By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 256, 30 January 1874, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.) .

1 Dimedin, Thursday Evening. The first case under the Animals Protection Act has "been heard at Tokomairiro, a settler named Hendy being fined 40s. and costs for shooting ducks. a little girl named Keith'was killed by a fall as she was running down hill. ' ■

It is understood that the site of railway workshops is settled to be at Hillside.

A sudden death took place at the Port Chalmers lock-up yesterday. James Walker, a seaman belonging to the Elizabeth Graham, had'been arrested for drunkenness, and died in the'cell. At the inquest a verdict of died from heart disease was returned. ' The' ship Crusader, from London to Lyttelton,. with immigrants, passed the - Heads yesterday. All well.

The Surat investigation was finished today. ■ Maitland gives his decision to-mor-row.

The Judge granted a Rule prohibiting purchasers of the -wreck from • disposing of passengers' luggage. A-remarkablerase came before the Supreme Court yesterday. ■ In N. >vember last a member of a' Chinese firm in Dunedin, Mow Tie, died. Ah Hing, storekeeper at.the Bannock-i burn, claiming to be deceased's brother, obtained letters of administration, whereupon he applied to the firm for an account "of-part-nership transactions, and the delivery to himself of Mow Ties' assets. The firm' replied that Ah Hing was not Ties' brother. A riile nisi to show cause why letters of administration should not be withheld until a jury determine the question- of relationship was granted. . At Hokitika a prisoner named Isaac Levi, undergoing a sentence of six years, attempted to cut down overseer Fergusson when cutting firewood. Fergusson ,dodged the blow—the handle of the axe striking him on the shoulder. AUCKLAND. The controversy regarding the running of Sunday trains waxes warm.- Influential presI sure is to be brought to bear on the Colonial Secretary to stop them. ' CLYDE. i The case Police v. Stanbrook, for selling Calcutta sweeps without auctioneer's license, was dismissed, the Bench holding sweeps to be illegal, and that the property assumed to be sold could have no existence., Conse- v quently there was no sale, and the action j could not lie. ADDITIONAL AUSTRALIAN. , A combination match was played at Warnambool on January 15. Eighteen, including Cooper, Gaggin, Conway, and Allan, played eleven, including Wills and six Englishmen— M'lntyre, Greenwoodf Oscroft, . Jupp, Lilly-white, , and Southerton. The eighteen made 172; the eleven, 26. Greenwood got sixteen; the other five' Englishmen scored nothing. —The- Sydney..team comprises .-Baaaonnaa, Coa.tes (captain), Fainveather, Faithfull, D. Gregory,' E. Gregory, Hewitt, Iceton,' Lawrence, Moore, Oliver, Powell, Spaforth, She,ridan, Thomson, Tindall, Woods. An indisputable salmon has been caught in the Derwent. Sir Robert Officer netted one weighing over nine pounds. One weighing eleven pounds was afterwards caught. The Hon. W. T. Clark's will has been proved. He leaves to his eldest-son the whole of the Victorian property, on which over £IOO,OOO probate duty is paid. Thomas, the second son, only gets two poor farms in Tasmania, but the family is well provided for. Joseph, the youngest son, gets' the Tasmanian,- New Zealand, and South Australian properties. His widow has £3OO ayear.