BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3010, 11 October 1872, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

{Prom the New Zealand Press Association.)

Hokitika, Oefc. II

The Tarawa arrived here at 10 o’clock last night. Cargo for Hokitika, 100 tons ; 12 passer; :;ers.

Melbourne, Oct. 5. Tfie Education debate is still proceeding, and tie Government is likely to a majority in the Assembly. The Legislative Council has ’ejected the Permissive and Labor Bills, and struck out the main principles of the Mining o \ Private Property Bill. The attention of the Government has been called to the rejection of these measures, and they acknowb dged the responsibility of the matter, and promised to adopt necessary measures. The miners arc returning from Charters Towers in numbers. Tenders have been accepted for 35 miles of railway construction from Newstead to Maryborough, and from Burrumheet to Beaufort— the former at the rate of L 2,700, the latter at L 2164 per mile. Alexander and James Govan have been committed for trial on a charge of conspiring to defraud. The Australian Alliance Insurance Company has declared a dividend of 10 percent., with L 32.000 carried to the reserve fund. The racehorses are arriving from Sydney. Mr De Haga, formerly of the Lyster Opera Comp my, blew out his brains yesterday, Weechurch, the convict, who was recently respited for a murderous attack on the In-spector-General of Prisons, attempted to commit suicide by opening a vein in his arm. A Ballarat firm has accepted a tender to construct fifteen locomotives to cost over L 50.000. , , , Commercial. —Sales of over 12,000 bushels of New Zealand wheat have been made up to 6s mostly for shipment. Oats aredull, and only a moderate business is doing in the import markets. Bank stocks are in demand for investment. The revenue returns for the year show an increase of L 212,464. The Alhambra leaves for the Bluff on the 12 th.

S'i UNEY. The Rev. Adam Thomson has been appointed Principal of the Presbyterian College. Last quarter’s revenue was the largest ever collected here in a single quarter. Major Fitzsimmons, of the permanent Defence Force, died suddenly. Rapid progress is being made in the construction and fitting out of the new schooners for the South Seas. More diamonds have been found at Oberop. The Brewster’s cargo of Californian wheat sold at 5s 9d. The Hero leaves for Auckland early next week. The steamer Queensland met with a terrific hurricane outside of Brisbane. The mate was washed overboard, and the steamer was buried in water repeatedly, and nearly swamped. By the aid of all hands at the pumps the vessel was enabled to be put back to Brisbane.

Adelaide. Scott’s section at Mount Pleasant has been formed into a company of L20,00Q shares. All the shaves were taken up in two hours. The Consolidation Loan Bill has been read a second time. The Adelaide Cup of 200 so vs., with a sweepstakes of 15 sovs. added, is to be run in May, Bishop Quinn, of Bathurst is likely to fill the vacant Bishopric. Breadstuff's very dull. Wheat, 5s 6d. Auckland, October?. A large and influential meeting has been held at Papakura, and the following resolutions were passed unanimously;—lst “That this meeting'views with great alarm the proposal of the Government to return to the Natives the confiscated lands, as such an act would be a bad precedent and disastrous to the Colony, more especially so to the North Island.” 2nd. “That the meeting regrets the Government have resplved to discontinue the grants to road boards, and heard witty great surprise that the Colonial Treasurer should have stated to the House that fhesg grapts were received with indifference by the road boards as tending to cause direct taxation.”

A meeting of the Waikato Road Boards has been called to protest against the discontinuance of the grant. The Waikato Times says that the immigrants would not have been settled but for the work done by the Road Boards and adds : “If the grants be discontinued the settlement of Waikato must cease. It only now remains in the hands of the settlers to hold meetings protesting against a Government continuing in power who spend large sums of money in the importation of population while at the same time they pursue a course towards the settlers already in the country, which, if it does not drive them away disgusted, will contract their operations, and keep thorn poor, acd thereby retard the progress of the colony.” A party returned from the Bay of Islands reports a quicksilver mine there that gives favorable prospects. Henry Cuthbertson, a clerk in the Post Office, has been com mitt d for stealing a money letter. He endeavored to escape in the Nebraska to-day, but was discovered after the steamer had left the harbor, and placed on board a schooner bound in and was brought to Auckland.