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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 403, 9 December 1876, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph.

(From our own correspondent.) Dunediri, Thursday Evening. The Lands Board resolved to recommend the Governor to proclaim three new hundreds. The Chief Surveyor reports lands most suitable for purpose are 22,000 acres on ntti 111, last Mataura River ; 7000 acres on run 175b, lying between two branches of the Waitaki River ; 11,000 acres on run 123, ■on east b:-nk of Ulutha river and around Tuapeka Mouth, and running back on the spurs to the boundary of the Tuapeka Hundred. London, December 2. Ignati«ff represents Russia at the European conference. The Grand Duke Nicholas started for Kischenoffto assume command of Russian army. Wheat market strong. New Zealand sla. to s'2s. December 3. Bismarck, when speaking at a parliamentary dinner, said he did not yet despair of peace, but feared it was improbable, and he thought it inopportune to counsel Russia at the present time. He thought that when !>' ussia made an advance upon the Turkish Provinces Turkey would dread fighting. Germany might be able to mediate, and hoped England would not openly declare war against t!ussia, but would only act indirectly, similarly to the Turkish, action towards servia. should Austria be drawn into war, and danger threaten her existence as an Empire, the Germans duty would be to come forward and help her. Austria possessed greater vitality than inany thought, and he had told Salisbury so. December 5. The English press is unanimous in its views respecting the impolicy of permitting Russia to take Mtamboul—otherwise it speaks against helping Turkey. Great importance is attached to Bismarck's remarks regarding Austria anr; Germany in regard to the Eastern question will tend to localise the war, should it break out. The Porte is hastening to promulgate a new Constitution before the conference of the European Powers can notify its disapproval of the present administration of affairs. The French Ministry have resigned, owing'to adverse vote.

XOSB OF THE STEAMSHIP OTAGO. The circumstances of rhe loss of the Otago, related by Ca ptuin Calder, are : Was on deck umil tin If-past one o'clock on Monday morning, and I ben went to the cajin, leaving the second r.ffioer in charge. Weather then clear. Instructed second officer to call him if any change occuried hi the weather, especially if it came on (hick or hazy, At half past two o'clock the captain was aroused by hearing t e second officer shout " starboa> d," and then run aft to the helm.-m:>n. The cuptain hurried on deck, and the first thing his eyes res'ed on was a.huge clitl towering above his head ; and the next ''nstant the steamer struck and van in o a 'edge of roi'ks, and rested Micro. Very soon after this the water rose in the hold, .nd put out the fires. The boats then cleaved away, and, when daylight came, the passengers (ladies aud children firs!, and luugage, were landed on Sandy Beach, a little north of the wreck. If the steamer's head had been a little more to the southward when .-he snick, she would have run right, into it aud hav-3 found herself in a sort of natuial dock. T)ii= p'ace is about half a mile north of Ohasland's Mistake, at the Uluff. Survey-ors-inspected the steamer, and found her fore foot shattered tor ten feet upwards. The water in.-ide the hull is exactly level with the wuter outeid-, thus showing the bulkhead mus have givt-n way. The machinery and hull have become disconnected - The surveyors were of opinion t fat the whole bottom is ' in., and the sides of the hull are being gr-m'»d down by Iriction on the rocks. If the weather cotinive fine it might - - be possible to save a great deal of the cargo, but, in the event of a heavy sea setting in, the hullisiiot likely to hold together. Amongst the cargo wt-re thi*p=j hnxes of gold, containing SOOOozs., shipped at, Greymouth hy the National Bank for transmission to Melbourne, It waß fullv insured, 'ihe Otago is underwritten for £ 10,000. Ali the passengers were brought on to l)u..edtn. Cap ain Oalder was presented with a testimonial for his intrepidity. 'lt is supposed one of the passengers, who joined the ship at Lyttelton, is '--

■;. WOOL HUSKS!"; ' .• Cwgille m& (Jo. have receive tk* following wool cablegram *iafc>6- th* -irh inn*.:—

Since our last, the attendance of home and foreign buyers hare. inereased, and sttlec closed firm. Prices as high es &t any period oP'theperieK, and the total quantity catalogued iin'3 series u 206,000 bales.