By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 363, 18 February 1876, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our awn correspondent.} v .Dunedin ( Thursday Evening, f° rw ' ar '-liiig agent,' commit tod suicide yesterday by taking strychnine. Heavy business losses supposed to be the cause of the act. The Cromwell Companv have cleaned up 491 ounces from 240 toes of stone. I he cable steamers, Hicernia and Duke of Edinburgh, reached Nelson yesterday afternoon. About sixty miles froui the landing place the cable was cut and biioved. The operators hope to effect a splice in fourteen days after starting with the shore en<?. During the laying, constant communication was kept up with Australia. There is a little uneasiness about the nonappearance of the steamers Tui and Barklesr with Lemon and Shapley on board. The Governor has airived at Auckland. An Arrow telegram states that rich specimens have come in from Hall's reef. Escort—7Bol ounces.

Thß Ministry, with the exception oi M'Lean and Richardson, have been sworn in. Reynolds has resigned- Vogel is Premier, Treasurer, Postmaster-General, and Telegraph Commissioner: Atkinson, Immigrations and Crown Lands Minister; Bowen, Minister of Stamps and Justice j others as before. Vogel is only Postmaster-General till another Minister is appointed. Emulation won the Qeelong Cup and Handicap, beating Richmond and Maid of Alt Work. At the Waste Land Board meeting yesterday the Naseby District Land Officer submitted the application of Keenan to purchase section 51, Waihemo, occupied and improved by him, or that he may have the lease of ths south-west part. The previous decision is adhered to, and the attention of the Government will be drawn to this application. • The Otago railways earned £13,974 during last month. -