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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 362, 11 February 1876, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.) ♦ - Dunedin, Thursday Evehihgj Cartage to Naseby for full load, £3 10s.; broken load, £4. A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Bnsch. Inder, Aitken, Brookes, James Brown, John Creighton, Glemij de Laiitour, and Arin. strong, met the Superintendent On Wednesday morning. Steps are being taken to constitute a paid Board, probably of three members, to have immediate powers of management, collateral with progress of works under the engineers—the Board to slide into a permanent Board, constituted by Ast, if such constitution is necessary. M'E.ellar proceeds to Kaseby to consult with Warden Robinson as to the shape of the Briafd. The Provincial Engineer's report for the complete finish (according to Browne's modified plans)' estimates the cost at £10,500—£5000 on the Sludge Channel, and £5,500 on the Head Race. Works are expected to be finished in four or five months from date if labor is available, and will include one mile extension of Channel, stone pitched, with scrub sides Auckland won the chess match with Dun" edin.

Arrived at; Heads the ship Wild Deer from GHesgow. The Oiford from London arrived at Lyltel. ton ; also the Otaki (with immigrants) and the Crusader, both from London. At Wellington, Smut, the perpetrator of the Hutt affair, wrs committed for trial on two charges of murder. At ffokitifca Vogel received an. address of welcome from the civic authorities. The Reception programme at Wellington includes a torchlight procession and presentation of an address from working men. Judge Williams' answers questions put to him by tbfi Waste Lands Board as follows : (1.) Whether any person who has occupied land for three years under lease under the Goldfields Act, 1866, and has complied with all the conditions of the lease, is in the same position as to right of purchase, &c, as a person who has occupied land for three years under the Lands Act, 1872 ? Answer —No* (2.) What amount of purchase money deferred payment lessee must pay—2ss or 17s. 6d.? Answer—l7a. 6d. (3.) Whether the lease must be for seven or ten years ? Answer—Seven years. Telegrams from the unemployed at the Thames have been sent to the Superintendents of Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago, asking if they can offer an inducement to 300 or 400 miners. Answers received from Wellington and Canterbury are unfavorable. Vog»l had a long conference by telegraph with the Premier and. Postmaster-General of .New South Wales. Instead of altering the nature of the mail service it was agreed to reqdire from New Caledonia and Fiji £SOOO each for the carriage of mails. This will reduce the subsidy of the amount sanctioned by resolution of the Assembly, whilst leaving the south boat and coastal service as.by contract.

The cable has arrived in perfect older. Both steamers expect to reach New Zealand -about ISth; The City of San Francisco, while in port, was largely visited, and generally admired. She took away forty-three passengers. The Minister of Public Works came down by her to arrange the Deborah Bay tunnel works and Waitepeka deviation. The Arawata, at Hokitika, brings cablegrams to 26th January, since which time the line has been fntern pted. The bank rate is 4 per cent. The wool market is quiet, but prices firm. ,A pension of £3OO has been awarded to Mrs. Goodenough. The Frince of Wales met with an enthusiastic reception in Agra. The Spanish elections resulted in a large majority for Government. The Prussian budget shews a deficiency of two millions, AUST AXIAN. Jones was elected for Villiers by a majority of 385 over O'Shannassy. The " Stonewall" tactics are still preserved in, and sittings are now continuous. M'Oulloch has given notice ot a new standing order to cripple the Opposition. It is—that, when previous question is moved a resolution will be put, without debate or amendment. The Hibernia and Edinburgh commenced laying the cable on Saturday. The China, with the Suez mail, is due at Melbourne on the 16th inst. The Albion will bring it down. £SOOO is offered in satisfaction of penalty on bonds under the old Californian mail contract, but the Sydney Grovernment, after conulting with Togel, refused the offer. B f •?