By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 347, 30 October 1875, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.) " Bunedin, Thursday, 8 p.m. Bank of New Zealand half-yearly report gives a balance of £64,077, showing -a dividend of ten per cent. Bonus ss. per' share declared. Arrived, the ship Auckland, from Glasgow, with 497 immigrants; Zealandia, from London, with 210 immigrants. The Timaru and Temuka railway was opened for a distance of twelve miles on Tuesday. liolleston, Superintendent of Canterbury, presided at. the luncheon. The reception given to Macandrew, Grey, and others, yesterday was very tame. The banquet in the evening was attended by 350. All speeches related to the legislative changes. A number of unemployed met last evening and decided to form a weekly paper to forward the interests of the working men. - The Mosgiel Factory declare a dividend of six per cent. £I4OO has been carried forward as a reserve fund. The Hero and Mikado arrived at Auckland to-day. The Hero on the 21st, when 100 miles from Sydney, met with a heavy gale. A heavy sea broke on board, doing a .lot of damage. A second green sea smashed the wheel, and washed tha second mate overboard. Captain Logan was badly bruised, and several of the erew were crippled. TEe Hero arrived in a very disabled condition, i SYDNEY. Henry Lee, a well known squatter, was burnt to death at Bathurst through his nightshirt catching lire from a candle. " . Sir Cliarles Cowper, Agent-General of Isew. South Wales, is dead. A great fire at Home Rule Diggings destroyed one side of the street entirely. MELBOURNE. . On Saturday last, Hospital Saturday (?), the collections amounted to £SOOO. * A boat capsized at Sandridge containing five men. One was drowned. The Ministry is formed as telegraphed. ' LONDON. . The foreign', exchange is more favorable, but the-atock. market is without recovery. A&crio EXPEDITION. . British Arctic* Expedition arrived at Carey's Island on the 27th July and left im-

mediately for Smith's Sound. The saason ia described as very open, and every prospect exists of high latitudes being reached. Heport all well; ■-»■'- ' DtmEDIIT SHAKE KivPOK'iV lATEBT QUOTATIONS. Mr. Frederick EL Evans reports for the week ending to-day l Saikb.—Standard, 14s ; Mosgirla, 65s Ka-" tional Bank, 7la. Bttyeks. Colonial Bank, 235; National Bank; 725; Standard, 14s ; South British, 60s ', National Insurance, 24s ; Lurinows, 455; Stars, 658.