By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 262, 14 March 1874, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.)

Dunedin, Thursday evening. The Provincial Council has been summoned to meet on April 29th. Should no ' sickness occur, the Scimitar's passengers will be released on Saturday. Rose, a Surat passenger, fell into a threshing machine at Balclutha, receiving injuries from which Tie died in an hour and a-half. James Murphy was drowned by the upsetting of a boat at Port Chalnieis this afternoon. The tender of Gavin, for the erection of the Waitaki Bridge for £31,255, has been accepted. The University question has been settled by the acquiescence of the Professors in amalgamating with the New Zealand University. Arrangements have been perfected with the Professors by which schools and educational classes, whether boys or girls, maybe examined and, if competent, receive certificates of competency, the same as those granted by Oxford and Cambridge. LYTTELTON. Arrived.—Dilharer, eighty-seven days from London, with 207 immigrants, all well. No sickness. WELLINGTON. 1,150 immigrants are due here during the next six weeks. Brogden had to send to Oregon for sleepers for his railway contracts. AUCKLAND. Sullivan has been removed to the Mount Eden gaol, at Auckland, awaiting a favorable opportunity for getting him away. The Queensland Government have re quested the Grovernments of other Colonies to stop immigration to the Palmer River. LATEST CAB LEGE AHS. London. The Tichborne Claimant has been found guilty, and sentenced to fourteen years. The Alhambra arrived at Hokitika with cablegrams to tbe 3rd. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh arrived at London on the 12th, accompanied by the Queen. The Rev. Mr. Binney's funeral, at Abney Park, was attended by 5000 persons. Among those present were the Earl of Shaftesbury, G-eorge Stillman, Hillard Morley, M.P., Sir Charles Reid, and other public men. Addresses were delivered by Archdeacon Harrison, and the Rev. Henry A cton. Dean Stanley concluded the service at the grave. Paris. Ledru Rollin has been elected a deputy to the G-eneral Assembly. Madrid. General Moriones telegraphs that he has completely failed to penetrate the Garlist line, and says the position is endangered. Losses have beeu heavy, and reinforcements are urgently needed. The fall of Bilboa is imminent. . LATEST AUSTRALIAN. The cricket match, England v. Launceston, was won; by the English in one innings, with thirty runs to spare A letter received from YVarburton says the men were so reduced by famine that they could scarcely crawl a hundred yards Ireland, the actor, obtained £IOO damages from the ' Licensed Victuallers Gazette ' for libel in spying he wab a slovenly netor. At the adjourned inquest on the body of Reynolds f .he jury found a verdict of wilful murder, against Augustus Green. Committed on the Coroner's verdict. The verdict caused great surprise; ns tbe evidence against the accused was the slightest possible. In the Hobartown match the English scored 368 in one innings -G-. F Grace, 154 : Oscroft, 4-5 : Jupp, 4t. The malcli is likely to be a one-imiings one. , The Legislative Council of New South Wales have passed the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Bill with amendment. The Flintshire, with the Torres Straits mail, reached Singapore punctually. '.'/"■■-.■"'