By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 314, 5 March 1875, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent)

Dunedin, Thursday Evening. The ' Daily Times ' makes ample apology to Father Coleman.

The Oamar'u's passengers have been. admitted to pratique to-day. Lurline has been purchased by Gardiner, of Victoria—Diver's stable—and Calumny by Ward, of this Province, the former owner of Tamburini. Protos will not be down for the March meeting, owing to lameness. Yeend has been unable to purchase Goshawk. At the Waste Land Board meeting yesterday the District Land Officer, Naseby, reported on the application of John Neill (on behalf of the Progress Committee) that block JNo. 1, Macraes should be opened for agricultural leasing. The matter was referred to the Government. The District Land Officer wa3 in favor of the opening of the land. WELLINGTON. The Government have heard from He says lie is hard at work arranging the loan, but does not say when he arrived. He intimates that it is not improbable that, owing to the condition of the money market, this loan.may not be negotiated on such favorable terms as previous loans. The commissions of Prendergast as Chief Justice, and Gillies and Williams as Judges; were signed yesterday. AUCKLAND. John Smith died this afternoon from burns and nervous prostration sustained at a fire at Newton. In his statement before his death Smith said he sustained the injuries in rushing through the dining-room, where the spirits were all ablaze. He fell oh his way, and broke the sash of the nearest window, and got out, cutting himself so severely that he was bleeding all the way to the Hospital. At Ohinemuri, on Mackay's suggestion, Smith's party and Coleman's agreed to amalgamate, getting a prospecting reserve of fifteen men's ground. They then produced gold-bearing Stone, and exposed their workings, from v.'hich two hundred weight of rj!<H nt'arins fit one whp kv>.->ckf>d out. in ». short time. The result has given satisfaction. ■