By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 277, 26 June 1874, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

From our own correspondent.)

Dunedin, Thursday Evening.

At the Waste Lands Board meeting yesterday, the Municipality's application to have an area reserved for a back entrance to the Town Hall, was agreed to. The Superintendent has gone South to turn the first sod of the branch railways. The Lochawe has arrived at Auckland from after a splendid passage of seventyseven days, with 367 immigrants. The Otago University granted its first degree of B.A. to Williamson of Wanganui.

The Canterbury Provincial Council refused to give the Superintendent power to dismiss his Executive during the session. They also rejected the proposal to hand over the licenses to the Municipalities. An. Alexandra telegram states thit the aukati is now broken.

The Home Agent has been instructed to make a shipment of salmon ova direct to the Bluff.

The delay in accepting the tenders for laying the permanent way of the branch lines was occasioned in consequence.of the General Government not having yet replied to the Province's application for the loan of rails,-so as to assimilate these lines with the main trunk line.

Major Richardson, in acknowledging*the receipt of £204 for the Scott Scholarship Fund, says he cannot understand how, in a Province where Scott's countrymen predominate, such a small sum should be raised.

. There is no sign of the Omeo or the City of Adelaide.