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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1053, 31 January 1878, Page 2

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CABLE NEWS.

(PBOM OUB OWN CuHBBSPONDKNT.) Dunedin, This day, 10.40 a.m. Mr Donald Keid states that he intends resigning his seat in the House of Representatives. The Colonial Bank meeting yesterday adopted the report, and Mr R. Oliver was elected a director. The Medical Association met last night to consider Dr Murphy's conduct in the recent Proudfoot case. The doctor admitted committing an error of judgment, and after some discussion the Association accepted that explanation. The ship County of Peebles arrived on Tuesday from London with 37 passengers. The weather throughout Otago is reported as magnificent for the ripening of crops. At the Acclimatisation Society's meeting a letter, re trout, was read from Mr J. S. Worthington, and he was elected a member of Committee. The Union Bank pay a dividend of 16 per cent. Markets—Wheat is nominally 4s 9d, inferior, 3s 3d; oats, 3s 7d for milling, feed, 3s sd; barley, 3s 3d to 3s lOd. Fat cattle are down to 18s to 22s the hundred. The Australian 11 beat 22 of the Wellington cricketers with ten wickets to spare. Acceptances for the Wellington Cup areAriel, Danebury, Trump Card, Songster, Nector, Lara, Otapu" Lad vof the Lake, Ouida, Standard Bearer and Glenary. ■ ». The Premier and Mr Sheehan left Alexandra for Waikato yesterday. Tawhao Rewi and 1000 natives will attend the meeting at Te Yopua. Mr G. E. Barton, lawyer, at Wellington, for Jersisting in incessant insolence, to the Chief ustice and Judge Richmond, was yesterday ignominiously sent to gaol for a month. Cable communication is still interrupted;

[reuteb's teleoams to the peess agency.] Melbourne, All Judges of County, Mines, and Insolvency Courts, Chairman of General Sessions (except fourreintstated),and eighty-fivefurther removals in various departments have been gazetted. The Tanjore, with the Suez mail, arrived at King George's Sound on Sunday. At the University Regatta, Sydney, on Saturday, Trickett had a walk over for the championship of the Australasian Colouies. The Mayor has convened a public meeting in obedience to the wishes of a large number of the ratepayers, to consider the political position.