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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 358, 14 January 1876, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(Froin our own correspondent.) Dunedin, Thursday Evening. The Minister of Public Works bus been requisitkmed to speedily open the OamaruMaheno section of th« Northern Railway just completed. : ' New Zealand Insurance Company declared a dividend at rate of fifteen per cent.. T\ft) girls named Hackett and Busliell were drowned while bathing. : • i*er Arawata, at Hokitiki:— ■ LONDON. ' ; Januarys. Lord Nort,bbrook lias intimated hia inability to continue in office as Governor-General of India another sninmer, and Lord Lytton has been appointed his successor. Lord Northbrook receives an Earldom. Obituary : Sir Anthony Rothschild. AUSTRALIAN. Sydney won the intercolonial cricket inarch in one innings. It -was a hollow Affair. 30,000 present at the Champion Meeting The race was won by Richmond by two lengths, Guldsborough- 2, and Maid of All Work 3. Capital race—time smin. 35scc. The steamship St. Osyt.h made the quickest passage on record—43 days 18 hours from London to Melbourne. . * The Sydney Government commences 1876 wii.li a surplus of a million and a half. The Mongolian is due at Adelaide on January 8 with the Suez mail. , There is a new rush to the head of the P't-lmer River. Numbers, are going. The grouud is very extensive and rich, but water is very scarce. The diggers stacking the washrlirt. One man is reported to have got twenty four pounds weight of gild in three we*-k». ■ : "

THE ELECTIONS. ' Final returns for Manawata Johnßton (old member), 191; Bullen, 164. Farneli withdrew in favor of Sheeh.-in (Opposition) for Rodney. ■ Ashley polling—Brown (old member), 266; Maskeil (Canterbury Provincial Secretary), 197. Waikato election Cox (Abolitionist), 431; M'Minn, 174. Grey Valley—Woolcock (Abolitionist), 773 ; Kennedy (Abolitionist), 725 ; Newton, 691 ; Guiuess, 604.

DUNEDIN SHARK KEPORT. . LATEST QUOTATIONS. Mr. Frederick 11. Evans reports for the week ending to-dav:— ' - : Standard Insurance shares offering at 12s9.1 5 Nati >na!, 225. 6d - South British, 51b.; National Bank, 755.; Colonial, 30s. 61. Insurance shares firmer, but little business doing.