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Evening Star, Issue 2947, 30 July 1872, Page 3

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(FROM OREVILLE’S TELEGRAM COMPANY.)

Auckland, July 80, 11.27 a m. Arrived: the Prima Donna, from Fiji. She brings papers to the 17th. . . b The Rev J Kettleton, Wesleyan minister, left for Svdncv. Previous to his departure, at a public meeting he was presented with a testimonial and purse of a hundred soverC,(f eorae Derby, a passenger -to New Zealand, was drowned at Lomo Lomo during a severe gale. . . The early July crops suuered little. Several small vessels were wrecked at Janinna Bay. , , , The settlers are obliged to watch day and niedit as the mountaineers have assumed a ve ry menacing attitude. The settlers are exneoting their descent upon the coast. 1 ° 1.12 p.m. Arrived.— Celestial Queen, from London. Christchurch, July 30, 11.57 a.m. The polling to-day for a member of the Provincial Council, in the room of Mr Hawkes, resulted in the return of Mr Andrews. a working man, who secured 344 votes to Sir Cracroft Wilson’s 300. 3,30 p.m. Sir J Cracroft Wilson has been elected lor Heathcote in the General Assembly Without opposition. Mr Wynn Williams retiring for private reasons. A vote thanks to the hon. John Hall for his faithful services was carried by acclamation. A Rechabite tent is to be established in Christchurch, A public meeting for the purpose to be held to-morrow, Mr Saunders, of Nelson, in the chair. Great satisfaction is felt here at the action taken by the Congress of Superintendents relative to railway works being brought under Provincial control. . Vaccination is being earned on jextensively, and is resorted to principally by Natives. Wellington, July 30, 11.57 a m. Dr Buchanan, of the Nebraska, writes a long letter to the Press, endeavoring to prove that small-pox never existed on board Rangitolo, s.s,, from the West Coast.

Lawrence, July 30, 3.7 p.m. A public meeting was held in the school house at Roxburgh last night, to denounce the sale of the Cargill and Anderson block which is estimated to contain 10,000 acres of agricultural laud; also known to 1 e auriferous, and said to contain quartz rcc s. Resolutions were earned charging MtS’rs Reid and Mervyu with stating gross untruths in regard to the land.