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Evening Star, Issue 3093, 17 January 1873, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

[From the New Zealand Press Association.) Queenstown, January 17. Atlas won the Grand .">tand Han iicap, Taffrail the Wakatip Handicap, and Merrythought the Si lling 'Hack Race, Tffire was no Maiden Plate, and the Hurdle Race has been postponed till to-day. Auckland, January 16. The sum of Ll9 L’U, additional ,-übscriplions, has been received for the M arL u j ’a Bay settlers relief fund. lhe City Improvement Commissioners ref use d to let the Albert Barracks to Miller aud Peicival for an Industrial Exhibition similar to the Christchurch one, on tho 29ih of January. Tl.e buLhers’ assistants are agitating fora decrease in the hours of labor. ■ uokland imports last quarter were L 385,385. Arrived.—Bella Mary, srom Hobart Town. She reports hops are dull; wheat, 6s to 6s 3d ; flour, Ll4 ; potatoes, 6s to Bs. Christchurch, January 16. Mr C. W. Turner leaves for London tomorrow, by the Dacota, to initiate the bu iness of the New Zealand .Shipping Company. He will probably remain a year iu England.

UNPUBLISHED TELEGRAMS. [Per Rangitoto.] Hokitika, January 16. Sydney, January 9. The proprietors of the Lambt n Colliery agreed to the miners’ demands. Work w.is resumed to-day. Other pits continue the lock-out. Brisbane, January 9. A Treasury return shows the nett increase of the year’s revenue proper to be L 189,183. The expenditure has increased L 70,364 : total year’s revenue receipts, L 136,337. Arrived—Lamers'nageu, from Hamburg, with German iramigran s. Rockhampion, January 9. Mrs North has been remanded on a charge of murdering her paramour.