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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 369, 31 March 1876, Page 3

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(From our own correspondent .) Dunedin, Thursday Evening, Fifteen cases for trial at tho Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court. In the Taiaroa salvage case Judge Williams gave judgment for tho prosecutors for £l2O. Notice of appeal to Privy Council given. • By'a fire at Caversham yesterday Norwich Union lose £2OO and the Victoria £1075. Two premises destroyed. The Calina, with the inward Frisco mail, is due here on Saturday. A good many are leaving Canterbury for the Palmer Diggings. 2800 acres on deferred payments, sold at Lawrence, fetched £2 16s 6d an acre. Biddings very spirited. Tho Premier has intimated that Parliament will bo called together within the next two months. ; BYDNE\. March 29. Arrived, the Mikado, with the inward Frisco mail. The drought in tho back country in Queensland has broken up. MELBOURNE. March 29. M'Kean brought a charge of drunkenness against the Chairui'm Of Committees (Mr. Davies), but his language was so very outrageoua that no notice could. be taken of the allegations. LATEST AUSTRALIA!!". (Per Alhiiiubra, at llokitika.) Melbourne, 24th. The 'Age* has accused the Chairman Of Committees with being drunk . ai d incapable in the llouae, and repeated the c! arge. Currtiioy has been given to a moat disgraceful Bcjinjiai, in which-the names of well known and thojhighest personages in the Colony are freely mentioned. There are all soils of disreputable #ut>ndals afloat, and persona are bo pointedly alluded to (bat they might .us well be photographed. ' ! ' - • - - ShervJ'in, the well-known teL.or, haß boon a&nis»-d|ot rigarji. . .. ' Only*about one-third of 'ho. whole f.hipiiiout oiealrnvti ova ri'joaiiui t>ouu;l. ' "iScurlei fever ib btill" provolent-, and : inany

deaths continue. De Marska will probably le ivs for New Zealand next, week. Fearful drought in Queensland. Ia the Warwick district the the-mo'neter stood ut 112 for three weeks. All the rivers are fast drying up, and cattle are dying in all direc-. tions. In Bourke there haa been no heavy rain for two years The Suez mail will be a week later this . month. The following are the latest of English news per telegraph:— • ' LONDON. '• ' March 27. Members of the Colonial Institute pre-: Bented a memorial to tho Government, requesting to have the Colonies recognised in the Queen's new title. Tho Government have refused to publish Cave's report, which haa caused a panic in Egyptian bonds. Wheat increased in firmness—New Zealand 50s to 52b. Sailed, Northumberland, for Melbourne. Cable now interrupted between Madraa and Penang. DUNEDIN SHAJEUS .REPORT. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Mr. Frederick H. Jivana reports for tho week ending to-day : ~ Sales —National Insurance, 24a fid \ Standard Insurance, 11a 9d ; Colonial Bank, 323; Buyers—National Insurance, 245; Standard Insurance, 12a; New Zealand Insurance, 60s ; Colonial Bank, 33s j National Bank, 755. .