By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 318, 2 April 1875, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From car-OTTi rorrfspondbiH.)

Dunodin, Thursday. Evening.' A shocking accident occurred at rorc Chalmers. The face of an emb>;i.-.nif :.t eighteen feel high grfvc way, ounuileioi - crushing a man named George Smith. V.'he'i extricated, life was. extinut. The bowels protruded, a?id one of hi.-j legs was tbni oil. ■ The Xew Zealand Office \e=tei'uay it = policy on the misbing schuOiiar Cuphrosync. The total customs revenue for the.. Mari-'i Tnrtor is £]oo,oo'>, a~ainst £d'*.ss7 for 1874.

xhero was .1 full attendance of the b.*ryesterday to take leave of Ch-xpv.i.ui. (look, aa leader, read an a'dress, to which Chapman made a feeling r^ply. At Ghri=tchuvch l"hmcaji. Crown Prosecutor, and Presidedt" of the local Law Lcstitute; presented an address, in repi;, ing to w inch Gres'sou said it was incompatible with the independence, of Judges for them to be subject to removal by the Ministry when, and a 3 " often as such Ministry pleased.* At the idokitika races the Westlaud Cup,of. 21)0 sovs. was won by Guy :Jawkes, beating: Yatterina and two others. Guv Fawkea also won the Borough Handicap of 40 sovs. The sinking of the last cylinder of the "VVailaki Bridge has been successfully accomplished.

At the Taieri "Races the" Maiden Plate was 1 won by Ada gelding, Shepherdess 2, Fanny Blair 3. District Place— Miss Alfred J, Verbena 2. Miss Alfred went oil with the lead, winning by four lengths. Trotting Itaje—■ Violet 1, Caleb 2.

The Coroner's jury at Port Chalmers passed rider recommending the Government to pass au Act restricting the height of earth to be felled to say ten feet, and requiring contractors to provide efficient supervision over works ofthe kind. The Otago whaler Splendid has returned from ner cruise with twelve tuns of oiL. -

The deaths in Dunedin during the March" quarter are nearly double the returns for the' same quarter for the last two years. A well-known bookmaker appears "at the Police Court to-morrow for fighting with Delamain's trainer.

At the Hokitika races, second, da;/, the ITandicapjof 100 sovs, was won by Yatterina by-Wo lengths after a splendid race with... Guy Fawkes. Both borses'ran for the Stewards Handicap, of qii»sovs., wbeu after a, splendid finish, Yafctcrina again \» on Eeid, iate Assistant La-.v Officer, has bean appointed! Solicitoi -General. . *•. Arney took leave of the J3ehen on Tuesday at Auckland—Gray at Lavvrence.

lATE3T iUKOPi-UN NXWS.* • - The Easby is at Wellington. She brings cablegrams to the 23rd'

"In the Mount-Morris casethe judgment of tho. Colonial Court was reversed. ; At a Consistory held at Eome on the latli six Cardinals were created, including Manning Obituary: John Mitchell, M.P. forTippe-. rary, Field-Marshal Gdmm (*?). ' -- The Prince of Wales visits"Liiia^in the. cool season.

Oxford won the boat race by four lengtfcv The, Bishop of Munster'Jias.been imprisoned. -

The Prussian Chamber has disendowed Bishops not subscribing to the civil code Zealand loan has been admitted to the Stock Exchange. The P. and O. Gompany's steamer- left". Gaile for Melbourne on March 15tL '' :

There arc Wo more failures of houses connected with the South American trade—total liabilities, £600,000, ,In the wool market the prices are firm-