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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 331, 9 July 1875, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph.

(Ercim our own correspondent;)

Dunedin,-Thursday Evening. In .the. SupremO Court to-day luce Postmaster at Alexandra,''pleaded guilty, and vras,sentenced to three months' imprisonment. - ' The squattei's mean war to Ihe knife. Yesterday's proceedings of the Waste Lands Board excited great 'interest- On Monday afternoon the Chief Commissioner was served .with an injunction issued by Larnach, restraining the Board frnim prodeeding further .re deferred payments schemes in theH?eriot Huiidn ds, pending the trial of the action to set aside the Superintendent's proclamation as illegal. On receipt of the injunction Thomson iustruced the District Land Officers and -clerks in the Land Offices not to applications. The Board, consisting of Keid, Bastings, and Clarke, carried a resolution disapproving of Thomson's action, ahd ordering that applications should be received. Thomson thereupon vacated the the chair, and the Board appointed Clark and carried a resolution, instructing him to. telegraph to the various Land Officers, ordering them to receive all applications; or to ref use them: at their perilj and to the public directing them to make Application and deposits in the ;usual • vray; -Willis Was appointed Land Officer here owing to Thomson s , refusal to act. A- regular rush was made for his office-' 165 applications here werfe received, and 193 at Lawrence and Invercargill,- or ■ for ten times the quantity of . land thrown open. To-dav the.Board .instructed the Provincial Solicitor- to apply for'the removal of the injunction. . , ';

The blar ; and; Gruardian ! strongly support th? Board's action.

A special telegram ■ to - the '..' Guardian. ' sajs that Pollen s Government have _all the Bills .prepared, ..and _are sanguine of success.'- They have' a forge' credit ba^ lance. - ....** ; An. unusual amount of sickness prevails in Invercargil], pneumonia haying taken the form of an epidemic. - - Over 100,000 acres in the Heriot Hundred are already applied for. - ' Griffiths' case" concluded the criminal business. He was found -guilty on the minor counts.. The jury making a strong recommendation to mercy on adcotint of his. previous, good character* lie was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. At the University Council meeting yesterday the Provincial Board suggested, as the best means of -utilising- the- vote-for the e.stablish.ment of a School of. Mines—-(l)-The Appointment of a Professor of Geology 3-ud Mining, also of a Lecturer on Surveying. ' (2). The r purchase of the mai terial required immediately. (3) And the appointment .of: Gaptaiu 'Hutton >'as Proi fessor of Zoology. .- The-Board urged the following considerations in support of their recommendations: The .Province would be immediately in a position to : offer complete education 1 in all matters relating to mining.- A Professor of Geology and Mining would give instruction in Geolo■gy. Mi n eralogj;, practical Minmg- (ineluding the application of machine y), andl-un-derground surveying: ■'The Councilor- 1 warded the recommendations to the Super intendent ;for-favoi*ablel consideration, I At Christchurch\Pivitt'.,was;, sentenced to ten years. James was acquitted for embezzlement of'lj'odge funds, the' prose-: cution breaking down completely. Judge -Williams said- that; present state of the law, the treasurer of a friendly so-' ciety could rob such society without renderingi himself liable to'.'punishment: ' Henderson,, driverrof the mail.coach be-' tween Inyercargill and Balclutha; died of pneumonia. On Tuesday'night, while de-| lirious, he escaped from the hospital, a'rTd' ran some distance in state; of -semi-nu-? dity. He was picked. > tip'-by Rollin-; shaw on the Biver tori''road-.

The 'Star's.' special states that relations! between Togel and Featherslone are not' such as the the Colony re-' quire. : Featherstone-'treats "Voijel's- i«-j structions cavalierly, and ! 'l'icks official re-; ticence. Some curious memoranda will> be presented fcorParliaiuent; ; -:TJ - i An 'extraordinary discovery has been! made at,Q,ueenstown of .recent robberies.! Sui'ythe, a carpenter,, is "the .perpetrator.' Amongst the property, found are several! articles missing from,Powell's, for which the girl Sloan:-served', a sentence. „ • ' At the instance of Larnachj Herbert, and M'Xellar, Judge Johnston to-day granted- a rule nisi, made--je turn able on Wednesda}'-, calling oti Reid, Bastings, and Clark to show canse why, they should not be committed,., to.gaol for. disofbeying inj unction re Heriofc, Hundred., -

CABLEGRAMS'. ~ y-r ■ Per Mikado at Auckland : - ; -London, June 24-th. ■: ■ Vogel is awaiting -the decision of his: colleagues as to whether lie should resign' or not. . ,:

Disastrous inundations have taken place * at Toulouse through the:overflowing of the liivex* Garoime.i _ .• " v 'ThejGerman.Court of Appeal-have con-victed-iCouut Aruim on the charge of -un-i lawfully removing State documents, and sentenced bim ; tb nine ■ months' imprisonment. • v •• ■ ,

; _ ...... v- = June 27til.' Details of the inundation/by the overflowing of the ■.Garo.nns,-are heartrending. Two hundred'and'fifty corpses have been found.-, -The destruction of-> property .is immense. • Twenty-thousand persons have been rendered destitute. . . June 29th. vThe iEmperors of Austria and Hussia met in Bohemia. - _ ■ : ' ■ The inundations in France extended to several Departments.in the-south:- ; The Assembly have voted'2,ooo,ooo Cranes fori the relief of the suffering. :• ■■ . The.Cape cabinet have objected to con-sider-Garnarvon's suggestion that there: should, be a conference of delegates from' the SoullrAfrican States to-'consider thoi scheme for confederation because such a step was considered; premature. " .• The American team.of riflemen won-the match j)irainsfc,the Irish team .by 38 points. .A special t&l'egram .states-Vogel tci- :be at "Wildsij'ad German baths. ; The. St. Os.with has made*the otit from PljuTiouih' to Melbourne in;4l actual steaming dayf/.Qr <l3 days from anchorage to-anchorage/. The fastest on record.' .