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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 301, 4 December 1874, Page 3

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v CD JL (irom our own correspondent.) ■ ■- Dunedin, Tliursday Evening. Through an oversight, no proclamation was issued to postpone the meeting of Parliament, which had to be formally opened on Wednesday, and adjourned from day to day till the Governor arrives. At the Waste Land Board yesterday, upon the petition of the JSTaaeby miners, asking that sections 144, 147, 10, and 151 be withdrawn, it was stated, that it had been done a fortnight ago. AUCKLAND. The Governor landed at ten this morning. He was received on the wharf by the members of the Provincial and General Gavernments, the volunteers lining each side of the wharf. The oath was. administred by the Chief Justice. It is expected that the vernor will not leave till after Monday. The ' Star's'' London correspondent gives currency to a report in England, that Thomas Russell succeeds. Featherston as Agent-Gen-eral.: •. # . Per Hero, London, November 21st:—Mor derate demand for money. Foreign exchanges more favorable. Corn advanced to Is. 6d. Home deliveries, moderate ; foreign arrivals fair average for good qualities. Wool firm; French buyers operating ; Cape sorts are £d. to Id. lower; little business was done. * The Admiralty have ordered a special survey of the Fiji group. The ship Duchess of Edinburgh for NewZealand has returned dismasted. AUSTRALIAN. Sydney. In a water hole near Tocal the trunk of a man's body, has been discovered, . attached to a stone with a rope; and a human head, battered in has been found in another water hole ,t()0 yards distant. It is supposed that murder has been committed. The remains are decomposed beyond identification. The new Governor of Western Australia is a brother of Sir Hercules Robinson. Melbourne. i .. The trustees are likely to en the mu- 1 seum and picture gallery on Sundays. A reef has been struck at a depth of 645 feet, showing gold, in the Albion mine at? •Stawell. v . ■ ••• vvThe pioneer of a ne-.v line of steamers left London for VUlumrne oi\" November r>, viz.y ■ the Osyth, a new full-poorer scr-iw steamer, 3SJJ toii3 register: -The engines' '-arj capable of wording np to 25' JO horse po*ver. iSLre is illj .no-si po.vc-'i'f.il steamer ewv

placed in the Australian trade. She is expected to solve the problem of a forty-five days' voyage from the Thames to Hobson's Bay.

The first of M'Meckan and Blackwood's pair of new fourteen-knot steamers is expected in New Zealand about May next. St. Bathans, Thursday Evening. Mr. Ewing addressed the electors last night. There was a numerous attendance. A vote of confidence "was passed- ~ . At the Licensing Meeting held to-day, the following licenses were granted:—Thomas: Turner, Blackstone Hill, general license-. Edward Withers, Rough -Ridge, ~ general license; J, Jones, Welshman's Gully, transfer of general license; G. H. Smith and P. Kenny, St. Bathans, night licenses/ All the applications for bottle licenses were refused.