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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 366, 10 March 1876, Page 3

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(From Our own correspondent. J ♦—^——- Dunedin, Thursday Evening,- ' Tattler and AhioUul, two firm Dunedin Cup favorites; arc reported t<> have gone amiss. The Executive's minnto, suggesting the appointment of R. B. Mirtin as permanent auctioneer to the Waste Land Boar.i, was postponed for a week. . • ...:;. J. B. Bluir'a tender, for. £Mfis9,.. for. con- ; tract No. .3, from. Athol to Kingston./ (the Wiuioii-Kingston line) has been accepted. '.. The Auckland. Superintendent baa instructed the Provincial .Solicitor to try a" friendly suit against the General Government for the recovery of the japitation allowance, stopped to pay interest on railways. \ A butcher named John Storey committed suicide by hanging himself. Cause unknown. ■".'..-» : , ■ CABLEGRAMS. March 6. Wool sales closed dull. 140,000 hales catalogued, and 40,000 exported. Combings averaged the same as last Februarysales. The probable stock for the next sales will be 25,000 bales. Arrived the ship g Timarn, from Port Chalmers, 82 days out. B. Knapp, Secretary of War.to the United States, has resigned his position on account of the disclosure of the sale of a public post by him. Congress intends his impeachment. Melbourne, 7th. New Zealand oats sold at 2s. 9d. in bond. The Ringarootna left for the Bluff with the Suez mail on the 7-th instant. Sydney. New Caledonia advices state that a severe hurricane occurred on the 23rd ult., doing considerable damage to the houses and shipping. Next day myriads of grasshoppers passed over, leaving no vestige- of herbage. - . •-. DUNEDIN SHARE EEPOR L " LATEST QUOTATIONS. Mr. Frederick H. Evans reports for the week eudiug to-day : Bursas—National Insurance, 245. 9d.; Standard Insurance, lla.; New Zealand Insurance, 605.; South British, 555.; Colonial Bank, 30a. 6d. s National Bank; 755.' ■ """■ '' Selleus—Colonial Bank, f 3ls. 6d. ;. National Insurance, 255. 3d. ; Standard Insurance, 'l2s.