By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 281, 25 July 1874, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.)

Dunedin, Thursday Evening. William Arrow, proprietor of the Crown Hotel, Caversham, died suddenly last night from excessive drinking. The 1 prize firing will be held this year as usual. -

Turnbull acts as Provincial Secretary during Eeid's absence, vice MacKellar, resigned. By the new Licensing Act quarterly meetings are to be held as heretofore, and the Government appoints not more than seven or less than three persons as a Licensing Court. The appointments to he for two years. The ship Sam Mendel has arrived from London after a passage of sixty-nine days from land to land. This is the quickest pas sage on record. A-large number of Councillors will be nominated to^mon-ow.

. The report of Brooks, the produce merchant, being lost in the .snow was incorrect. "He returned home yesterday. The Cyphrenes, with the San Francisco mails, arrived at Auckland yesterday morning, but her news has not been telegraphed as the line is down. Kanisay has been elected Mayor by a majority of thirty-four, the .result being—-Ram-say, 1,106; Walter, 1,072. There was great excitement. The Ofcago. is at the Bluff: ' NELSON.' Charlotte Eosclcy, landlady of the Bay View Hotel, has been found dead under sus picious circumstances. A Coroner's inquest has been held, at which the jury, aftqr an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict of wilful murder against Norman Roseley, deceased's husband, and against William Vineyard, his barman, as an accessory after the deed. The body was terribly'bruised about the head and face. • The medic vl evidence was to • the effect that death had been produced by the rupture 1 of a blood-vessel in the head, causing pressure on the brairi: The rupture was caused by a blow behind the ear. AUCKLAND. The Supreme Court, was occupied all day with the case of J. S. M'Farlaae v. Harris, junr. The evidence generally related to the manner in which the iuforih.-itioiis were laid. John M'Leocl, a Justice of the Peace, and formerly a member of the G-jueral Assembly, before whom the informations were sworn, deposed, in reply to questions by tlie Judee, that he would riot put much faith in MTavInnp's slnliMiuMits on o:iih. His knowledge of M'Purlin-e's commercial and political influences led him to believe M'Farlane was a dangerous man. The case is not concluded.

CABLEGB-UIS. London. On the discussion on the Archbishop of Canterbury's Bill for the suppresionof the ritualistic practices in the Church of England, Gladstone opposed it, as a dangerous measure, and thought that, a judge should be appointed to institute an inquiry. .Lord Barrington, a Conservative, has been unseated for Rye, on petition. Mr. W. Stanton, Liberal- member for Stroud, who was petitioned against, has been declared elected. . Forged marginal credits on the National Bank of Scotland are being circulated from San Francisco, and_may reach the Australian Colonies. * ' Paris. The Government .has informed the Committee of Thirty, that MacMahon insists on the right of the dissolution of the Assembly, and the appointment of a portion of the Upper Chamber.'. The Constitutional debate comes on next week., .' " Berlin'. An attempt was .made to assassinate PrinceBismarck while travelling in an open carriage in.the neighborhood of Kisseugen. lie was fired at, and was slightly injured in the w>ist. The attempted assassin was immediately ar rested, and found to be a young man unknown. A disturbance amongst the peasants has taken place in East Prussia, arisiug from the operation of a New Districts Eegulation Law. Madrid. The Carlist General Dorregarry has shot several Republican prisoners, and announced his intention to carry on war without mercy. ■ MELB IUKSTE. The revenue for the year amounts to £4,152,000, being the largest yet obtained., and exceeding the Treasurer's estimate by £300,000. The Customs, public works, and miscellaneous items show a large increase; the territorial shows a falling off, owing to the fact of the Government having withheld sales of land by auction. The Chief Secretary has suffered a relapse, and is confined to his bed. The Treasurer makes his financial state- ] merit on Tuesday next. A testimonial of sympathy has been presented to Ruperti Green, lately acquitted at bis trial for the Queen-street explosion case. - A correspondent writing to the 'Argus,' states that the Rev. Robert Fleming, late of Otago, was. refused recognition in Victoria as a_ preacher. No reason for this has-been assigned by the Home Mission Committee of the Presbyterian Church. Gavin Casey, surgeon at Brighton, was committed by the Coroner for twenty-four hours, for contempt in giving evidence at an inquest. SYDNEY. A case of small pox at Newcastle terminated fatilly. The barque Sierra Nevada and the brig S. H. Peake came into collision twenty miles south of Newcastle. The brig was struck amidships, and sank in two minutes, but the crewwas saved. ♦ ■ LATEST PARLIAMENTARY. (From a correspondent.) Wellington, July 21. - The Gold Duty Repayment Ordinance disallowance was because of technical objections and imperfections. The Government say the object of the Council is attainable by another mode of procedure, and - that they have no objection to the repayment itself. The sum should have been in the Appropriation Ordi- , nance: The miners have been sold by the Provincial Executive.