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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 383, 14 July 1876, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

' ! (Fvora our own correspondent.) . —GSUICIDE OF the SULTAiN of TORKEY. Dunedin, Thursday Evening. A deputation from Clyde waited on the Deputy- Superintendent, protesting against the sale of the Leaning Rock, Dunstan, on the ground that it is auriferous. The libel action by Bishop Moran against the ' Star 1 commenced on Tuesday. At the opening of the case Uoworth, who defended wished to draw the attention of the Bench - consisting of Mansford, 11.M , and Bathgate, R.M.—to an article in the ' Table V commenting on the case, but the Court held that it was only there to consider whether a prima facie case was made out, and could not call up the proprietor of the ' Tablet' for contempt. Macassey, in stating the case, aai.l it was impossible to institute a civil action, as no person was directly aimed at—the whole Church was libelled. The paragraph originally appeared in the ' Tuapeka Times,' which had only a small circulation, but when it was re-published by the ' Star ' it wa3 telegraphed all over the Colony, and thus the soandal became intensilied. Several adherents of the Catholic Church weie called, and characterised the paragraph as a base libel. Moron denied that any priest or nun in the Province had married. At the close of the plaintiff's case it was adjourned till Saturday. A fatal accident occurred at the Stirling r.;i'i-,vay station this morning. John .l'ouug,

engine cleaner, recei-ed soias iajarka while shitting a waggon, was removed to the train to lie taken home to Mosgiel, but expired at Waihola.

It ia probable that an All-iinwlaud Eleven will visit IN ew Zealand. Southern escort—l4l,". ouncc.3. Cable ii-sms state that_ Camelia and Enguerranda rsn a dead heat for the Oaks. Abdnl Aziz, late Sultan of Turkey, has committed suicide by opening a vein with a pair of scissors. A plot has been discovered to sink the ironclad training-ship Caledonia. A Constantinople telegram states that 118 villages in Bulgaria, containing 100,000 inliatants, are in ruins. It is stated that os»*'a has waived all objections, and will go haul in hand with the rest, of Europe on the Kasiern question. The Bake of Edinburgh has beenplacedin command of the irocclads to further his advancement to the position of Admiral. ; . rt is supposed that Germany ia backing out of her agreement with Russia. At. Au« i febiud the Nevr 2-aianH Insurance Company's annual report gives a profit for the half year of £40,077. Dividend of 20 per cent, declared.