SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

\TRe- foWmmg. appeared-.' in. our issue of Saturday last:—]

(From our:own correspondent)'. Dimedin, Friday, S p.m. The following are the wights for the Dunedin Cup:—Tamburini; 9st 71b Castaway,. Bst 101b ; Traitor and, Flying Dutchman, Bst 71b ; Templeton, Bst 51b ; Yattpriua, Bst 21b; Atlas, and Mabel,. Bst; Pertrobe, 7st 131b ; Right Bower, 7st 101b; Sprit-sail, 7st 91b; . Tripoli, and TV ainui, 7st 71b ; Ngaro, Bangi,; and Guy Fawkes, 7st 51b; Somnambula, and 1 Hercules, 7st Sibßelle, 7sfc 21b;. JEarl of " Lynne, and Tui,' 6st 12lb; Boomerangs Both- - well, Ada gelding, and Medicus, 6st ' lolb ;: Kathleen, and Spray fillj, 6<t 91b ; Seabird,.. 6st 71b ; Bobby Burns, 6st 61b ;. Merryman,. 6st; Captain Cook, sst 12lb. Commenting upon the statistics- of 1873,just issued in New Zealand, the "Times' points out that the Government hare paid the - passages, wholly or in part, of 8754 immi-"-grants, without Colonial experience (1500 of' whom were children) during 1873 ; but that, for the same period, 4761 persons—the larger proportion being experienced colonists^ —bare left the - Colony. It attributes this result partly to the bad land arid mining laws. It - is estimated that the European population on December 31,1873, was 295,946.

Instructions have been- received, per the Mikado, that Sir James Fergusson must leave the Colony before his successor's arrival. This has caused great surprise. The G-overnor intended to go yachting until the Marquis of Normanby's arrival, then come ashore, takepart in the demonstrations in his honor and that of the new G-overi.or. Thereafter it was thought the more dignified ourse would be to detain the Mikado, and po home via San Franeisco, which was done, and. the Mikado sailed this,morning. Owing to the shortness of notice the attendance was not-large, but Auckland put on her holiday garb, and ba<Je_> him God speed very heartily.

: The weights for the Dunedin Cup will~He found in our lata telegrams. - ' : • Me. Logan, of Bendigo, has collected £l3o"' in Dunedin for the Cromwell hospital a. At a public meeting held at St.- Bathans - on "Wednesday night last, the retiring Hospi- - tal Committee was re-elected. Mr. Pyle deserves well of his fellowtownsmen at St. Bathans. His spirited pro- - - test against the arbitrary combination of the Banks, by offering 6d. an ounce more than they are giving, has at last caused the Bank of New South "Wales to offer the same— £3 16s. Mr. Pyle may be said to have fairlygiven to every producer at St. Bathans 6cL an ounce on all produced—no inconsiderable V - bonus on. the- produce of a prosperous dis--trict. , . -," People-taking land in the Berger- district complain loudly'-ofthe cost of -As • - there is not a resident surveyor in that district, any work is done-from the Clyde Survey 3 - ofßce, and the large- sum- of 4s. per'acre-is - ■ charged for mileage, in addition to,the" ordir n"ary:fees. On the face of it, there seems- to.- - be something wrong in such an enormous charge. A gentleman iyh"o lives at Coal' Creek informs us that the survey of a small ' block of land cost hiui £1 an acre.- The Go- : vernment, in giving their sanction to such aii enormity, instead of doing its best: to tate settlement, is adopting the most poweri ful measures. to retard it in the Benger dis- v trict. " •*- ---- - • Cromwell companies' success hare led ' to considerable speculation in that district. A company called the Bendigo Deep Level Quartz' Mining Company, limited, was started " early this month, capital, £IO,COO, in 40,000 shares; at ss. each. There has been some-' strange management in the affair. 6000 shares were placed in the hands of Mr. T.'l

Logan for sale in Dunedin, and, at a former meeting, a resolution was passed that these shares should have preference before any applications in Cromwell up i.o November sth, until an answer would be received from TMV - - Logan by telegram ; and Mr. G B. Douglas (one of the promoters) was instructed to-te-legraph to him at once. This had been done —and, no answer being received by Mr. Douglas, the_ shares were applied for, and the allotment paid in Cromwell. Jn the meantime, it seems Mr. Logan had telegraphed to Mr. Golclough, saying that these shai-es were sold; but no information of this was given to Mr. Douglas or-to tihepro. tem. manager, so that no knowledge was possessed by anyone in the district in connection with the concern except Mr. Colelough, of the sale of these shares. ■ Under these circumstances, therefore, - - it was finally decided that the shares should • be allotted to the parties in Cromwell who. had applied, and paid the allotment. - ■ In - Dunedin this sort of thing- was - not altogether believed in, and on Wednesday last iu that town, a meeting of gentlemen who subscribed shares in the Bendigo Deep Lead Quartz Mining Co.-, was held. It was unanimously resolved on Thursday, that the directors be informed that the- Dunedin shareholders insist " upon their right to the shares, and will take the necessary legal steps' to enforce theirclaim.