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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 270, 9 May 1874, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

Dunedin, Friday, 8.30 p.m.

It is understood that a requisition has been got up asking Gillies to lead the Opposition to the Government proposal to sell pastoral land in blocks. If he declines, Bastings will be the leader. A majority is probable in either case.

• Hallenstein is said to be-Reid's Goldfields" Secretaiy. Bastings retains his seat at the Waste Lands Board.

Sir Dillon Bell's application to purchase lands in Shag Valley has been referred to the Naseby Land Board; The Cyphrenes received prompt despatch, only being seven hours in port. >

243 nominations for immigrants have been forwarded by the mail.

Mr Gillon, the editor of the ' Post/ was entertained at a- dinner, and was presented t. ith a testimonial and purse of sovereigns by the publicans of Wellington, in recognition of his journalistic services. - " Lemon, the General Manager of the Telegraph Department, is perfceting a system of his own for sending two messages simultaneously upon one wire. Experiments have been successfully tried between Wellington ' and Napier. Very little business has been transacted by the Government.

In answer to questions it was said the Government intended to introduce an Amended Road Ordinance, only making important amendment.

They did not intend to ask power to vote by proxy. The House adjourned at 3.

The names of no less than 243 persons are objected to, as not being entitled to have their names retained on the list of voters for the electoral district of Lake Wakatipu. Lettebs from- Livingstone to Stanley are in possession of the American Consul at Zanzibar. .All Livinpstone's papers and discoveries, sealed and addressed to .the Secretary -of State, are in possession of Mr Lang." Of "his death it is reported that, on May Ist. he took to hi 3 bed, and on the 4th became insensible, and died at midnight. Wnen fi-.st seized he said, he intended to change everything for ivory, and push forward to En.land. Thu recent incendiary firing of stacks in the Queenstown and Arrow d is! riots appears to be spreading to other quarters. Yesterday information was received in Naseby that, on the preceding even'ng, two large and valuable stacks of oats on Mr. Preston's station, TLyeburn, were discovered to be in flames. The fire, fortunately, was confined to the two stacks in which it originated, those adjoining narrowly escaping. The origin of the fire is unknown. Mr. Preston's loss is, we understand, covered by'insurance. The police are investigating the circumstances.

A SfiMl-official announcement .was made in a Wellington paper i hat dullivanwill reach England probably in a few weeks. The ' IndepenJent' justifies the course the Government took iu the matter as u,3ual and proper, and says, if newspapers had a juster conception of the merits of the case, Sullivan would not have been shut out from proceeding to San Francisco. The authorities there would have bpen acquainted of his coming and charactei, just as the English authorities are already made acquainted. The Government adopted the course only after the case hud received the highest consideration possible to give it in the Colony. Attiots, in the ' Leader," says :—" There is a sick bed in Melbourne round which a strange interest centres. A man, the foremost in his profession—general, genial, and unselfish—one whose name is familiar in hundreds of households, and upon whose verdict cf life or death thousands have hung with .straining ears in the years that are past, now lies stricken with an unknown disease, and, as I hear the tale, the medical ekill of Europe, and of this city is alike unable to determinehis ailment. He lies sick to death in the prime of his manhood, and the sorrow of bis friends is increased .by ihe tho mystery of the malady that baffles the skill of the physicians. Is healing really a science, and can it tot offer any remedy to stay the sufferings of one of its most earnest votaries ?"

WxceemngliY good news cornea from the Cardrona, to tho efi'ect, namely, that several of the companies working on the deep lead havestruck first-class gold. Details will be found in alettermanother column from a Cardrona correspondent, but every day apparently - the finds are extending. Writing a d-.iy laier than that on which his letter is dated, the same correspondent says : —" I had just posted my letter to you, when I was informed that today (Wednesday, the 29th) the Great Extended Company, in working down the dip, Kave Btruck payable gold, at the rate of about three ouuees to the pick. This is almost certain to continue, and the company haTe a nice winter's work cut out; This news is all the more impoitant from the fact that the further to the eastward the ground is proved payable the greater becomes the value and extent of this place as a Groldfield."—On Saturday again, we are informed by a gentleman who was at Cardrona on. that day, another company—the Band of Hope succeeded in striking the gutter. One of the men .took out no less than four ounces .for a morning's work. Several of these companies, it may be mentioned, are at work upon the ground over which the litigation with Mr. Cottar took place some little time ago.—' Cromwell Argus.'

We reprint the following letter on water pollution from the Hon. 8.. Campbell, of Otekaikej to the Editor of the,' Guardian ': —" I observe that in his Honor's address to the Provincial Council he alludes to the impending conflict between the miners and others' interested in the pollution of water. As far as the Maerewhenua case is concerned the-fol-lowing are the facts: —Messrs; Borton and M'Master, who own a large block of freehold land adjacent to the Maerewhenua Hirer, wished, in November last, to wash their sheep, a3 they bad been in the habit of doing for years past. They requested the miners above theru to suspend' their operations for three weeks, and in the meantime they offered to employ,,them on the station, the number of miners actually at work being about 25. This mo<l«ra e request was' declined. A much larger question, ho.vever, arises in connection -with this case than the loss they maintain they have incurred this lowed that, for the sake of a small Ctoldfleld like this; a large area of fertile country shall be rendered useless and uninhabitable, because- a few men wish to mine for gold? 1 have-no hesitation in saying, that the- land referred to would grow annually many' thousand tons of grain, and, instead q£ being washed away and made a. desert of, it would eventiially became n prosperous settlement.. The Booner the miners begin to recognise- tha.t their interest is not the only one "in the Colonr the bet> ter, and that other interests of a more permanent character demand the pretention of th.e

State. How would the citizens of Dum-dhi like to hare their "water rendered unfit for use ? Then, if not so, why should the settlers who will shortly be located in the Maerewhenua Valley be compelled to drink dirty, water? The subject is one of considerable importance, and can only be legislated on if ap.-p-oached on both sides in a spirit of conceasion."