BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2661, 28 August 1871, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(FROM OREvILLE’s TELEC4RAM COMPANY, beuter’s AGENCY.) Wellington, Ang. 28. The Education Bill was discussed at a meeting of Catholics yesterday. The meeting was generally approved of, but exception was taken to the constitution of the Board, and to the compulsory clauses; and in respect to these, petitions to the Assembly had been adopted. The Luna has arrived from Hokitika, bringing with her the staff of the late Westland Indepetxdent. Most of the Hansard men have resumed work at 15d The printers offer to resume •work, pending a full enquiry into the circumstances of the case. Auckland, August 26. At an inquiry Inspector Bullen and interpreter Puckey, proved that the Maori woman at Ohinemuri was murdered. The murderer is unknown. The nomination for City West is fixed for (September Ist. Williamson has issued an address, and received a requisition with 400 signatures. Chief llewi is near the Waikato frontier, preparing for a great Native meeting. The reported coal discovered by the New Thames Company just formed has compelled the old company to reduce the price of gas to ten shillings per thousand feet. The first sod of the Kiapara Kailway will be turned by the DeputySuperintendent on Thursday next. At auction, Duncan’s (Dunedin) silk dressed flour sold for LI4 ; Canterbury flour, in hundred pound bags at LI3 ; Otago oatmeal at LIT ; Port Cooper cheese, atsd to ojd per lb ; bacon and hams, 7£d to 8d ; and Dunedin soap, 30s. Wheat, ex Novelty, sold at 8s 5s 3d, to Gs. Clark Bros, report a fall in the share market. There has been a slight panic in Caledonians, which are now quoted at L 125 ; Thames’s, at L 2 4; Tookey’s, at L3l ; Otago's, at L 4 ; Monaitari’s, at L 5 12s Cd ; Nonpariel, at L 5 15s ; Alburnia’s, at L 3 10s ; and Central Italy’s, at L2 ss,