By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 365, 4 March 1876, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

v —o — r (From our own correspondent.) '■■':■■ ■-:"'•: ..:-■■» —— ■.. ;; -: _ Punedin, Thursday Evening, The Provincial Government .adhere to its determination to reduce its laborers' -wages to 75., in the hope that the men will betake themselves to the country, where labor is scarce. r ...■-. Earthquake shocks were felt at Oarnaru.on Monday and Tuesday. - : The City of Melbourne and the, Granada arrived at Auckland yesterday, the former bringing'the niails, which should reach here on Sunday. News generally unimportant. The Catholic clergy in Germany are urging the Pope to accept the Ecclesiastical Lawi Four French army officers have been cashiered for attending Napoleon services. Another attempt to blow up a steamer at Antwerp, with 150 people on board, has been discovered. The English Channel Tunnel has been commenced. , '■•'.' 300 British troops have been dispatched to: escort the Grosvenor mission through Burmah. A bill is passing through the American Senate for a uniform specie payments in 'England and America on the basis of the American dollar. The London 'Times' suggests the sovereign as the most convenient. The winter in America is the most severe that has been experienced for years. The passengers by the ship White Eagle; —which arrived at Auckland a few months ago—say that the ship narrowly escaped foundering on the Crozets during a gale, and that they noticed signals of distress from the island, but the officers were too busy to pay attention. ... • The Alhamb'ra is at tTokitifca. ' The Collhiffwood election resulted in the return of Miraois, a " Rt.onewii.ller," with the surprising majority of 1000. ; T London, Feb. 2'6. In the House of ■ Commons, after a two days' debate, a motion by Whit-bread censuring the Admiralty's slave circular, was negatived by 293't0 248. An amendment by Fawcett to suspend the second reading of the. BUI and to make the circular law, was also negatived by 290 to 250. Dufaure succeeds Buffet as President of the National Assembly of France. The wool market is unchanged. Wheat depressed.DUNEDIN SHARE KEPORT. LATEST QUOTATIONS. " . ' , Mr. Frederick H. Evans reports for the week ending to-day : Saxes.—Standard, 10s 9d ; Nationals, 255; 'New Zealand, 55s ; Colonial Bank, 265. Closing- Phices.—National, 25s ; Standard, 10s 7d; Colonial Bank, 26a; National 74s ; Albion Brewery, ss.