SUPPLEMANTARY TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 297, 6 November 1874, Page 3

SUPPLEMANTARY TELEGRAMS.

[The following appeared in owr xssuo of Saturday last: —] - (From our own correspondent)". Dunedin, Eriday, 8 p.m. The Alhambra is-at Hokitika,,with cabletelegrams to the_22nd. L -,- The German frigate Ancona has forcibly levied an indemnity,on the inhabitants of the Navigator Jslands for grievances of colonists. America sent the war steame'r Tuscarora there in consequence. The balance of the Victorian four per centT loan has been withdrawn.

The notorious Nena Sahib,' who played such an important part in the Indian Mutiny, has been captured. He is now imprisoned in the Palace of the Maharajah of Scinde. He confessed to being a political agent. The Australian Associated Banks'of Melbourne have taken up the balance of the Victorian, loan at a minimum of 90.

The body of Miss Pettit, who disappeared from East Melbourne five months ago, has been found in the Yarra.

The final payments for the Melbourne Cup ' show that twenty-six horses are left. They compose a good field! and include Lurline ' and Papapa. ' ' - The Agent-General telegraphs to Vogel that the Home Government intend giving a better ship than the Rosario for a trainingship to' New Zealand. The Sydney merchants are urging the Government to start a San Francisco service, independent of New, Zealand, via-Noumea. Intelligence has been received of the murder of the crew of the cutter Lapwmg, of Auckland, at Santa Cruz. H. M. S. Sandfly had a narrow escape. <■ Chapman gave an important decision'in re G. M. Bell and Wentworth, who, in June, lodged applications .with the Southland Land Board for landat 20s. 'the day before the proclamation raising the price to £3 was gazetted. He "holds'that'Bell is entitled to the land.- If the decision .is upheld, it means a loss of £20,000 to the Province.

Dyer was executed this morning He' died without a struggle The hour before the execution he made a statement, that, on July 9th, when excited by drink, but not intoxicated, he poured keroseue over the woman Bittersea, with the intention of frightening her into confessing certain matters. Had no thought of causing her death. To screen him *ho d d My tint the lcerosena vwis acci-de".<-allj spilt The J Star' states that it is, the intention of Sir George Grey to publish another paper on the eousnt itional position of the Colony Ho recomm. \\ la union with the old country;

and that there be a Secretary for State for each Colony," to reside in -"London, to-be-placed in direct communication with.the Imperial Government on all "matters affecting the Colony. CAOTERBURV. The transactions'■; for nine months wen? ended on June 30th last. The receipts were £1,023,700; of which £193,000 is from the ordinary account, and £813,000 from Land and Works, leaving a balance to the credit of the Province on June 30th of £1,023,700. The revenue returned from the railways during September was £7577, against £5205 for the same month last year.

,The Town Clerk of Roxburgh,. Mr. E. Morrison, committed suicide, by self, on Sunday evening last. At a meeting of the Cromwell Jockey Clußi< whs. resolved that the annual meeting beheld on Wednesday and Thursday, Deo.: 29th and 30th. £IOO in stakes are to be run for. We. understand that Mr. George Currie, of this town, is the successful tender«sr"for tieconstruction of the reservoir enbanknient in. Coalpit Gully, in connection with the MountIda Water Works'.

The quarterly Licensing, Meetings for districts o£ Ahuriri, Hyde- and Hindon will be held at the Court House,, Naseby, instead of at' the several places .advertised in our is-. sue of Friday-last. - " ,

The biggest gun in the world" is now- iircourse of manufacture at Woolwich' Arsenal. It is to weigh 80 tons, being twice the weight of any gun hitherto made. - Its charge will be3001bs of powder,, which will drive a projectile weighing I,6JOibs. through the best ironplates 20 inches thick, at 500 yards, and" through 16 inch plates- at 5,300 yards ; while it will throw al6 inch shell 10,300 yards or nearly sis miles Tlie trunnion pieceok the gun-weighs 18 tons, and is the largest - ever made at the' Arsenal. The cost of this death-, dealing instrument is erpected .to be abou' \ £BSOO.

Our correspondent, at St, Bathans sends - us the following,"- under 28th October:—"Malcolm M'Leod, while working in the Otago Goldmining Company's • claim at the Lagoon, St. Bathans, was struck by a lump of earth which rolled off the bank above him; and, for some time, the men working with him thought Mm killed.. The manager, Mr. Gilmore, at once ran to- the township, -and telegraphed for Dr. Pultnay, and, in a very few minutes afterwards, persons here were gratified to know that the -- Doctor was on the road; and, although his .horse was nearly beat up, he arrived here in a.iew hours,. or. almost as soon as M 'Leod's .friends, could have got. a horse ready to -post : to Naseby, thus convincing people, of. the extraordinary utility of telegraphic communication in cases of emergency. It appears that MlLeod,'-along with otheT bruises, tained a severe fraction of the lower vertebrae of the backbone. The Doctor thinks, however, that he will be right again in a few weeks; and recommends his removal to the District Hospital as soon as that may be dona with safety. Meantime, the poor fellow lies at Mr. Hanger's hotel, where he receives all the attention which can possibly he 'bestowed upon him.','