By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 319, 10 April 1875, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent. J

' Dunedin, Thursday .Evening. Traitor has been scratched for all his engagements at the Canterbury autumn meeting.

Anslow was acquitted for the Wahganui •fire, owing to an insufficiency of evidence. The criminal sessions are finished at Auckland. Gillies disposed of the business -with great expedition.

SLt the Tokornairiro Races, second day, the Publican's Handicap was won by Envy, Right Bower 2, and Stackpole 3. Stackpole was so injured that he haoTto be shotl Hurdle Mace—Kildare 1, after a dead heat with Sir Tatton. The latter threw his rider, who is severely injured. Tokomoiriro Hanli ap —Atlas 1, after a dead heat with Right Bower.

There are sixteen cases for trial on M-- siday—three manslaughter, one ai-son, two rape, one attempted rape, and the rest offences against property/ For the March quarter the Southland railways show an increase equal to 63 per cent, over;the corresponding quarter of 1874. Richardson has inspected the' Waifaki bridge, and expressed great satisfaction at the way in which the work was executed, it will be opened at the end of August or early in September.

A collection of Gray's judgments on Mining Law will shortly he published. At the Waste Land Board the Committee of the Mount Ida Mining Association wrote, objecting to the applications of de Lautour, Newmaroh, Currie, and Marshall for residence areas at Naseby; also to that of Jacob, if it extends beyond the residence area already fenced and occupied by him. Leva, Dogherty, and Aubert also petitioned that Marshall's and Carrie's applications be not granted. The Committee, in their letter, stated that they were fully convinced the alienation of lands on other grounds had _• been a fruitful source of vexatious annoyance, as well as absolute loss to the miners of * the district, and could not, if continued, but result in shutting up a large area of grouul known to be payably arriferous, and which would be available for sluicing purposes as soon as the Sludge Channel is completed. Tt was resolved that the Government be asked to instruct the Chief Surveyor, when he vi* sited Naseby, to advise the Board on the whole subject of laying out the town aif.l" suburbs—in the meantime, all applications to be refused.

The Reverend Mr Gillies, on severing his connection with the West Taieri, was presented with a purse of 125 sovs. At Ri-erton six men, named James M'Donald, John Davis, James Parsons, John Dawson, and John Thompson (2) were drowned by upsetting the Government " long coffin " during a gale while in search of the body of one of the Memphis' crew drowned a fewdays before. Th s makes ten deaths from drowning in the district within a fortnight. Millar, F.S.A., has been appointed Provincial Engineer in Nelson. The Shotover Company's inspectors will recommend an increase of capital, and 'washing away often acr'B by sluices. CHRISTCHtTECH. The Jockey Club have disqualified MacKay for pulling Medor*. The disqualification is not only for ever, but affects all horsrs with which he is intimately or remotely connected