By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 267, 18 April 1874, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From otfr own correspondent.)

Dunedin,'Thursday eveninoThe City of Dublin and the Durham nave arrived from London.

Honeywell was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to six months' imprisonment' He complained that medical evidence on his behalf was not called. The Judge advised him to properly represent the matter to the Government.

Toomey, charged'with assault and robbery, was acquitted. The civil list comprises six cases, including one for breach of promise of marriage. ° J f^ nso ° tele gi-aphs to the Superintendent that the Council of the ]S T ew Zealand University agrees to apply for an amended Act. lhe University remains the examining body The governing body to consist of a Senate of twenty-six members, to be appointed primarlly by the Governor; the vacancies are afterwards to be filled up alternately by the Governor and ttie Senate from nominations to be made .by the graduates when they number thirty The Senate to meet at the seats ot the chief affiliated institutions There were 113 nominations for immigrants sent by the outgoing Suez mail. + u M oni? toSh^r trial has been Postponed till the 20th, and-Long's till the 27th Hollovvay left yesterday for ChristShurch. lhe chief mate of the barque Omega has been fined £IOO, which was mitigated to £25 tor smuggling rum at the Bluff. The Committee on harbor improvement have reported finally, and say there is but one opinion amongst professional men as to the desirability or feasibility of improving the harbor so as to enable all vessels entering the heads to, come to Dunedin. The estimated cost is from £123,000 to £160,000; and tne time from two to three years. + i, T^ e Ci *y £ ouncil has raised the salaiies of tn e lown Clerk and the Surveyor to £4OO. •I? e . H , utt railwa y was opened for traffic without demonstration.

The ship Dorette has arrived at Auckland. She brings 251 immigrants. There were several cases of scarlet feVer during the last ten days before her arrival, which will cause a short detention in quarantine. The Claud Hamilton took seventy passengers from Greymouth for the Palmer rush, and refused sixty at Hokitika. There is little doubt but that Sullivan left Auckland, but the authorities keep his destination a strict secret. The report that he left lor Jingland originated .from the fact of a passage taken by him in the Hindosran, but the agents, on learning the character of the passenger, returned the money. At the O'hristcljurcii Supreme Court John Wilmliurst, late surgeon of the s)ii D Isles of the froujh, was convicted of misusing medical comforts. His counsel argued that the medical comforts were placed under the surgeon s disposal, and that, although there was waste, therewas no larceny'. The Jud»e de-' ferred sentence,, pendingrthe decision Sf the Appeal Court on - " ' .-•■-' . The population of Southland is 11,837, being 3,000 of an increase.