SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 303, 18 December 1874, Page 3

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

.:_ {The following appeared hi onr issue of,' Saturday last .-—] (TTrom our own i*orr<*Bponi3ent)v Dimedin, Friday, 8 p.m; Per Claud Hamilton, at the Bluff:— London.-Dec. 2. Attendance at the wool sale's declining competition becoming languid. 60,000 bale* sokl, and 25U0 withdrawn. . The Budget speech was well l—ceivedT The steamer Lu Pl.it a, with/the Souths American cable-on board,, foundered off TTshant.. It is feared sixty persons have perished: The Benchers of Gray's Inn have unani- • mously disbarred Dr. Kenealy for his conducfein the Ticuborne ease. ATJSTEAUAN. The population of Victoria is 803,000. Judge Fellows is about to retire. Suez mail expected in Melbourne 12th insti - The conference of stock inspectors jecom... mend that the prohibition on imported stock should be rescinded. Oukabau lias arrived in Sydney. . Q.TJBEKSUSS. Good repor's liurebeen received here from < the Palmer River. • Many miners are going. The Catholic community at St. Bathan*? have determined very gen»rrt::*l-v not ;o float a branch of the Hibernian Society, wuieii necessarily has the exclusive features of most of the benefit clubs he fore they are convinced that it i« impossible to establish a medical club which shali r.fler !•■> nil »like— of v» loiterer sex or cre^d —the beneiil obtuineu by mutual cooperation. _ So "far it appears iwrtain that no. single benefit club, with the present population, can possibly inince a professional of anyI attainments, or upon whom any dependence could be placed, to settle at *t. Bathans permanently. A district, club offers great facilities for cheap professional se.rvi«v, for the boundaries of the sub-district to be benefitted could be extended as mav be found suitable If a committee of twelve were appointed, with, a President, to meet quarterly ; at each meeting to consider general business sent to them by the sub-committee of three appointed for the constant conduct of business, payment of surgeon, and other detail. It would be soon seen whether the support tendered would not prove the desirability of the institution. There is no reason that we know of why such an institution should not, if prop«-rly put on a stantial footing, receive a subsidy from the Government at the same rate as the hospitals"" do. In that case it would probably be necessary to have a small temporary accident ward r subsidiary to and in connection with theNaseby Hospital. A district - club would, relievo the management of any piirely sectarianor social benefit club, that might, be set ou foot' hereafter, of a very serious expense.

A coERTsroNDTSNT writes lo us from' St. T?s-. thane, d:it<.'d the 9th: —The residents from SfcBathaus :ve faking : a lively interest in.'thecoming f-lection. One of "our loral men Mr. G.H.Smith has rehired from -the contestMr. Loary niay get a f.'w v<.tes . herft, but,, from what I cxu le-iw, tln-y wiil t>> veiy few. As far as St. Bathaus ia cou<*eraed the "tug, of war" lies between Ew»'«j and Armstrong. To us St. Batharufcs'the - autngon'sm seem 3 unnatural, so much so, t hut many -who-would . otherwise vote for Eving will be against him. Armstronsisthe favoriv and ifhcnranytellsfor anything;, supporters her- are «eU'rimne--l that he shall no! be allows?.! tn b--=<r tlie-.0-sts--of the in St. B-ithans. Yinius while coquetting with the sun to -Iny, uniped herself so closely up in niiu cloitds th:tt many parties -were disappoint very shadowy glimpse of her, for about a few second?, Hi, a little afVr one oVWfc.