By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 306, 9 January 1875, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.)

Dunedin, Thursday Evening.

At the Supreme Court yesterday Gfeorge Jonca was acquitted .on a charge of'ATson at Tokomairi.ro; "Charles Fowler,-for, stealing studs at Tuapeka, received'two years> John M 'Cormack, stealing from a till at Dmredin,two years; Cornelius Carey, stealings watch, nine months; John Eraser, forgery, two years, John Levi Goldberg, stealing nuggets at" Cromwell, eighteen months. No true bills against Ellen Burke and , Jane Henderson.

At Port Chalmers, at the Board of Healthmeeting, a fatal case of typhus was reported.

Ullrich thinks well of the apg&arance of Otago as a natural field for gold. He was surprised with the sameness of rocks that he met on every hand. Blue Spur was sortiething altogether new >to him. Be' thought it very strange if that bed of gold-bearing cement was the only one in the country. Re had not the slightest doubt but that t&ere' were deep leads m the "Wetherstoffi <&kl Waipori flats. There was every probability that they would prove payable, fie strongly condemns the narrow ripples used on the Blue Spur batteries, and upholds the system of drop wells used at Clunes, as being by far the best for saving gold. The KWaipori quartz reef received a large share of attention. He was highly ; pleaded with it, and stated that he had not seen, in -Victoria or elsewhere, a better defined lode. He had great hopes for the future of Waipori as a quartz country. "«. . fcly grog selling at Tuapeka is being vigorously prosecuted. Yesterday two convictions were secured against John Olymer, of Glenore, £2O and~£3o; and two against Kilner," of Murray's Flat, £2O. - The Tapanui Joekey Club has disqualified Mabel. , > ■

The Clarence has arrived at Napier with 5 348 immigrants. 1/ .', Clark, the lecturer, is expected by the next Melbourne steamer.' ..''"'

While the New Zealand five per cents moved off in the Sydney market at "par,' the 'Sydney fives found buyers at 1034. ! '' " AUSTRALIAN. 4 * - ' " The Australian news per the Easbv is unimportant. -. I Great dissatisfaction prevails over the [scratching of Goldsbovough for the HawkesbuiyCup, andnotannouncuig.it till some* time after. The 'Herald' savs the bookmakers nettwl kree .sums The ' Empire ' liereaftpr The iutorest in the Melbourne Cup match

-ia greater than hi the Intercolonial niatci -At the finish of tie play, on the 'iSril ult the South Melbourne score in the second in nings_ stood at 439, with eight :wieketß ilowa : 'fhis is the greatest score ever obtained- u the colonies. East Melbourne re-quires 3S( to win. . In the Intercolonial match, Victorij in the second innings, luade 18?, Kelly getting 85, and Costiek 33. Now South *V£e< made 86 4 with four wickets dovwi, and :V> *o win. ARROW. The mail coach has been upset at Hajes Lake. • 'Parsons is severely injured, and fciproulejSlightly. r ' .