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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 290, 19 September 1874, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own' Correspondent.)

Duncdin", Thursday Evening. •M'Caughan, of "Victoria, has purchased Wentwovth'a station at Holtomiri, consisting of 30,000 ncres of freehold, for £90,000. TheHev. iVIr. Salrnond, Free Church, minister, of Forfarshire, lias beeu appointed Professor of Theology to the Otago "Universitv. The Anglican .Synod meets here 'on the 29tli. ' Hutchison prefers a claim of .6200 against the Government for injuries to Spritsail through the railway. Tt is rumored that O'Neill has resigned his seat for the Thames. The steamer Mapeka has been successfully raised. V The Peninsula Railway Company will have the line completed to Forburv in time for the March meeting. The Government will work

Mrs. Sam. Howard, well known here as an actress, died to-day. The. Otago is at the Bluff. AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, September 10. The political news is without interest. The Budget debate closed without a division. The Council have appointed a Committee: to consider a reform of that House 1 . _ A mption in favor of the resumption of assisted immigration was carried. The new tariff fees do not meet with general approval.. of importers have been held to protest against certain proposed charges, and the Chamber of Commerce has-expressed its disappointment at the charges. The Melbourne Cricket Club is likely to send a team.-to New Zealand this season. A good deal of interest is evinced over the Sydney races. On Saturday the Derby was won easily, by Sir H. Robinson's colt Kingsborougli; Tait's Melbourne, second; and Eobinson's Heredale, third. There have been disgraceful scenes in the Tasmanian Assembly. The Rev. Martin Crane,. of Dublin, has accepted the Eoman Gatholh Bishopric of Sandhurst..

The Albion arrived this morning with "a supplementary English mail. - ■ • .'. ' Sydney, Sept. 10. At tlie Randwick races to-day, Sweet Briar won thc Sliortß, Sir H. Robinson's Neaburne second. - For the Ladies Mile Baroness was first.. -Sterling won the • Metropolitan, with ijoldsborough second, and Maid of Avenel third. .For: the last mentioned race nineteen started—time, 3 min. 36 .sec. Madame Croddard .will visit New Zealand in i.bout three'weeks. Governor Robinson proceeds to Fiji on the 12rh. ' ■■■,.■ • -■ ■■ ■ . Numerous, writs have oeen issued against :Hall oil account of the Californian service. ' Sam uel is arranging for steamers to carry the Californian mails for the next two CABLEGRAMS. . London, Sept. 1 The Australian mails via Brindisi and San Francisco were delivered yesterday. -.'■■■ ■ Sept. 3. Sir George Berkeley has been appointed to the Governorship of Western Australia. The Austrian Arctic Polar Explorers arrived at Norway after abandoning the expedition. Tegettoff reports travelling in sledges over mountain ridges beyond latitude 80deg. The, Great Eastern, has completed the laying of the new Atlantic cable. ■; The Marquis of Ripon haa adopted Catholicism, and resigned the Grand Mastership of Freemasons. -

Arrived. —Robert Burns, Dallam Tower, and Margaret Galbraith from New Zealand. ... At the wool sales 116,000 bales were sold, principally to the Home Trade. The tone of the market is now weaker. Balme and Co., woolbrokers, report of the series:—An advance, for superior scoured fleece, .Id.; low scoured, l£d. to 2d.; washed half-bred,' Id. to lid.; greasy half-bred, OAd. told.-; creasy merino, 0-id. - "

Madrid, September 4. ■■■■:. i The Zabala. Cabinet have 'resigned, and a new Ministry has been formed; with Sagasta' as Premier; Minister for the Interior, Begayr. The other , portfolios remain unchanged. The Carlists have abandoned Pingeerda. Sept. 5. .The-Carlists at Guteria,j,in the north, fired upon a German gunboat, which replied by . sending twenty-four shells into the town. - Berlin, Sept. 8. An' extensive conflagration at Meiningen destroyed half the town, and rendered 3,000 people houseless. New, York, Sept. 1. The Committee, having investigated the charges; preferred by Tilton against Henry Ward Beecher, acquitted Beeeher. liATBST DTOEDIN. The 'Times' special• re Yog el' 3 meeting says : —The curiosity to see Yogel was very great, so few of his constituents knowing him personally. This led to their cons'tantly rising in'expectation as the people entered on the Btage, and at last, as the Premier. entered in the crowd, all stood up, crowding overreach other to catch a view. Vogel mistook it as designed .for a compliment, especially as there was considerable cheering, and appeared much pleased. The feeling of the meeting at the beginning was a compound of anger and curiosity. Russell made a< mistake at starting by speaking of Vogel not only as ame ber, but as holding in his power-the Government of the country: There were loud and angry cries of dissent to this... Yogel rose, and was applauded by knots of people scattered about, but was coldly by the mass. He was gaining ground when he unhappily mentioned ■ Gillies, whose name was greeted with three cheers.: This angered Vogei, who lost temper. ? He maintained * '.hut a man must travel through the length;of the -:Colony before he would be able to give, an intelligent vote on polities.: O'Rorke's name drew more cheers. Yogel then got worse, and told the constituency he could do without them, as every town iin the Colony had asked him to stand. They rdid not need to be told that, it:.was I somewhat an- honor to have a Minister as ai member. He was not likely to ask their suffrages again: and he wanted rest frorn his | very arduous labors. He had a burning de- | sire to see them in (he same prosperous eondiI tion as the Soulli before quitting the scene of | his labors. He then gradually recovered his | temper, and got on very well towards the end | He wound up with a peroration, showing his I usual good tact. Although his speech before | had been contemptuously defiant, he sat down I amidst applause. Vogel spoke out plainly on | the land fund. He said it not to be i touched, and directly contradicted Wood's statement that he had said to the contrary.