By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 248, 5 December 1873, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.) ♦ ■■■■— Dunedin. Thursday Evening. Ig the Bench held to grant new li- ■ business. The or a fortnight to 's opinion, night down 9,247 propose establish- ; session, and also nutation from the :>mmerie. that, ow}f the San Frat/usuld not contribute )assengers were enle demand far exesigned his seat in Che writ is returnt is expected that ted. Mr. Murray, cssed the constitureceived a vote of / effected with tne gip'fc and (Jlutha lines. ■ The engino runs giro ugh from the Port to the Chain Hills toSorrow, with the Superintendent, the MinHster for Public Works 1 -, a Jul others. m Tlie Dunedin Presbytery' are going to mefuiorialise the Government to stop Sunday f trains. 1 | 'Pee store-room of M'Lebd's soap factory ftias been destroyed by tiro. The loss is copfvered by insurance to the amount of £1,500 in the New Zealand Company. The Governor telegraphs that he will be in Dunedin by the 22nd. He is travelling overland from Canterbury. He expresses a desire that no extensive preparations will be made for him, and particularly no procession. He will make Dunedin his head-quarters for a month. A little girl named Kneebone was burnt to death at Waikouaiti. The journeyrcari.painters of Wellington are to Btrike for 129. a day on the eighth if the masters do not agree to their demands. The Tapscott Committee held a meeting and passed resolutions thanking the press of "Wellington, Travers, find Izard (prisoners' counsel). Funds are being collected to get the men away, os employment. The Auckland cricketerii met with an enthusiastic reception on their return. They were played through the city by the band, aud have since been entertained to a public dinner.