By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 416, 29 March 1877, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.)

Dunedin, Thursday Afternoon. Oxford and Cambridge ran a dead heat for the Univerisity boat rare.

Austerlitz won the Gmnd National Bteeple chase at Liverpool.

Cargills received the following telegram, dat d 26th :—Wool sales closed dull, without further change in prices. November advance lost. Prices as low as closing' sales of third series last year in August. Prices for superior classes only well maintained. General state of trade unsatisfactory. No confidence in future. Quantity withdrawn bales, including 380,000 bales, expected for next sales.

The Oamaru 'Times' states that Parlia ment will meet on July 6.

Dr Doyle, of Wellington and Charles Findlay, of Hokitika, are candidates for Totara seat.

Travers ha? been elected for Wellington, the polling being—Travers, 572 ; Hutcheson, 563. There was great excitement. It has been resolved to land all the Gloucester passengers free from small pox on Quarantine Island. The rest will be kept on the ship. jxt tne Waste Lund Board yesterday a letter was read from Mai", who says that the most of the signatures' to the petition re the opening up of lnnd in his district are in the same handwriting, and were got by a paid canvasser.

Arrived at Port Chalmers —Wild Deer, from Glasgow The Moauatiri Mine bids fair to be a second* Caledonian Share* preWy firm at £l9, ex dividend. Three days crushing yielded 5300 ozs. A Wellington doctor, who recently bought 175 shares at 195., has just sold them at £22, mating a clear profit, of £3685. A London cablegram says that the Russian press accuse England of trying to force that country to go to war.