By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 410, 3 February 1877, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(Prom our own correspondent.) ■■■■• ——— —« Donedinj- Thursday "Afternoon. The City Counc-1 invite designs for Town Hall and Municipal T buildinss, to float £30,000. The English, cricketers at Auckland were all out for 225, Chaiiwood making 63, Greenwood 11, Ulyetfc 35, Selby 44, .Emmet 12, aud H.til 26. Avmitage was the only one who did not score. '1 he Auckland fielding wa , on the whole, very loose. The first innnings terminated for lOn, Tates being the highest with 31, Robinson (not; out) 13; Lynch 17, Dnfar 10. There" eleven ducks. Shaw bowled 220 balls for cfSTnrns and 13 wickets. In the second innings Auckland maaew— Buckland being the highest with 17, and Armitage next with 13. The Englishmen just played with them. They leave for Wellington to-day. At VVanganui Eodger's, Armstrohgj has given liiinseiLap as the murderer of Redbill at the-*Vhame»-iii IOOTThe Rotorua.jjwith the English will arrive here on Friday, The Waste Lands Board has decided to declare land at the Waikaia a Gold fields.:

.Duncan M'Kenzle was committed for trial to-day in the Police Court for attempting td~ - commit suicide by strychnine. The evidence discloses no foundation for the rumor of jealousy as the cause. ■.

CABLEGRAMS. The ' Star' has the following : Y . ...-., . . London, Jan". 21. Sir Henry Elliott, before leaving Cohstar.-' tinople, expressed lis firm belief in Tarkey's future, because she, af her own accord, was introducing much-needed reforms. The Grand Viaier has invited the Princes of Servia and Montenegro to enter into peace nego-' tiations. The Porte i 3 vigorously proscvut-" ing rjforms. Midhat Pasha has decided on disarming the civil pcpillation Prince Milan was willing to negotiate for peace. The cattle plague is extending to Germany and Eastern EtireDe.

The London wool sales closed o*ri tie 3rd of December. It will long be remembered by the trade, owing to the rapid advance iiiall sorts. The market closed at the highest quotations, and with a firm tone. Every indication of consumption on a large scale.