By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 348, 6 November 1875, Page 2

By Electric Telegraph

■T - -i- ---; (rrom our;own correspondent.) -■ - Auckland.• - r . 'The City of Mei,boonie, with the English •and American mails, from-. Sun Francisco iii rived this morning, making .the passage iu -1 we&fcy-two. ,s&ys eighteen .hours, or threu days undeij contract time.' At an enthusiastic meeting held in Glas,gow to protest against Vaticanism a letter Gladstone read, expressing, sympathy with object of meeting. , DUS2DIX. Election matters are exciting attention. It uytnderstood that the writs ■will be issued the last week in January.. Bell definitely retires from Mataura, for which Ualder, Kinross, Wood are brought forward. Major At • kinson and Mosely oppose Murray.. Montgomery, for Akaroa, will ]>e run close by lulhet, who advocates financial separation of two islands. Grey, Bunny, and Shoehan returned to the Korth. - Proudfoot v. the Minister for Public .Works resulted in verdict for the plaintiff for foSOO. Gqion resigns editing the ' Evening Post', Wellington, to enter politics. It is understood that Macandrew favors tour Provinces—two for Island, with seats ® f , .government at Auckland, Wellington, Chnstchurch, and Dunedin—Canterbury to a portion of the West Coast, Nelson, and Marlborough; and Otago to include the remainder of the West Coast. and' South Canterbury. *