By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 412, 15 February 1877, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

{From our own correspondent.) **—. ■ Dunedin, Thursday Afternoon. The Education Board has appointed Smith; of Oaniaru, Commercial Master at the High ScbooL The Waste Lands Board has decided to at once throw open 5000 acres on deferred payments on Elock 10, Glehkenich, which is the best land in Mackenzie's run. The damage by the .iNelson floods is put down at £30,00(K The steamer Halcyon has been wrecked at jßiverton. .No liveS lost. It is reported that Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hall, of 'Frisco mail contract fame, have been killed by a railway accident in America. Pain, Clerk of the Waimate Eoad Board has been arrested for embezzling £9BB. Win. M 'lntosh has been killed at Eiverton by a dray accident. Pearce has resigned for Wellington City." Travers is a candidate'. The Englishmen won the match against Taranaki. Scores—Taranki, 32 and 47; Englishmen, 80. The match at Nelson was' commenced yesterday—Jupp, not out, 3Q; Ckarlwood, 3S; Selby, not out, 68. Not-' withstanding, Nelson fielded and bowled well. King Phillip and Pungawerewere are first favorites for the cup. ■ Danebury and Middleton have been purchased for Nelson at £SUQ. Puriri has come up in the betting with a bound. London telegrams state the decision of the Privy Council upholds the ruling of Molesworth, that the Crown is entitled to gold on private lands granted by the Crown. The election of a Committee oi Management for the Melbourne Hospital is going on amid great excitement. The Catholics and Protestants aie ranged against one another. A resolution by the Victorian publicans, to close their houses on Sunday, is likely to be abandoned, for want of unanimity. The Vigilance Committee are unwilling to prosecute, and the system of espionage i 3 generally condemned by the trade. LA.TEK. Sir D. Monro died to-day. At the cricket match at Nelson to-day, Jupp hit the wicket at 34; Greenwood, l.bw, S2. At 2 the score stood at 194 for tiree wickets. A cablegram, dated the 12th, says that the Liberal organs are loud in their praise of the attitude of the English Government at the Conference. CABLEGRAMS. London. Feb. 11. The United States Electorate Commission, of Judges of the Supreme Court and Members of the.Senate, has decided to give Hayes the Florida vote* Feb. 12. Peace negotiations between the Porte and Servia have t>een resumed: