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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 244, 7 November 1873, Page 5

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. own correspondent.) ; , jphmedin, Thursday Evening. .. .At the .inquest on the lire at Fleming's the jury returnedlan open verdict. The Supreme Court ease, White v. Mackellar, is expected to finish on Saturday., The Lady Jocelyn and the 'May Queen have arrived from London. 'The former brings 200 passengers. ■•■. Nine rleatba occurred during the voyage—chiefly children. She has "been placed in quarantine,

Th.i Vvir!;M.-.v!i eswrb.brought down S0 5 »9 GllllCi- . - ' ' America establishes -two observatories iii the Colony, to watch the transit of Venus. The Governor is to arrive at Christchureh ■to-morrow. Mr. Williamson is expected to be returned as Superintendent for' Auckland. The pilling to-morrow will be very keen. The following is a copy of a telegram received from Mr. Russell:— ' • ."London, October 24.' - "Russell to Vogel.— Preliminary contraG J i*r>» signed for boi-h Af an If rill' preparing full contract. o.i coufciu.-tors" behalf : .Paul Forbes, of China house of ftua3«ll 'and Co., and Debuesohe, Chi.ia, merchant; good men, largo 'at earn- hip expevu-nce. Pi-r-"' ' maneiit serxioe according with resold ions. '. Tempt).,try sorvico will be about eleven ki'.o.>-, beginning with the Macgregor (g.iiug . t-u China), from Syln-y i a D-ce.nb -r • ihoTamar, new, from Sydney in January. "The Mongol, now building, goes-from London to DuneJin. with emigration in tim-fr--to take the EeVuary mail from Sew Zetland to San Francisco.- The M-icgregor rd uniA from Son Francisco to Xew Z".ihv\v\."' INTERPROVI^CIAL. Auckland'. The employers of girls in factories have neglected to adopt the provisions of the Factory Act. The girls are agitating. • Betting is freely indnlged in over the Superintendency election. Odds are given in, favor of Williamson. ' The Chief Justice is a passenger by theLadybird, which sailed-to-day. • Mr., J. S. Macfarlahe has been dined £50,. and his manager £lO, and costs, for a breach of the injunction with regard to floating logs at Waikekerei "(sic)". The Judge threatened: that, in future breaches of the'orclers of the Court, imprisonment will beinlicted without, the option of a fine. Grahamstown, Nov. 3: The election excitement over the fcuperintendency contest is intense. Mr. Williamson, addresses to-night, Mr. Dargaville to-mor-, row*, and Mr. Lusk on Wednesday. INTERCOLONIAL. Melbourne, October 28/ ; . In compliance with a request "bv~~ tion from the .National the Government have gazetted a prohibition" against isfew Zealand cattle. • Despatches have been sent to New Zealand " to-day, explanatory of the prohibitive law against cattle.

Tliere was a grand-demonstration -yesterday, on the opening of the railway to Wangaratta. ' The Railway Bill has passed the Assembly- , ■ ■ ■■ • A. clerk in Hie Lan Is Office has disappeared and is suppoß.d to have gone to New Zealand. A, large meeting of seamen demand eight, hours, aiid'refuse to sign articles on a'ify"oElisrterras after (,he Ist nf'Nov'p-.nber.

Tiie Bishop ol Melbourne < Ur. Perry) -defends fciie New Zealand missionaries -against Dr. Lung. The new diocese of Badarat has been created.

■ Governor Bowen publicly opened Jibsie's Turkish, baths. . .. -

Pender and Wilson, wealthy larrikins of the upper .class, were sentenced to seven Says' imprisonment, for' assaulting the proprietor of Scot - '8 hotel. •

Bridget M'Oarthy, who threw her newlyborn child to 1 lie pigs, was sentenced to__two~~ years for concealing its birth. The National Agricultural Show was the. finest yet held in Melbourne. The total amount of Goodwin's defaicationsfrom the (Jo.oiml nank was nearly £io,Ooo. Sydney, October 28, The Grovernor and Lady Robinson J< ft.ty... day to atteud the Aleljoar..e races, urnl will, be the guests of Sir Greorge Bowen. LAX.E3L' CABLEGRAMS. ■ '' London, October 25. Dr. EI healey i* ihdkpjsed Tne oxa, u:aation of the witnesses for the defence is concluded. Mr. Bright, at Birmingham, advocated England's withdrawal froth the Ashantce war, and the reconstruction of the Kducvtion Act. The English cricketers left England on the 23rd October. - The expedition against the Ashantees to Coomassie, the Ashantee caj it.il, is decided on. A Oonserv.itivH candidate was elected for Hull. France. The Comte da Ohambord concedes all their requirements to deputation from the Right.. The Monarchists leave to the Assembly the terms on which tiie Cointo de Chainbord"shall be invited to the Throne. Thiers heads the Republican opposition against the Monarchists. . . Spain. The Minister of Marine assumes tiie command of the squadron, vice Admiral Lobo dismissed. -rv Aden. Disturbances hare occurred amono- the Turks at British troops left Aden io, quell them. _-