By Electric Telegraph.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 370, 7 April 1876, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph.

(From our own correspondent.) * Dunedin, Thursday Evening, J. T. Thomson has proceeded to Wellington to enter upon his duties as SurveyorGeneral. Speculation is rife as to who is hi 3 successor. The 'Clutha Leader' recommends Reid or Maitland. The ' Evening News' ceased publication on' Saturday. Another complication with the mail has taken place. The Colima broke down off Akaroa, losing her propeller. She is being towed in to be docked. The Hawea takes" the mail up the coast to Auckland, where a new steamer, the Zealandia, will be in waiting.

The City of San Francisco, with the last month's mail, reached San Francisco three days in advauce of contract time. Criminal Sessions concluded yesterday. Milford, who pleaded guilty to rape on a lit" tie. girl at Otepopo, was sentenced to seven years, and was ordered to receive thirty lashes on Monday. At the Christchurch sessions Galvin, per" petrator of the tticcarjon outrage, and at Wellington Smat, T perpetrator of the H..it; outrage, were each sentenced to twenty years.

At the Tokomairiro Races King Phillip won the Haudicap, and Glengarry the Member's Purse. In both events there was a grand struggle between the King and Bower.

In Auckland there is an. uneasy feeling about the attitude of Vogel and Grey. The latter is moving to refer correspondence re the expenditing of public money privately to the Secretary of State. Gisborne, Seed, and Knowles are expected to reach Dunedin to-morrow. They received every assistance from the Provincial authorities in Canterbury. No English news since Monday. AUSTRALIAN". 6th. In Learmonth v. Bailey, which is exciting grea J j interest Melbourne, a juryman states he was o2ered i"2ji) not to agree to the verdict; At B/isbane the Inspector of Na L ive Police has been arrested for flogging a native boy to death.