By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 296, 30 October 1874, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our owircorrespondent.)

Dunedin, Thursday Evening. The case of Dodaonv.' Macirodrew has resulted in a verdict for"t.he"'plnintiiF,, Damages, £2OO. '■ _ .>'■:-

A. fire took place at PaluiersLon-tliis morning which destroyed two shops, So purliculars. ' % . Bathgate has reserved his. decision in the whole of the cases against the publicans -for having two bars, and also in the'case-against the owners of the Comet. . \. ...

- The result of the Board of Inquiry,- re-Bran-don, is that he be lined, and reduced £IOO a-year, and orderi'll to hold hi'rtg?lf in' readiness to leave Wellington at a day's .no-, tice. -

|' Fifty-three Colonial Balnk' shares changed hands at Ib. discount. ' ' ■ '

Middleton and Co., .Oainaru, are the, smc" cessful tenderers for the Waitaki coutracfc on the Oamaru-Waitaki Bailway for £2609.

The residents of Outratn are agitating for a branch railway. - v The Mosgiel Woolen Factory have declared - a dividend of ten per cent.' There is now every. hope of the" ultimate complete recovery of the girl Mary .Hall, who was eo murderously assaulted some months ago by the man Brennan. The schooner Pearl," from Fiji, brings a special despatch announcing ' that the cession of the islands had been effected, and the British flag hoisted on the-JLOthof October. The cession took place on the. 30th September at 3f asova, two mile > from Levuka. .Maafu, who stands next to the King, haß not yet decided what course he will adopt, but it is believed he will offer little or no opposition. Robinson, after the, cession, requested the government of the windward islands,, where Maafu resides, in the same manner as previously. Charles Dyer, convicted of the murder of Eliza Battersea, is to be executed on Friday. WELLINGTON. The tender of Mr David Proudfoot, of Dunedin, for the Hook contract on the Tirnaru and Waitaki Railway, has been accented for £34,852. St. Bathans, October 28th:

A man named either M'Leod or M'Lareu was dangerously hurt this afternoon through a fall of earth while working at a water race for the Otago Company at Lagoon Terrace, Surface Hill. Dr. Pultney, of Naseby. was sent for. Very little hopes of the man's recovery are entertained. >