BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 2920, 28 June 1872, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(from geeville’s telegram company, keutkr’s agents.)

Hokitika, June 28.

The Rangitoto left' Melbourne at 4 p.m. on the 22ud, and arrived in.the roadstead at 4.30 p.m. on the 27th. She brings eight saloon and thirty-one steerage passengers, together with 270 tons of cargo for all ports.

Melbourne, June 22,

The nominations for the re-election of the new Ministry show that five are opposed and two unopposed. It is believed all will be re-elected.

There has been a great exposure of manipulation of the Land Act, by permission,

evasion of penalties, and non-compliance with conditions, and also of corrupt subsidy given by the late Government. The Times and Mines, the late Ministerial journal, was subsidised at the rate of L7OOO a year in Government advertisements. It has been determined by the new vernment to nullify the San Francisco postal arrangement made with Mr Webb, and to rescind Mr Hock’s appointment. The new Government promise not to interfere with the fiscal policy for the present. James Stevenson, a new arrival by the Ben Ledi, from London, shot himself at Queonscliffe. Commercial.—For Tookeys, buyers offer L 9 sellers ask LlO 10s. Flour, Ll6 to Ll6 10a. Wheat, 7s io 7s 4d. Oats, 3s to 3s 3d. A line of 3,000 bushels of New Zealand oats sold at 3s. Sugars are firmly held for an advance. Sydney. Nicholls and Lester have been executed. Both admitted their guilt and the justice of their ef their sentence. They warned young men to profit by their sad example. Lester said, “ Send the news of my death to my mother in England.” The ship Annie Fish takes 343 bales of wool to San Francisco. Sailed : John Knox and Amateur for Lyttelton ; Hero and Camille for Auckland. Newcastle. Arrived : Star and Mary from Dunedin ; Amherst from Auckland. Sailed : Mary Miller and Colistra for Auckland j Anne Melhuish for Wellington. Adelaide. Bills have been introduced |to amend the Distillation and Board Acts, The Transcontinental Railway Bill is opposed in the Assembly. Commercial; Flour, Ll3 to Ll4; wheat, 5s lOd to 6s.

Wellington, June 27. The Agent-General’s despatches, received to day, announce t'.e sailing of the Halcione, for Wellington, with 50 cf Mr Brogden’s inmigrants, and 50 Scandinavian, and 140 British Government immigrants. The ship Friedburg was to leave Hamburg on the 18th May with a full complement of immigrants. The ship Hodwig was to leave Christiania on an early date for Napier, with 325 immigrants, being part of the 1200 sent for by the Superintendent of Hawke’s Bay, for a special settlement at the Seventy Milo Bush. The ship Celestial Queen had left for Auckland with 90 British immigrants. Advices have been received of the shipment of 600 tons of railway iron for Mr Brogden, as well as turn-tables and cranes for the Clutha line. Arrangements have been made with the Messrs Brogden for the passages of their laborers, the firm giving promissory notes at the rate of LlO per head. This sum has been fixed upon, as the firm will have the exclusive use of the immigrants’ services for some time. Dr Featherston asserts that the England’s passengers were carefully examined and inspected before the ship’s departure from London. A letter from Mr Hugh George, dated June 13, says that no arrangement has been made with Mr Vogel, and that it is very evident nothing can be done in that direction. Whatever arrangement is made must be that the w hole oi the Press of New Zealand be allowed to share in the telegrams on a fair footing.

Auckland, June 28. _ More rich specimens have been found in the Caledonian. The Green Hart crushing, Coromandel, averaged seven ounces to the ton from a hundredtons. A patient is in the hospital, supposed to be suffering from small pox. The symptoms are not serious. The patient will be isolated, and precautions against to spread of the disease have been Lyttelton, June 28. The Nevada arrived here at 1.45 p.m., 28 hours out. She sails at 3p m. for Dunedin.