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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 268, 25 April 1874, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From oar orra correspondent.)

Dunedin, Thursday Evening. Donald Heid has been appointed a member of the Waste Land Board, hi the room 'of John Keid, resigned. _ Another case of scarlet fever ha 3 broke out m Quarantine Taland. danger is anDrehended. The following table, sin wing tho census returns for 1874, has been suppled by Y<Sperry:—Dunedin, 15.571: Waifcaki, 7 01(3Dunstan, 3,515; Mount Ida, 2,891; Waikouaiti, 3,239; Port Chalm.-rs, 4437; iioalyn 4,280; Caversham. 4,401; Taieri, 4 55'»'-* Bruce, 4,447; Tuapoka, 4,708; Clutha, 3,'132J Wakatipu, 4,69] ; Waikaia, 2,356; Livei-car' gill, 2,4;9; Mataura, 4.770; Kiverton, ;j,2SI- . Wallace, 1,227. Total, 84.822. The total population in 1871 was 69,492; thus making *the increase 15,330. CABLEGE.IMS. _,, . London, April 13. Lie remains of Living-Lone have arrived. Don Carlo* has rejected proposals mud* by Marshal Serrano with a view to the cessation ot hostilities. The H"r-;uch press have been forbidden to sl.tiiL-\ -h.> S..pio llnato Tli.» Le«i6ii.ii»tii and Bu.->nii:iii.n» or-an« ha>e been warned acinar. miiiinjr 9tiit.-iu.-nti, h-i deny its irrecoverabiiitv. ' AUSTKALIAN. nrr • * j. , . Brisbane. Umoial telegrams from Cooktown, state that several score of miners rushed the steamer for free passages. The police were required to clear the ship. About three score assaulted the police. An excited mob, num. Bering 1,000, watched the affray from the shore. A number rushed aboard, unshipped' the staging, and thus cut off communication from the shore. After a struggle, three of the ringleaders were arrested, and order restored. , . Heavy rains have fallen during the last 1 eight days. ' The creeks are flooded, and the j roads will ,be unfit for traffic for some time. . w-i ,J, , T , Melbourne. , Wiley arid kelson, two of the mutineers of , ship Satsuma were brought before the Court , to-day. They r-onfessed their guilt, and said that the men made the mate drunk, tied him down, and threw all the rifles snd firearm? overboard. Only fire men went into the boat. Tho following official telegram was received by the Colonial Secretary from the Queensland Government:—Telegram from: Police Magistrate at Cooktown, states: -""Please make public, ■ with a view, if possible, to stopping present rush. Three days rain, almost without intermission. With such rain the people at Cooktown (nearly four thousand) can never get on nor -back. The- weather prevents those determined to' reach the I aimer from and want of money keeps many who would rather return south. Government will try, by every means, to stop people from coming here and crowding into a-place where -they will do nothing; and which they cannot get out of. • More people are here than circumstances justify. WELLINGTON. The Chairmin of the Licensing Bench warn.vl ;ill yon/> selling ailuho rut ed iquor' that the license w-juld bj wineidlel. TIM A lib'. _ At the Licensing Court, vi'itei-jay-.thrco petitions from the Good Templars 'we're all rejected, sir no*-, h lv in<r signatures O.ilv one petiti >n h i<i *l, , V U n «vi.r tht) require.! quaulity. Two-tuirds were not oroperly witnessed. * ' QuuiiSvroiTs. Malawiian, brewer, was thrown out'of his cart near Franktown, mid l a y for t.vo hours before discovered. Hi- j s dangerously injured. The horse bolt el. The meeting in reference to the WintonKmgston line was a supces». Resolutionwere adopted urging the Government to-call for tenders for.-the other sections of the line, us the country and n-iSuro ar •■ favorable to commence at both ends. It is reported that patents from Cromwell proved now chum Chinese. The hoax cuu-ed a good deal of alarm, but did good. The bad now 3 from the Palmer has completely checked the exodu*. DUNEDIN. The City election to-day resulted as fol-lows:-Wales, 632; Barton, 542; Grant, 39. At the Magistrate's Conrc Thomas, the well known quartz-reefer, waarfiae-l £5 for attempting to hold communication --with the prisoner Belcher. The Port Chalmers Bench refused to grant any bottle licenses. A special meeting of tho Education Board was held on Wednesday, to consider the report of the scholarship examiners. The William D.v-ie's imrrdyranrs have been engaged at the following 'rates .—Married couples, C6oto £SO; bakci-3 and conks,-• fiSO lo £o0; general farm servants, £4S to £6O- - general servants, £3O to £4O; day laborers Bs. to 9s per day. With the exception of the day laborers they have all found emploj-ment. The railway returns for the month of March amount to £2,375 17s. AUCKr.,VM->. : A block of land has been purohasud bv «ho Government from \h. flood about "four >m!t-s from Cambn and o-nhiin-i doi-urnl' fchousan 1 ncros of nii>iTmfi<-->it land. The Star ->f »1„. s••>.!' |...;ttculars'of a devastating hurri-wio »i Yassawaa Group. M.-nrly nil lh-> .plantation! suffered. building- w-re blown down.