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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 378, 9 June 1876, Page 3

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i ... (From our own correspondent.) • - Dunedin, Thursday Evenings .The Licensing Bench refused to entertain the memorial of the,clergy to refuse aU.applications for new and to abolish the bottle licenses.' .The Chairman said tlie sols duty, of the Bench was to regulate the liquor traffic. Let the ■ 'gentlemen who had signed the petition work in their sphere of the pulpit. and there Endeavor to'raise up a feeling against the use of intoxicating liquors. Bathgate's remarks were" applauded by full. Court. The Suez mail has arrived at Adelaide. The Queen's title as JEiup'ress of India has ; been proclaimed.- ■' ; - ' ' : 4 The Prince,of Wales \fas t corclially received on.his return home. • Petrarch, winner of , the Derby, won the i 2QOO .Guineas.,. ... . The.wool sales show an,average,fall of 10 , per cent, on the February, sales. , Sailed—the Albion, for the •-Bluff,-, with the mails. The opening of.'the Americs-n CVntennial.Exhibition was carried , out with great ceremony. , , The Superintendent ; and the bulk of the Otago members leave here On Tuesday. . The ' ' revives, the report that it is intended to, prorogue early, and ; a. few days, to, give practical eltectjto | the Abolition Act- .-..-p.; ' ' ' J.,,;." | land saie? , iiv Canterbiir-.s- ;The ! month's revenue. from , this source peached ;£92 v luu, -.-o: - ' The' Hon. Scotland's. Jefcter toiGraht, ' endorsing bis statements re the Colony, and attacking the T.ir:inaki people, causes grtat excitement thvro. A meeting is to be holi), I nskiug the v.-rownior tu itniine himi.v.;ni the Legislative Council.

[Tka following ayp*ar*d in oar irrtu qf Saturday last:—J