnuy strike out clauses .53, 54, and 56, re- 1 g.irding aided schools and Bible reading, - which was carried by 24 to 20. - - The second reading of the Loan Bill was carried this morning without a division. In the course of the debate, "Mr. Vogel denied there being auy truth in the=report that. Messrs. Bathgate and O'florke were, to retire from the Ministry. , ~ . - INTERPROVIN'CIAL. J^Mg At Wellington, the barque has been seize; I by the Admiralty C^^^^^^^H The South British Insurance declared a dividend of ten per cent. The crew of the William sacrificed their wages, rather than sea in that ship. The Thames Rifle Association representatives to the Intercolonial at Melbourne. /^^H There are eleven entries for the Cup. - .■ . . DUtfEDIN. - ■ / The northern escort brought "down 6,877'' ' ounces. The Peter Denny's passage occupied, eighty- . two days. She brings 340 passengers. ..'.Seven 5 " deaths occurred,-chiefly infants V v ' !: "' ':-*" . The Columbus, from London, has arrived ' at Lyttelton with" 193 passengers: - - ■ ■=..■ •-.> LATEST. " '' "-' '■'■ *:-' Thomas Crisp, the quarter-master of theship Allahabad, fell off" the r Port Chalmers and was drowned. 7- -' . -'. ■ ; " The -Government declines to erect,railway workshops at Dunedin. John Ileid, in the employ of Ileid' and. Gray, irohfoimders, died suddenly • yesterday. . " " s :• ..;. ;'£ , Numerous members of the House,;including'many supporters of the "Vifi 5 """" endeavor to get the Borrowing Bill amended in Committee, in order to enable "Provinces to construct public works on the 'security of laud without,'from time to time, asking the consent of the Assembly.- , They think "that otherwise there would be too much depending on the Government of the day, in which case there would be a large amount of logrolling. - ' . . -• , It was Mr. Steward, member for Oamaru, who suggested that the Provinces should be. limited to borrowing" at six per cent. *' r - : The. Gold.ricdds Bill has passed through: Committee with but J