By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 385, 28 July 1876, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspond en'..)

Dunedin, Thursday Evening.

Owing to the heavy swell on the City of Kow York, which should liaTe sailed on Tuesday night, is still unable to get awny yet. Cievcro gales reported from the North Is" land., At Napier, the barque Gog du Village is totall) wrecked, and cottages are freely unroofed and fences blown down at T*urango. A largely attended meeting of the Edf-n olectors reoolved that. f»ll Auckland Members bo asked to support Wliitaker'g resolutions to make all revenue Coloniill revonue, or, fail*ng to carry it, lo support the separation of the two islands.

A committee of influential Wellington citiaens has been appointed to d»cida upon tho

most suitable manner to perpetual® a. memorial to Dr. Featlierston.

A report is current of a find of gold aboro the Hutt (Wellington). Intel'igenca reached Port Chalmers that a fishing boat, which went to the fields on Monday, in charge of John Johnstone, ac companied by two men known as John and Alfred, met with bad wea'her outside, wd, in attempting to return, was prevented from reaching the ohore. The boat sprang a leak, and with great difficulty they managed to run ashore among the rocks a little aboro feandfir beach. To roach the mainland it was necea •ary to chmb the .face of a cliff about 200 feet high. Alfred tried to do so, but about half way up the piece of cliff lie was holding gave way, causing hirn t>> fill with great violence to the foot of trie c'iif. Johnstone succeeded in getting up tint cliff and procured assistance. On returning. A frea was hauled up by snenn? of ropes, but so yerere were his injuries that he died four hours afterwards.

Alexander Grant has been appointed Man ger of the Ot«go railway?, rice Conyers who has obtained leave of absence for sevsral months. The scaffolding at the new telegraph building gave way yesterday, bringing three men to the ground. Albert Perriman had the right knee broken, and the left ankle dislocated. The other two were slightly injured. The Deputy-Superintendent has removed J. F. Dundas and W. Wood from being Commissioners of the Inveroargiil Waste Lands Board, Appointing Thomas i)enniaton and Andrew Tosback in their place. .. At the meeting of the Dunedin Waste Lands Board the Chairman (Strode) was .requested to interview the Goldiields Secretary re the Wakatip Commonage. Auckland City West polling gave Tonka 656; Farnall, 38; "liochforfc, li>. The Christchurch Acclimatisation Society has voted a sum of money for the introduction of bumble bees from England. A. W. Morris has been elected director of the Colonial Bank, vice John Keid, resigned. On the Separation proposals the Government confidently assert that they have a majority of seven, while the Opposition also claim a majority. Reynolds left for Dunedin to-day. lie h>s paired fox the Government on all quea• tions save Reparation, and on it he will vote with the Opposition, conditionally that their 3eheme carries out his proposalsof IS7I Th»- Eingarooma, with the 'Suez mail, arrived at the Bluff last night. She left for Port Chalmers at I p.m. _ European news state it i 3 considered that recent events are a decided check upon the Russian policy. In reply to a note from the Grrnd "Vizier, the Llinisier for Foreign Affairs in Servia has given assurance of the peaceful intentions of Servia Lord Lyttelton is likely to resign the Go-vernor-Generalship of India at the end of the year, the climate not suiting his health. Sir Phillip Wodehouse letires from Bombay at the end of ths year. The Emperor William has gone to Ems to meet the Czar. There will probably be an interview between the Czar and the Emperor of Austria at Warsaw. The ' Ward,' a .Russian organ published in Belgium, contains, an artiele Tirulently attacking the policy of England. ■Cablegrams state that the barque Anna and the brig Isabella have been wrecked at Port Stephens., The crew of the former were lost. The Sydney budget shows that the revenue has exceeded the estimate. The customs, excise, and territory revenues showed an increase, and the prosperous state of the Colony. Things altogether are satisfactory, notwithstanding that it is estimated the loss of a million on the decline in wool would affect all classes. Adelaide is also considered highly satisfactory. The schooner Brilliant has been wrecked off Cape.Byron. The fate of the crew is uncertain. An affray between the blacks and the black troopers is reported from Queensland. Several of the latter were wounded. ■ —0PARLIAMENTARY.

Dc Lautour mores—That it is desirable that in future, in alienation of Crown lands by sale, license, or lease, the survey fee's (if any) should be charged on a uuifonn acreage basis, irrespective of distance from survey office. - On Friday, .in tjie .Legislative Council, Nurse asks if the Oovernment will procure from Blair an opiuion as to the utility of the Western District Railways under the present plans and specifications—(l) As to the safety of passenger trailic, ?nd, if so, what rate of speed ? (2) As to goods traffic, what weight can go safely along the liue ? Pyke intends to bring in a isill having for its object the reduction of the gold duty to 3d. per ounce. He is unlikely to carry it unless he consents to the reduction on a eliding scale.

PUBLIC WOUKS STATEMENTThe Hon. the Minister for Public "Works delivered the Public Works Statement on Tuesday evening laTst. He re. marked that, owing to his statement being called for so soon after the close of the financial year, he had been more hurried than he had anticipated; consequently some tables were still incomplete, but would be laid before the House on an. early date..' The-railway works .had not heen pushed on so rapidly as in the two previous years, yet care had been taken to avoid delaying those near completion, •'so that they might be remunerative as yearly as.pQ»sible» I'eferrihg to the Otago. |.riesjhe.said : The ,Waltaki ; bridge lias lbeen-,oij)ened.for traffic, and has a. supply protection.against'" .fie. ■ ( The, Oamaru-Moeraki'line will be open in two.: months.' The works north of Dunedinare: all under contract excepting nine miles at Wajkouaiti, and .this length will "be let . as soon as'the Blueskin section is comipie,tc3i'\cTl[ve land compensation throughout the district lias been very heavy, end the bricking of the tunnels involves a further appropriation of .30,000. The Minister,after visiting Balelutha- has given instructions for the Clutlia to Mataura line to be proceeded with as set of by the Engineer-in-Chief. The works south of Clinton will not be completed before the end of the year. The' Thames, Waimea, and Mount Ida water races and the Waipori and Mount Ida «iudt;e channels are' nearly completed. Receipts" from Ot.igo railways during year ending March last were £90,790, and ihc expenditure £66,552, leaving a credit balance on Otago railways of £23,945, or a net profit on Ota go-Canterbury rail wars of £85,232. Tho tctal expenditure to 30th June last under the Immigration and Public Works Act in the Middle Inland, on railways—£3,4o3,s3B ; on roads—iil 5.i4.721; on water . ares £3,**20.543. Proposed expenditure fur the current, year was (Otago) —Waitaki bridge, Ci3o'); W- itfiki. In ni;d .Lawrence branches, £324,400 ; Winton and Kingston, £63,0(0 ; total,- £1,004t,660.

[The following appeared in ottr isms tf Saturday last:—j Supplementary telegrams.

- (From aur own correspondent.) Dunedin, Friday, 8 p. reWilliam Marshall, a well-to-do milkman, with a largo family, has been committed for trial on two charges of rape. Hail in each case was fixed, hims«if in £IOJ, and tvr» sureties of £IOO each. The Supreme Court was occupied *ll day with the special jury case—M'Bride v. Brogden, to recover £ISOO, compensation for injuries sustained by being thrown out of a ballast truck on the line Mayoral election to-day occasioned ccnrjderable excitement. Reeves had slightly th« best in the calling. Beeves polled 842; Woodland, 842; Walter, -453. Fresh election will havs- to be held. The only cablegram to-day is that th« steamer Egmont. from Noumea, brings new* of the horrible murder of trio captain of the labor vessel Lucy and Adelaide, of Brisbane, by the natives at St. Bartholomew, New Hebrides. The Government agent, who went ashore with the captain, escaped to a neighboring, village, where he was protected. PARLIAMEN TARY.

Telegrams state that Stout's Local Option. Bill would not have passed had tho publicans been quiet. The bouaceable way in which they talked at their meeting in Dunedin made many rote for the second reading, to show they cannot influence political action. Others abstained from voting for th* same reason. •Stevens wiil ask th« Government to adopt the postal card system, oud the House to affirm the desirat ility of registering Crown grants gratis. The 'Star's' .special correspondent wires that the Otar,o members met. at r.oon to-day to consider the Auekiand nwd Canterbury proposals, which will receive the support of twent» Members of our i'rovince. exrlusi-*# of Messrs. Tuiaroa, Pyke, Mnnders anil Reynolds, undertaking ro »otr for reparation. Auckland asks to b9 relieved of her indebtedness in respect to war expenditure, and if this scheme is tarried out it is.probnble that Wilson will be proposed »s the ec-at of the Fed«ral Government. A telegram from the source ««ts that thorough unanimity prevailed at the Otugo caucus. They have fuii confidence in their committer, ard h-»Te left it tothrm to arrange definitely with Auckland tomovraw tiie proposals for Separation, winch will t'nrn be submitted to C.>nt<*rbu?ry »nd brought before the House. They say tliey have 38 r.dherenti, irrespective of Canierbury. Pyke authorises the statement that there is no truth in the repoits that he is an aspirant for the Commissionership of Police, and other posts. Besjamtn iva.ylor, Esq., has hern returned, for the fourth time, Mayor of Clyde. Ik. the absence of the Warden and Resident Magistrate at Clyde, W. L. Simpson, 11. A. Stratford, Esq., Warden an i Resident Mngi-trale at Arrow, will take charge of tL* Dnnstan and Cromwell districts. J. B. Dungey, charge-' with being of unsound mind, was brought up at tho Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, before L. W. Busch, f'-pq., J.P., and remanded until Monday. We understand that the Mount Ida Pastoral Investment Company have purchased the l.ugged Ridges station, with .->4,000 sheep, on the Waitaki, late the property of Sutton' Bros . for the sum of £20,000. This property adjoins the Company's present station, and contains between -SO, 000 and 90,000 acres. Monday last was the nomination day for Mayor of Alexandra. There was or.ly one candidate—James Samson, Esq., the previous Mayor-—who was declared elected. This is the third time Mr. Samson has been elected to fill the office, lie i 3 well and favorably known in iNaseby, and'was one of tho first storekeepers in tho old Hogburn Gully at the first rush. "Wz understand that Mr. Harry 2fettlefold, ths popular and obliging driver of Cobh'i coach between Clyde and Pigroot, is to be presented, on the evening of the 2nd proximo, with an illuminated address and is purse containing close on 300 sovereigns. . This, is * most substantial recognition of his -obliging disposition, and a tangible token of his many good qualities.