BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2743, 1 December 1871, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from greville’s telegram company, beuter’s agency.) Hokitika, December 1. The Rangitoto, Hugh Mackie commander, arrived here yesterday at 6 p.m. Her mails and passengers have just been landed (2.47 p.m-) She left Melbourne on the 25th, on which day the English mail had not been telegraphed from Adelaide, where she was four days overdue. Passengers.—Mrs Tobin and child, Mrs Thomas Duncan, MissWilmott, Mrs Fowler, Rev. James Lawrie, Messrs Croft, J. Hall, Wood, Gibert King, T. R. Batten, Frank Waterhouse. Cargo.—For Westland, 103 tons ; Nelson, 71 tons; Wellington, 51 tons; Lyttelton, 23 tons; Dunedin, 92 tons. Melbourne, November2s. The English mail is two days overdue here, and her non-arrival causes considerable anxiety and speculation. Reports have been received, via Sydney, of more massacres at the Melanesian Islands. Business still remains dull, awaiting mail advices. The Permissive Bill was thrown out by the Legislative Council, but the Telegraphic Message Copyright Bill, protecting messages for 30 hours from their receipt, passed. Parliament was prorogued, nominally to January oth, but the recess will probably last till April, Mr Yale has been sworn in as Commissioner of Customs, but bis re-election will probably be opposed. Franz Vogel, a cloth-worker from New Zealand, committed suicide by taking arsenic. The supposed cause of the act was disappointment in not pbtaining employment. Geary has been sentenced to death lor the murder of Brookhouse at Colac seventeen years ago. His wife was acquitted. Mr O’Shannassy is ill. The Victorian contingent of the eclipse expedition, numbering about two dozen persons, left for Cape Sidmouth via Sydney. Rosenwax, the levanting pawnbroker, is under examination.

Sydney. Frank Brothers have suspended payment, with debts to the a'jiiouut pf ‘L40,000. 'The ■Government’are likely to sustain a defeat on the Border Customs duties. If so, they will accept it as a vote of want uf confidence. Sixty pure-bred rams have been shipped for California. The sailing of the Nebraska has been delayed until to-day (the 25th). A handsome monument of Bishop Fatteson is to be erected he re.

The wool sales have been dull and inaui mate, owing to the absence of English ad> vices.

Adelaide" The ministerial crisis continues. The Government has been memorialised not to dissolve Parliament, but to dismiss his responsible advisers. There is considerable excitement. Sugar has advanced 34s per ton. The wheat market is quiet and inactive, pending the arrival of the English mail. Launcesi on. The body of a child was found in the Tamar, and a verdict of murder by some person unknown returned. Wanganui. December 1. ' Yesterday the Governor visited the native settlement at Putiki. There were grand war dances and speeches, the burden of the latter being that the prisoners now confined in the Dunedin gaol might be released. Mr M'Leau declined to give any pledge, but promised that the Government would consider the matter. Frank Evans, clerk to Mr Roberts, solicitor, has been arrested on a charge of stealing deeds. Ryan, of the World Circus troupe has been committed for trial for stealing L3O from a Maori aboard the Steamer. Auckland, November 27. The estimated revenue for the year is L 121.998, and the expenditure L 121,252, including L4OOO for a new hospital. The fortnight’s crushing of the Caledonian yielded 6033 ozs. A dividend of L 5 has been declared. It is reported that gold has been seen in the lower level at Tookey’s boundary. Cleare, the champion sculler of Auckland, has been forbidden by his doctor to form one of the provincial crew for the Christchurch Regatta, owing to his suffering from disease of the heart. Share Market.—Caledonian, L 80; Tookey, L 42 ; Thames, LlB 10s ; Alburnia, L 6 10s ; Moantaris, 84s; Inverness (rising), 40s. I ,