By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 315, 12 March 1875, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(from our own correspondent.)

Thursday Evening. thetMaHowdale.; Z-X-:' • from London. Mansford has decided against the Shotover . and > other companies .claiming for the non--payment of calls—holding that legal proceed" ings for the recovery of calls- could not be taken after a lapse of-fourteen days from the date r of■ payment berag-due. The decision is to be. appealed against;; ~ ■v • ■ Chapman to day. has intimated from tb e . Bench 'his retirement at the end of the month-

At the Harbor Board meeting M'Dermid moved.a'resolution calling upon- Gillies to resign. Lis political offices, but it found no seconder; • > . Steward has been elected for Oamaru County without opposition;

; The present betting on the DunedinCupis four to one against Traitor andiPertrobe, -five to one ISTgaro, six to one Atlasjiseven to one 1 . Spritsail and Castaway, eight to one Hercu?les,yv: Eight - Bower, and Templeton, ten to .oira Tripolis, and twelve to one Sonnambula.

r" Uamuru meeting the Hurdle Race .swaa a walk over for Banjo. The Maiden fell to Sir William, Ramble second. !-For the Handicap of 100 sovs: Barton's Exile -'was first, with M'Kay's Unknown second, ißlackbird third. For the Members Plate Medora was first (protested against), Exile i second. For suspicious riding in the Member' 3 Plate Barton and bis horse Exile have [ been disqualified during the Olttb's.pleasure. i By a coash accident atjSaddle Hill a Chinaman named Ah. Leong, well, known in I Naseby, has - ' i - 1 - : WELLINGTON, i A .special .to the '.Times ' says the general i idea: there seems to be that the General Goi verntnent will not seek to do anything in the r snap Tor cons^'ri^ionlfiSn^rTsu^^tirpleaS 4 the Premier's absence. Prendergast's resignation of the Attorney-Generalship, and Tra" ver's refusal to accept the office are given as reasons for hot futiiUing the pledges" given last session. ■ They will try to make the session as short as possible, and get the new elections over before the end of the year, and as soon aa thenew electoral rolls can be got ready. A general impression also .exists that Vogel will not put in an appearance .until just on the ove of the meeting of Parliament—so as to strengthen his claim for indulgence. • * . ARROW. An inquest was held on the body of an infant female child found tipd to a bundle of c]othe2 in a waterhole near the town.' A post mortem examination showed that" the child was born alive, and had been from two to four months in water: It had been kliled by stabs in the brain. A'verUict of''.Wilful murder, person unknown," was returnee?. The jury added a rider, urging the Government :to offer ;a large ' ' A prospecting claim has been granted for a quartz reef at Macetown. The lode is five feet wide; Specimens .produced two and a half ounces to the ton. GENERAL. A Cromwell telegram states that magnificent prospects appear on the new line of reef, parallel to Logan's. For one lot of stone froth the Hit or Miss claim Logan offered £IOO, which would necessitate thirty ounces to the load. Much'dissatisfaction exists-at Ohireinuri. The last specimens, from which much was expected, yielded nothing. The miners are clamoring for the prospectors to show payable gold, and' talk of rushing tie claim. Fox, in departing from, the Colony, was yesterday presented with an address from those who voted with him against Stafford in 1873. He will return in twenty months, but it is problematical- whether he will reenter public life. Maukay opposes Grey for the Auckland Superintendency on the abolition ticket. He is relying on the miners and the Maorias. SUEZ MAIL. The Albion is at the Bluff with the Suez mail, The whole of the New Zealand four million loan has been taken up by Kothsjhilds. The subscription list has been closed. Bright ridicules the HomeHule movement. Prussia has resolved to require Bishops to recognise the supremacy of the "State over Papal .authority, under a penalty of disendowment. After three days' painful suspense, news has reached Melbourne o( thel ultimate fate of the Gothenburg's passengers. Only 22 of the crew reached Port Denison. The remainder, 95 in all, perished. On the night of February 24, when all hopes of saving the vessel were abandoned, the boats were ordered to be got ready. Then -thore was a rush, and'in the heavy sea the be at capsized. The drowned include Judge Wearing, his associate, the Hon. Thomas Reynolds, the Crown Solicitor, Dr. Milner, Wells, editor of the 'Northern Territory Times,' and a number of women and children. The tale is a sad one. The Captain, officers, and engineers were all drowned.

Dr. Buller, of New Zealand, has been created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.