By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 310, 6 February 1875, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From pur own correspondent.)

; Dunedin, Thursday Evening. A. number- 0f..; tradesmen .and publicans were brought before Bathgate charged with adulteration of • liquor: Professor Black's analysis of samples sent to him showed f that rum fifteen under proof, contained eighty-five per cent, of spirits' fifteen;.of water, and twenty grains of sulphate of acid and copper, j'br the defence, it was alleged that the adulteration was made either at Home or by the importer. Counsel suggested that the custom's authorities should sample the spirits before landing, aud submit them to Black for analysis. The prosecutions failed on technical grounds.

The Native Minister telegraphs from Alexandra :—-" Had satisfactory interview with Maori King.' His tone good. Pact of meeting significant of good." The Government have received the following telegram.— "No disturbance between miners and natives at OhinemurL The latter do not object to prospecting. The survey is stopped till Maokay arrives—the natives wishing an alteration of the boundaries."

The 'Post' denounces the appointment of Major Palmer as permanent Surveyor-Gene-ral—over the heads of Heal, of Auckland, and Thomson, of Dunedin—as a flagrant job. Arrived at Port Chalmers, the City of Vienna, from London, ninety-seven days out, all welL The Messrs. Rothschilds will negotiate a four million loan. - Ulrich has sent in an interim report. He reportsiully when he arrives in Melbourne. He says:—" Prom the general results of my inspection, I found the auriferous capabilities of the Province of a far higher order than I was led to expect from current reports. The drift deposits seem practically inexhaustible. The quartz reefs opened are, with few exceptions, • as weU:defined and promising as any in Victoria. It requires only improvements in the gold-saving apparatus to show their real value."

The charge of criminal assault against an old man named Thomas Johnstone has been adjourned. The evidence of the child assaulted is horrible in the. details, and reveals an amount of depravity seldom heard of. At Auckland, Leggett, Clerk to the Pro-; vincial Council, has been committed for trial for embezzlement.

Stewart's special settlement at Auckland is referred to by the Irish papers by the mail as likely to draw from the north of Ireland a class of men which she can ill afford to lose. At the prize firing at the marksmen's match Grundy was first, 32; Dey, second, 31; Gascoigne, third, 30. In the 700 and 800 yards small-bore match Hos'kins won with the splendid score of 76, out of a possible 80; Walker (Thames), 72' Christie, 71; Wilson, 66. At the first range Hoskins made ten bull'a eyes in succession, and Wilson made nine. A protest was entered against the winner, and the belt was disallowed. Gillies has .sent in his resignation of bis seat for Auckland. At Tokomairiro a plate-layer named Johns has been committed for trial for arson. Already there are nine cases for trial St. Bathans, Thursday evening. The Messrs. Sweeney hare, disposed of their two shares in claim and water races at Welshman's Gully to Messrs. Brown and party for the sum of £6OO. Another share in the Gully, Mr.. Thomas Murdoch's, has also changed hands this week—the price being £3OO. The dividends in this locality have been, in most cases, extremely good for the last three months. A supper and testimonial is to .be riven on Friday evening to Mr. Paterson, ' the teacher at Welshman's, who is leaving to take charge of the school at the Bannockburn. The Bank of ifew South Wales here and at Blacks still continues tor give £3 16s. per ounce for gold. ' Mr. 0. TT. Smith's application for a special daim will be beard on Tuesclav. Considerable interest in the result is manifested.