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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 302, 11 December 1874, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From'.'our own correspondent.) ■." ———♦——. Dunedin, Thursday Evening. Tenders for the Naseby Court House are to be called for immediately. The Provincial Government are to subsidise the amount guaranteed by the G-eneral Government. From Queenstown Professor Peters sent the following telegram : —" Our observations satisfactory. We observed two contacts.. Great many measurements, and 193 photographs." Th e Oyphrenes has arrived. Brings a large cargo, and passengers for Australia and New Zealand. Bev. Dr. Copeland has arrived. At the Lord Mayor'B banquet Disraeli referred 1 to-the annexation of Fiji as a proof that the Gorerntment would maintain a national Colonial policy. An extensive- loci-out in Lincolnshire is threatened. The farmers 'insist on a reduction of 3s. per week off the wages of tho farm hands. A terrible cyclone has occurred va Bengal,, which has caused the loss of 2000 lives, and many wrecks. The first attempt of the Prussian. Governr ment to have prießts elected by- their congregations has foiled—the congregations refusing. The English Agricultural Laborers "Union have adopted a proposal, submitted by the Misissippi deputation, to deposit 5,000,000' laborers to that State. The extensive emigration going on is creating alarm in Great Britain. The Municipality of Naples-propose to grant Garibaldi 6000- dollars annually; In the District Court, in Hutchison v. Proctor and Whitaker, judgment was given for the defendants. WELLINGTON. 9th December. The Maerewhenua case is : concluded in- the Court of Appeal, but the Court has intimated that judgment would probably not be given till the next Court night. 1.30 p.m.—The weather this morning wasmost unfavorable for the transit observations. No rain fell, but the sky was heavily overcast—only one momentary glimpse of the sun being obtainable since day-break. 2.35 p.m.—At half past one, with an ordinary telescope, Venus was seen to be just entering the sun's disc At twenty minutes to two she had fairly entered. At a quarter to two the sun was obscured by clouds. Dr. Hector reports it to have been a failure all over New Zealand. At the critical moment the sun was obscured. : CHRISTCHUKCH. Studholme intends to resign his seat for Kaiapoi. Bowen has issued an address to the electors, soliciting their suffrages. It is intended to bring forward a provincialist candidate to oppose Bowen, for the purpose of testing public opinion on the question, centralism v. provincialism; Major Palmer repoils from Burnham observatory the observation of the ingreßS was spoiled by clouds, which prevented any measures with the double, image'micrometer being made prior to the internal contact, and entirely h>d the planet from view for a. few seconds before the contact itself. Photographs of the near contact were impossible. About 14 minutes after the contact the sun showed a little brightly at intervals. A few photographs, most of tliem indifferent, were also secured, and at three the sun bpcame entirely hidden. Heavy rain set in at 3.30 p.m., and lasted till 4.30, when a little clearing set in, and the look of the sky to windward gave hopes that an observation of the egress (of immensely greater value than the ingress) might yet be secured; but the clouds.again gained the mastery. The sun was not seen from half-past three until some ten minutes after the end of the transit, when it shone brightly forth near sunset. The sub-stations at Grahamstown, Auckland, "Wellington, and Dmiediri met with the same bad fortune, both at the ingress and egress. The weather only failed us. * WELLTNGTf ST. The conviction of Dodd, second mate of the Oneco, has been quashed, on the grounds of want of jurisdiction. * -Reynolds' speech is generally considered satisfactory. His firm declaration. to retire from the Ministry if it favored the absorption of the land fund. His remarks were favorably commented on by the Press. St. Bathans, Thursday night. The transit of Venus was successfully: observed here. The weather was cloudy. The first and last contact were not visible. The Rev. Father Walsh has arrived. He was presented with an address of welcome by the Roman Catholic body. The excitement about the election is strong. The contest will ly beween Ewing and Armstrong; Leary's chance is considered hopeless. The weights for the Handicap have given satisfaction.; A successful meeting is anticipated. Mr. P. Hanrahan is the successful tenderer for the refreshment booth.