By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 359, 21 January 1876, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(Ffdm our own correspondent.)

Dunedin, Thursday Evfeniiig. Typhoid fever has again made its appearance in Cromwell.

itichd. Sexton, aftkr feeiiig fined ai tlie Police Court, ti is morning; -went back t.b his work in the Universal Hotel; and drank a quantity of spirits oi Gaits, and died tilitiost instantaneously. At the opening of thts Chriatch&rcß-Timaru railway on the let a through distance 6f 110 miles will be done in six and a half hours. The Interprovincial cricket match commenced yesterday. Canterbury—lst innings, 149 ; second, 138; with fire fticketa down. OtUgo—lst innings, 175. Betting itl favor of Canterbury all through. The Mikado has arrived from Sydiiey to take the outward San Francisco mail, tinder contract With the Pacific; Mail Company. On the 'fllie is expected to be able to leave Auckland to Contract time, but the voyage was protracted by continual easterly winds. For the lebriiary service the City of San Francisco will leave Port Chalmers, and either the Zealamliti or Granada from Sydney, so that it is hoped the future mail arrangements will be satisfactory. Thfe Sliktldo remains in service until all the other vessels are On the station, and probably l+ill then be kept at Sydney as a spare vessel in case of Occident. -Bloiidin la a passenger by the Mikado'. CABLKGBAMS.

London, January 12. Tho ' Times' WfiO premature in anuoancing that France adhered to the Austrian scheme for reform in Turkey. Zichy informally announced the scheme to the "vizier, who objected to foreign mediation. A Cabinet crisis has occurred in Fraiice. Viscouiit Airtbetly, seta of Earl Bussell; is dead. AUSTRALIAN; The iaa.il from Sail Francisco arrived on the 10th. Wither firic, hot windy.

ELECTION'S. Ray of Islands election—the returiia to the present -time give, Luflker, 115; .Williams (late member), 156; When the final returns for Rodney come iu they will give Sheehan a majority of IS. At the East Coast official declaration Captain Reade was declared duly elected. Morris protested. Franklyn elections, as far as returns go— Hamlin (Greyite), 322; Lusk, (ditto), 308; Woodward (independent), 276; Goodiellow, (Centralist), 230; May (Centralist), 186. There are other returns to come, but they cannot affect the result. William Buckland, late member for Franklyn, is dead. Waimate election—Macf&rlane, 144; Hurst, 131; Lee, 126; Henderson, 65.