By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 393, 22 September 1876, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

{From crar own coiTeepondent.) e Dime din, Thursday Evening. Nesbitt won the billiard match, for £IOO a-side, against- Maneon, beating him by 81 points. The game occupied six hours and a half. The requisition to the Dunedin members received 864 signatures. They replied, expressing the belief that, being in the thick of the fray, they were best competent to judge whether they were wasting time, and agreeing to go before tlieir constituents', and have the views of the citizens as a whole taken. Last night the Political League carried resolutions, affirming that the requisition misrepresented public opinion here, and calling upon the (Jity members to resign, and ascertain the state of public feeling. It is reported that Macandrew auil 6tout, hopeless of doing good, leave for Ot&go on Saturday. A protest, couched in similar terms to that to City members, has b-en circulated in Roslyn for signature, prior to presentation to Hums. De Murska appears at the Queen's Theatre for a short season on Tuesday. The JRingai ooma, with the Suez mail, sailed for the Bluff on Monday. The month's escort amount* to 12,315 ozs. A correspondent writes to the " Lyttelton Times,' warning diggers not to be called away by false glitter at the Kumara rush. Shaw, late newspaper proprietor at West Coast, Thames, and Auckland, died at Philadelphia. Captain Bayldon, of the schooner Sissy, reports tires burning on Tuesday on Portland Island, evidently as signals. Heavy weather prevented communication. General dissatisfaction is felt in Canterbury at the proposal to strike a rate of a shilling in the pound for educational purposes. Larnach was elected unopposed for representation of Peninsula in the Provincial Council. Cablegrams state that the men arrested for the Cape diamond robbery have been discharged, in the absence of documents by the mail. An application has been received by the Sydney Government, from New York, to change the Pacific route to the Bay of Islands, Auckland, and Honolulu, instead of Fiji, and to give up the New Zealand coastal service.