By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 324, 21 May 1875, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.)

Dunedin, Wednesday Morning.

•i The Government were beaten last night'on Mr. Bastings' .A. division? took place at" 12.30 this morning.: -Votes-:. Government,: 20; Opposition, 22. Eeid will resign to-day. It is not pi-obable anything will be done this week. The result will likely be a reconstruction. .;..--; ; . . . :'-} ■ Per Alhambra,' at Hokitika: !-—*< -"' J LohdonjMay Bth." ? ', The reported arrival of the Californian mail on the 4th was false. ~ The steamship homeward bound from 2*7ew York with the mails via San Francisco, was wrecked off the Scilly Islands. She went ashore in a fog. Three hundred ahd,eleven persons perished. Forty-four were saved. The disaster occurred on the 11th. May. The passengers were principally Ger-' maiis. No Australians traceable. Fifty-six mail bags, chiefly newspapers, were saved. ( Yogel's health is very precarious.; A medical consultation decided that a course of German .baths is indispensable. Vpgel cannot return to. New ZealandbefcreSeptember." Puri«:din, Thursday Evening. , ~. : The escort amounts to 8225 ounces. The Auckland Provincial Cqtmeil voted£looo to_ Mrs. Williamson, and negatived' Grey's proposition to resume the control' of the police. ■■•■; * . I The Canterbury Provincial Council resolved' to ask the Assembly to give extended powers to JR dad Boards, and to transfer to those bodies the ownership and control of ; district roads-\.. 'I , > - : "^'.. The arrivals were Wehnengton,- with 137 : immigrants, all well, and the Leucadia and Andrew l!eid,from London; at Lytteltoh,: the Cicero, with immigrants; rat; Auckland; the Dunedin, SB days out, with 250 immigrants. - ' ' ' ; ? At the Waimate steeplechase meeting Medora, won • tile Handicap, and Lunatic the Cup, with Medora second. An extension of the. great southern line from-Ash burton to Kangitata," a distance, of twenty -niileSi will be'opened in a fortnight; which will make the line seventy miles long from Christchui'fch-. - '... :._ •■.'-■.. ] J ■0... ■ ','"'-■ : : April Sfh. Competition at wool sales remains un :

__ _ "" ia -- ""^^^r^ei I abated, especially'among foreign buyers. Th French were.operating keenly. The averag 3 prices are equal to the, highest realised atth 9 March sale. 'J Ofcal sales, 26,000 balel. The Emperor of .Russia has arrived at Berlin. The result of his interview witii tße Emperor of Germany is anxiously' awaited. ' The Italian. Parliament blames the Government for undue leniency to the bishops. . Legislation is promised. Sigadr Mefigclsihi' stated that relations with Germany -were excellent. .■'■'"■■ -■"•-"." Bourke, TJader Spcretary for Foreign Af-faii-Sj has announced in the Commons -that [ the Government hasreceived entirely s'nUdfactory assurances froni the German Govßrstment relative to correspondence with -Belgium. ■••■-■..'• - •-•■-. The colliery strike in Suith Wales •"terminated in the men returning to -work on the conditions proposed by the masters. - _ The Czar and , GortschaJcoff interviewed -Bismarck as.to the supm*ession of religious orders m Prussia, voted in the Chatnbersr" The following particulars are from a -Melbourne paper about the SchUlor i -'he is an iron screw steamer, 3421, tons register b>-i't by Napier, of Glasgow, in 1873. LeiuMh--380 feet ; beam; 40 feet. The owuerAre Germans at Hamburg. The Sehiiler belonged to, the Eagle line, running between New York; Plymouth, Cherbourg, and Hamburg Thd miyls were those by the Mikvlo. Iti«. not considered probable that any Australians or New Zealand the mails were hurried through America, and ■ the passengers would have travelled moris leisurely; "ATTSTRALTAJr. Great failures in Sydney. Stubbs* Company has failed, .losses estimated at £IOO 000' Other houses are involved. , ' 'The Postmaster-General at Sydney telegraphed to London to know the fate of the mails., by.the Schiller; and received the, following answef:—" Letter bass irpm. bydney saved from wreck." -. ■-■•"' A motion Has been tabled in the Queens--land--Legislature urging the annexation of .New Guinea. r ,- .:.

■ A. terrific thunderstorm accurred in Ade* kade on May 11th.'. The ships |Kadina and Wallaroo were stranded. No lives were lost.i ;;:-.■;..: ■:>..:) : 'hr-'-. ■- •.-'"-.•■

■ | The ,pfogressi ye land tax agitation in Mel-: bourne, is feeble'. . ..

Archbishop Gould is adopting a concilia; tory policy on the education question. 6 iff^ ne:i^ p wei % ht fot - the Adelaide CW SstlOlbs. . The next horse is a stone lower ;■! T ? e Victorian G overhment will propose 4 tax,on absentees. ~ >

A meeting was held at Sydney on the annexation of New Guinea by the Imperial Government The principal speakers were Dr. Lang-and Sir John O'Shannassy.- A reaolutioninifavor. of the annexation was unanimously* adopted. . Great discoveries of nickel in New Caledo' nia is attracting attention in Queensland. U^^nXT 1 * P ro P° s e to raise a loan of £1,500,000 for railways, harbors, rivers, and .telegraph extension. • ' -

Olsen, one of the men jumped overboard from the barque Carlton. He had a plant, and after bemg twenty-four lioutb in the water, reached the beach, and was relieved by fishermen. He had received bad treatment from the Captain."

The Star stales that Basting* has so far-succeeded in forming a Government—himself Provincial'and Goldfields Secretary} Fish, Treasurer j Wood representing Southland, andSumptcr the North. The Solicit torship will be made non-political—Haggitt undertaking.the duties of the department fop Otago: during May. Arrived, the Fleming and Aldegrove, with 067 immigrants. The railway from Auckland to Mercer, a distance of forty miles, is ready for opening- .