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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 261, 7 March 1874, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

STJPPLhMENTArtY TELEftKAMS.

Dunedin, Friday, 8.30 p.m. MKLBOTTKNK. . The Rev. P. 3. Menzie?, the popular Presbyterian minister, is dead from consumption. Ar. the adjourned inquest on the-body of the lat<» Mr. Eeynolds. nothing was elicited as to who sent the explosive material. It is now believed t.bnt the deceased was experimenting in compounds. The Nubia left GaUe for Australia on the 18th of February, and will probably arrive here about the 12th of March. The Englishmen won the cricket match .lijaii.st the Victorian fifteen by seven wickets. The match excited no interest. Grace then batte.l with the Eleven in the field, and scored 126, but the fielding was very indiffe rent. The Eleven since played Lauhceston, where J4iey. made 247 in one inninga, Oscroft contributing, 9(i ; Q-. F. Grace, 45.; W. G\ Grace, 33; Junp, 33. The Tasmaniansin their. 6 ,, 5t innings only snored. 90-rten of their number making nothing. - In the second innings the eleven wickets went down for 112. After playing Hoba'rtown the Eleven return here, and then play the final match. The people hpre are heartily tired of cricket. SYDNEY. • Hume reiterates his story about Leitchard's relics having "been stolen from him, which nobody believes. . v The Palmer Eiver rush is oyer. , All returning. M any dying from starvation" and .-.exhaustion on the way. The township is deserted, an I provisions are scarce at' famine prices. The rivers are flooded. * , • 'lhie Adelaide 'Register" estimates that .870,0,139 acres are under wheat crop, being , 110,000 bushels less than last year. The ravei-age yield:is over 74," bushels to the /acre.'' The surplus-available for export'-is "IOS'.OODtonsV '' Ai| attack was_.made.by the blacks on Bar- ' ron's}Creek : tele'graph station when all were outsiHe enjoying a smoke.- Stapleton, the telegraph mast,-and Frank,- the lineman, were ..killed. Flint,, the-operator, anda.black boy werefalso seriously injured. . Next 'day' the natives reappeared in force, and were ..fired at, and one--killed.- Since then reinforcements have been sent there, and to' all 'the stations on the overland line. : CABLEGRAMS.

,• London, February 21.. Mt. Charles "Reed, the Chairman of the London School Board, has been knighted. '", r February 23. The opening competition at the wool sales was .well maintained, and- the prices .were well sustained. ' Greasy descriptions were eagerly sought after. The corn market is flat. The wheat supplies are' abundant. Money is easy.. The bank* rate of discount is three per cent. , ; A speculative purchase of New Zealand Hemp has caused a recovery in-the market.' February 24. . The Hon. Eobert Bourke has been ap-pointed-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Sir "Henry John Selwyn Ibbetson UnderSecretary for the H ome depa tment. Addcrley, the new President of the Board of Trade apd the Marquis of Hartington,

Chief Secretary for Ireland under the late-" -- administration, have been raised _to the -,; peerage. " _ ■ -- Barkley, Governor of the Mauritius, has-;---been created a G.C.K.B. " • '.-

The death is announced of Shirley Brookes, . the celebrated author and editor of ' Punch,* " and the Rev. Tnomas Binney, late pastor of ' the Weigh-honse Chapel, aged 76. The Emperor of Germany has written toEarl Russell, acknowledging receipt of the resolution passed by the St. James's Ball. meeting, sympathising with his conflict with, ultramontanism. The Emperor states he is firmly determined to battle with the clerical party without infringing on the free exercise - of religious opinion.

February 25. The additional appointments are:—Firat Commissioner of Works, Lord Gordon Lennox} Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir Michael- - Hicks ; Lord Chamberlain, the Marquis of Bath.

The Marquis of Westminster has been raised to a dukedom.

An unofficial report reached ihe Admirality stating that a battle took place «-n the 3lst of January at Aeronibjn, lasting twelve hours. The Ashantees lost heivily, and the British loss was also severe. Several officers were wounded

February 26th. The following additional appointments have been made :—Ball, Attorney-General of Ireland; Gordon,' Lird- Advocate of Scotland; Colonel Taylor, Chancellor of the Ducl.y of Lam-aster ; Scliter Booth, President of*the Poor Law Board ; Cav.*, Advocate-General ; the Hon. Egerton. Secretary of the Adin"ralty; Sir Massey Lopes, Civil Lord of the Admiralty; James Lowther, Colonial UuderSecrei ary ; Lord George Hamilton, Indian Under Secretary. A despatc:. has been received from General Wolseley, dated Coomassie, February 5, stating that he rea-hed theiv the previous day,, after five days' hard fighting, during which, the troops behaved admirably. Casualties—the British under three hundred killed an<V wounded. King Kae CaTK left the town, but is located close by, auu promised to visit Coomassie that day, and sign a treaty o£~ peace. Wolsely hoped to commence the return march to the coast on the next day, the 6th; - . DUK£T)Iif. —CITY BLECIION. Reeves ... - 588 Cargill ... 428 Isaac ... ... .. 56 Chapman 50 The Omeo is at the Bluff. The chief items, of news are as follows .-—The "Ministry is officially constituted. First Lord of ihe Treasury, Disraeli ; Lord Chancellor, Lord Cairns; President of the Council, Duke of Richmond; Lord Privy Seal, Earl of Malmesbury ; Foreign Secretary, Earl Derby; Secretary for India, Marquis of Salisbury ; Secretary for Colonies, Karl Carnarvon; Secretary for V\ar, Gathorne Hardy ; Home Secretary, R. A. Cross ; Chanceller of the Exchequer, SirStafford Northcote ; Postmaster-General, Lord John Manners ; First Lord Admiralty, George Ward Hunt; Attorney - General, Karslake ; Solicitor-General, Baggally; "Viceroy of Ireland, Duke of Abercorn. The Marquis of Normanby, Sir Alfred Stephen, C.B. (late Chief Justice, New South Wales), Sir James M'Oulloch, and John G'Shanhassy, have been appointed Knights Commanders of St. Michael and St. George. The British had to light two battles before reaching Coomassie. Our losses are severe—--300 killed and wounded. At Coomassie the. King promised to come in and sign treaty of , peace.