By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 316, 19 March 1875, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.)

Dunedin, Thursday Evening. Arrived at Wellington, the Dallam Tower, 83 day 3 out, with 114 immigrants for Otago The Oamaru Mechanic's/Institute, by a majority of 27, decided to open the institution for three hours on Sundays. Gillies has resigned his seat in the Assem. semblv for Waikouaiti. George M'Lean, Bastings, and Pratt are already announced as candidates. "

Tbc Interpretvincial cricket match between Otago and South Canterbury commences to morrow. Both have strong .teams.- A close game ia expected. The Canterburyteam includes E. Fowler, Stevens, Baker, and Neilson. The Dunedin team, comprises Allen", Clarke, Collinson, Glen,; Macfarlar e, Morri- ' ■■■*.■ - ' X, ..... . son, Paramor, Eeade, Rhodes, Sampson, and Tait.

The Mataura sailed for London to-night with a large passenger list and a cargo valued at £IOI,OOO. The schooner. Eliza M'Phee, on her last trip to Catlin's River, was thrown almost on her beam ends by an attack from a shark, which the captain declares-to have been twenty-five feet long.

The Rev. Charles Clarke's lectures are an immense success. He visits the [Goldfields

en route. The Attorney-Generalship is likely to remain vacant till after the meeting of Parliament, when an effort will be made to place it on a semi-political basis. As the lighter Nightingale was proceeding down the Harbor on Wednesday the boom knocked overboard one of the crew,, named Benjamin Gordon, who' was drowned. Deceased swam a considerable distance, but as no boat was attached to the, lighter- the crew were unable to render any assistance. Peter Branigan, mate of the Samson, was found dead in his bed. The pre ent Cup betting is—4 to 1 Ngaro, 5 to LTraitor, 7 to 1 Pertobe and Atlas, Bio I Castaway,. Right Bower, Hercules, Templeton, 13 to 2 Earl of Lynne, 10 to 1 Spritsail, 12 to 1 Tripolis. Maiden Plate—2 to 1 King Phillip, 3 to 1 Daniel O'Rourke and Hercules. Publican's—3 to 1 Templeton and Tadmor, 4 to 1 King Phillip and Lyndon, 5 to 1 Barwon and Hercules. Sir Tatton is .a hot favorite for the Hurdle JRace at 2 to 1. At the Grey mouth meeting the Handicap of 200 sovs. was won by Guy "Fawkes, Yatterina second, Septimus third. Five started' The betting was on Tamburini against the field at the start. The Bank of Australasia is giving 8 per cent, on twelve months' deposits. The valuation on property in Dunedin this i year amounts to £105,000, or an increase of II per cent. A fifteen-penny rate was struck 'last night. Yesterday Conyers and Blair went to Balclutha and back in a little over seven hours, insluding stoppages. r • " Gavin, the prosecutor in the'Eiverton Gold Mining Case died to-day raving mad. The Mikado is at Auckland. She brings cablegrams to the 12th. Archbishop Manning and twenty-four Bishops have issued an address to the clergy aud laity concerning the course taken by the Government with relation to the-Church. 1 ' They urge discipline, charity, and forbearance. i " The New Zealand loan has been, allotted.. The dealings have, been made at a quarter per cent, premium. There is no perceptible change in the wool market . Competition is keen. Archbishop Manning has been summoned to Rome to receive "a Cardinate.' General Hope Grant and Sir Arthur Helps are dead. The mails via San Francisco were delivered in London on the eighth. A Billjhas been introduced by the Government into the Prussian Parliament which withdraws the State endowment from those cl-T -y whn to scknowlp-'ljjfi the ;njprpm aey uf t.he kjtsiW!. , The Emperor of Germany ia ill. , j