BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2735, 22 November 1871, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from greville’s telegram company, reuter’s agents.) Wellington, November 22. It is understood that Ministers have definitely settled that the next session of the Assembly shall be hpld in Dunedin. The Governor goes to Wanganui on Monday to open the bridge there. His. Excellency will be accompanied by the Defence Minister and the local members of the Assembly. Auckland, November 20. At an influential meeting held here yesterday, it was resolved, to form a Bishop Patteson memorial fund, and the churches in the other Provinces, India, England, and Australia are to be invited to subscribe to the fund, which is to be devoted to the general purposes of the Melanesian Mission, and to building a missionary vessel to be called the Bishop Patteson. A memorial to

the Queen, calling for the suppression of the labor trait!c. was adopted. An Odd Fellows’ lodge has been opened at the Thames, A Choral Society of 100 members has been formed. .. The Caledonian’s lodged 329b ozs. for the week. '1 he fortnights yields were as f-1-lowa Kuranui Co., 294 oza ; Nonpanel, 215 ozs.; Una, 294 ozs. T The share market is quiet. Mr Lennox reports Caledonians, 1-90; Thames, Ll9 ; Tookey’s, L 35, rising; Alburnum, L 6 15s UJ; Inverness, 245. Arrived —Wellington, St Kilda, Star of the South. Sailed—Alice, for New York. Commercial. —Canterbury wheat dull at 5s 3d ; Hour, Ll2 to Ll3. Potatoes, glutted, ‘ The Fiji elections passed satisfactorily. The Government appears firmly established.

Christchurch, November 22,

A complimentary dinner was given last night to Mr Alfred Cox, who is leaving to settle at Waikato.