SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS.

[The following appeared in our issue of Saturday last .• —] (From our own correspondent.) Dunedin, Friday, S p.m. By a eolhVori on the- -Northern, railway at Amberiey the passengers wereseverely shaken, but not injured. Sevehil fires are reported. Uiipt.ist.'s stare at. Port Moeraki has been burned to the ground. Loss, £6OO, which is'partly covered by insurance in Mie Victoria.. The Kakanui Harbor Board hare accepted Allan srud Stumbles' tender I'or £14,804. i Bluir states he loses by the fire at Gaver-. sham, on Thursday, £IBCR London, March IS. ' Gladstone, Hartingt-on, Forster, and the

■' Times ' nrg* MiV.«xjwvii: iv* if £:.c*a<iii.g tferf Colohie* in Vhe n«« t jj'te' HStB.-i'rritN b. . Sherwiii waa lined £IOO for smuggling cigars. Hong Korig advices six are loading there for Cookfevn. The project f&r fending rMi-men to Philadelphia is taken up in Melbourne with great warmth. W. J. Clark head? & subscription? list with £IOO. . The Customs revenue in Dunedin for the March quarter is £69,852 against £10\>,705 last year, for the three quarters ju3t ended* 1875-6, £277,016, £18,767, £2?7,495. Messrs. J. astd J. CKKtoHTOxV tender for the Sludge Channel, has been acoaptad for £3606 9s. sd. Mr. Carrie's' tender rej«v ted was £3798 Is. 6s. J

Gleeson and Delanet, intend to give a pedestrian performance this evening at the Town Hall, Na.eby. Gleeson will walk seven miles under the hour, and also go through some superior step dancing. Particulars by posters.

We understand that the Central Board of Health will have under consideration at their meeting in Dimedin on Mondav next, the appointment of a Local Board for St. Ba« thans. Such board would be appointed under, ahd exercise the powers provided by, the PuWic Health Act of 1872.

The ' Dunstan Times' reports that Mr. James Hazlett is about to leave the Dunstan District for Dunedin, where he has purchased an interest in one of the leading wholesale .houses. Mr. Hazlett for the past twelve years has occupied a prominent position politically and otherwise in the management of Clyde, and in wishing him ( in his new location, a continuance of the good fortune that has attended him here we are assured we hut express the feeling of the many friends and constituents he is leaving behind him. After the Ist of April, all fees, fines, and duties hitherto payable to the District Court in cash, must in future be paid by stamps impressed or adhesive. The stamp system is likely, at an ea-ly date, to be extended to payments on the issue of all t.eetinicd document* in the Wardens Couris. An immense atiouut of clerical labor will thus be savwi.