By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 416, 22 March 1877, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(Ei'om our own correspond-;n'.)

Ihmedin, Thursday Afternoon. Moanatairi shares, v.bieh a few days acco could have been bought for a few shillings, ure now worth £9. " °

It. H. Shcrrin lias been arrested at Waimate. for libelling ueed, editor of the ' Guardian.'

A London cablegram to the ' Star', dated 17th iust, states wool sides are marked Inconsiderable lan nor. Puces rang d a pinny lower than at die opening. IJU,UUO bales arc withdrawn.

The combined Eleven v;nn tl.-e cricket match by 45 runs. The Colonials, in the second innings, made lnj). farkes has formed :i Mini; irv.

Eden ' -ouiity lias a loptcd on'live Act. At Inveroaigill John Monagban has been arrested for the murder of Uhonias Casserly The men had gone to town lo keep St. Fatrick's x)ay. Loin stayed at the ijiberuian Hotel. On Monday morning Monnghan entered Casserly's room, and wanted lo ''seeout" an unsettled' dispute. This was smoothed over, and the parties went to the bar. 130(3> seem to have gone to led then, overcome- with drink. S-.metimo afterwards Cassei'ly was found, lying on the Hour, with a cut on the back of his head, and blood about floor ami walls. Cassevly was removed, to the Hospital, where,- on hem.; told there was no chance-of recovery, he said, "Jack Monaghau killed me.' iio died the same morning. The Waste Land Board has decided on cutting up run..3l into three of 9000, SQoO, and 4UUO acres, the two larger to be leased for ten years, and iho third for inive.. The City Council has decided to abolish the Fever Hospital. Much opposition is shown to the proposed additional rate.

The Canterbury land sales for ?,larcli irnarter amount to il\'i7,UO(i. ft is intended to frame a code of regulations dealing wiih every description of mining, and applicable to the whole Colony ;and, for the guidance of the Government, a Commission, consisting of three of the seiror Wardens, have been appointed, to sit at Wellington to consider ami report n-wi question. The ' -I'oininissioii consists of the' Senior Warden at t .e Thames, scinor Warden in Otago, and Warden Chas. jJroad, representing the West Coast Got. Uio Ids.

At the \vasic Laud Hoard yesterday-thoic was a petition from .seniors at Hyde requesting a lilock of •)!.'•"'.> acres tube proclaimed open for selection on agricultural, leases mi Deep Dell run ; also, that -_'OOU acres bo o[>cned under deferred payments on -Main's run. M'KeiTow's report on the .Moonlight Flat petition V/ere read. Bastings said ho, bad ser-n reports from officials like the one iirst read, and ihe very land reported upon was nowyieiding sixty l.nsliels to the acre. These olticial reports did not iiu down. If tliu -people wanted land for settlement let them have it, even if there were thou-r.nds of acres in. the market already, it would he better to give them a thousand acres too muck than a thousand acres too little If forty people who =--11. d the petition were honest in their statement that they would all be applicants for land, and took up 200 acres each, mere land than was applied for would he taken. The t.'bief Com.Mis-ioucr said no dependence was to be placed on the statement that all who si_;n the memorial will take up land. Jjiaterworl.h said ( here was something genuine in it. On the su iestk n of the Chief. Commissioner, it was decided to refer the petition to the Warden for report. <*, DTJNKPIN RACES. Maiden Plate.—This was practically a walk over for Little Dan. Cup.—Fishhook, I; Hippocampus, 2; Fallacy, 3. Fifteen started. A capital start was made, Danebury leading, closely followed by Hippocampus. Fishhook and the latter ran for some distance, closely locked, seven lengths ahead of all the rest. A capital race ensued between them—Fishhook winning easily by two lengths. Guy Fawkes was fourth. Right Bower, when well forward, broke down, something wrong with his leg. Time—4mm. ssec. Very fast, considering state of ground. Weather wet. Six thousadd people present.