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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 278, 3 July 1874, Page 3

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Dunedin, Thursday Evening. The customs revenue collected in Duuedin financial year ending June 30 amounted to or.er £350,000. The Turarua is at Hokilika. She brings cablegrams to June 22nd. The obituary list iuoluies the Ilev. J. M. Belle w. The -failures are reported of Snrlgrove and Company, Mark I jane merrhnnts, for £350,000, and a Belfast Linen Manufacturing lirm for nearly a million. ■ ' v : Wool continues firm. The Turkish ship JCars sank in the Sea of Marmora. There were 320 people drowned. The Agricultural Union have resolved on a vigorous course of action to defeat the lockout, and'ltave invited Arcli to take laborers to Canada. -

The House of Lords' judgment in the Mordaimt divorce case authorises the continuance of the divorce proceedings. The cp ale has been successfully laid from Lisbon to Pernambuca

The Paris Assembly have rejected further important clauses in .the Municipal Bill; but

the Government proceeded with, the measure, and claimed the right to nominate Mfyors. The Assembly eventually adopted an amendment, by 358 to 329, prolonging for two years the Government prerogative of nomination. • '

The Pope, in receiving the congratulations of the Sacred College on the anniversary of his accession, said he had refused a proposal from high personages for reconciliation with the King of Italy, because any concession he believed to be equally injurious to Church anl society. Garibaldi is seriously ill at Caprera. AUSTRALIAN.

( The Torres Straits new steamer Flintshire was totally wrecked at Cleveland Bay. All on board were saved. Arabella Goddard and Blondin were passengers, and were in an open boat all night. They lost all their effects. It is doubtful whether the vessel will be saved. This is the second that has been lost since the inauguration of the service. : The steamer Easby and the schooner Mera have arrived. They are intended to trade between Dunedin and Newcastle. The Easby was carried by a current to King's Island, but saw the light in time. The Mongol made the run to Hong Kong in eighteen days. ■ Dibbs and Co. of Sydney, who were insolvent eight years ago, have paid the creditors in full. ' . DUNE DIJT. The City of Adelaide arrives Here early to-morrow.

The new ship Dunedin, eiglity-six days out from London to Lyttelton,-with 500 immigrants passed the Otago''Heads yesterday. All well. There were fourteen deaths on the voyage. ; . .

• The trial.trip was made to-day on the railr way from Napier to Waitangi. ■ The Bank returns for the quarter show an increase of about two millions out on loan beyond the amount in June, 1573. f . About 200 persons were present .atf ',tlie turning of the first sod of tke Waireka'■branch line of railway to-day. The Superintendent' and Mr. Reid were present. ."<■ r There is to be a banquet at Oamaru tonigh fc. h ■ The Albion is at the,-; Bluff with the Suez mail, after a rapid runVpf f6ur cllays and sixteen hours. • u

One of the principal iterus.is'tlie defeat of Plimsoll's Merchants.' Shipping' Surrey Bill by 170 to 173-—the Grovei'nmenfc opposing: * Disraeli.and Derby spoke at the Merchant Tailors' Banquet. The former defended the Church as an institution of the country, and said the Conservative policy would be ; progressive improvement for the people. 'Derby said that European affairs were more and more tending to quiet. : The Primate's Bill for the prevention, of ritualistic practices in the Church has passed the House of Lords.

[The following appeared in our issue of Saturday last:—] Accidentally our note of the supper at Mr. Horswell's hotel was omitted in our edition of yesterday. Mr. J. Samson and Mr. Bivers are the candidates at present in the field for the office of Mayor of Alexandra. We learn from St. Bathans that the miners in that locality were last week; as in jNaseby, fairly frozen out of their ciuirns. • Me. Cox, of Clyde, has let the Port Phillip Hotel for a term of years to a Mr. ilucldleston, a late arrival in the Colony. Mr. M'Kkllak was to address the electors at Cromwell last night." What the new Goldfields Secretary will have to say will no doubtbe eagerly looked for. ■ /

, Mr. L. W- Btjsch desires to return his sin-' pere thanks to those gentlemen : who assisted in saving his property at- the late. lireAd vt.

■ ■■■■ The workmen are proceeding with considerable despatch in the erection of the telegraph, poles and wire between ISTaseby and: St.- Bathans, having reached the Wetherburn crossing.

A private letter received in Dunedin states that the hairless horse Caoutchouc has arrived in San Francisco, and is causing some little stir there. He was landed in splendid condition, and was " playing " to crowded houses.

lit speaking, on the 12th, to a vote for the improvement of the Kakanui Harbor, Dr. •Webster stated that tlie New Zealand Meat Preserving Company intended to establish a sugar,manufactory at Kakanui, if tlie facilities . for shipping at that port were increased.

■•The tenders for the ■■Government auction sales-were as follows : —Mr. Faehe, two per cent. for any amount in Clyde district. Mr. Chappie, sales in Clyde district, under £3OO, fiveiper rcent.; £3OO to £SOO, four per cent.; over, £SOO, two and a half per cent. Mr Chappie, for sales in Naseby district, under £3OO, ten per cent.; between £3OO and £SOO, seven and a half .per cent.; over £SOO, four per cent. :Mr. Inder, .sales at Naseby, Hill's Creek, St. BathauSji Macraes, Hyde, and Hamilton; up to £SO, five'per cent.; £SO to £IOO, four per cent.; £IOO to £250, three and a half per cent.; £250 to^£soo, three per cent.; over £SOO two per cent.

The ' Tuapeka Times' is.righteously indignant at the expenditure of inland revenues on the coast thus :. of Duliedin it asserts fearlessly much of the money mat ought to have.Bebestowed on the up-coun-try roads has bde^ expended mainly on Dunedin and its environs, jThere are public works about Dunedin thaH ..However much they may have adorned the city, have, in the infant state of the country, been comparatively useless. Thousands'of pounds for example were expended on a new post office that never became a post office, and is now neither " fish, flesh, nor good red herring:" Nearly £200,000 has been expended on a railway between Dunedin and Port Chalmers, and. before it has been tested, or breathing time given to the Province, Dunedin came forward -again and demanded £250,000 for the deepening of the Dunedin Harbor, and for which Dunedin would not consent to be.rat.ed in case of need, thereby shewing its want of faith in the scheme, and creating another unjust claim on the landed estate of the Province. Now, this is only a tithe of what Dunedin has claimed and is still claiming at the expense of the. rest .of the country ; nay, we have no hesitation in saying it is being done by robbing iihe country .of what ought to be expended in the localities from which the moneys have been withdrawn.