BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3220, 16 June 1873, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(From the New Zealand Press Association.) RECEPTION OF THE GOVERNOR AT WELLINGTON. Wellington, June 14. The Luna, with Sir James and Lady Fergusson, arrived here at six o’clock this evening. An immense crowd assembled; all the shipping at the wharf burned blue lights and fired rockets, the fire brigade all carried torches, and the Governor was enthusiastically cheered. The Ministry and ActingGovernor received him. He is to be sworn in at half-past eight to-night. June 15. The Governor was sworn in by tcrohlight last night, in the presence of a large assemblage. A proclamation has been issued of his having assumed the Governorship. Ministers have been reappointed, and the Rev. F. A. Hare is appointed Private Secretary. Jane 16. The Governor’s levee to-day was very largely attended. Addresses .were presented by the Corporation, Freemasons, and Oddfellows.

Christchurch, June 14. The Provincial Council to-da^ unanimously adopted the following resolution :—“ That this Council desires to express the opinion that, in any legislation affecting the University of New Zealand, it would be inexpedient that any alteration should be made in the present state of the law, whereby the benefits arising from that institution should be monopolised by any particular Province or Provinces. That this resolution be forwarded to the Colonial Secretary and to the Speakers of both Houses of the General Assembly.” At the inquest yesterday on the body of Walter Aston Dearden, who had his leg broken by a coach accident on the Sumner road, on May 24, so badly as to render amputation necessary, and who died at the hospital on June 9, the jury returned a verdict of “ Manslaughter” against Thomas Osborn Crisp, the driver of the coach. Ihe evidence showed that Crisp had driven an overloaded coach, without break and without breeching on the horses, down the steep slippery incline, at the bottom of which the coach capsized, injuring Dearden and other passengers. Auckland, June 15. The Government have offered rewards for the apprehension of Sullivan’s murderers, as follow:—For Purukutu, L 1,000; for Hori te Turua, LI,OOO ; for Herewini, L 50 0; and for Whera, LSOO. Large numbers of Natives are assembling at Te Kuiti. The Thomsons have gone and thrown in their lot with Tawhaio. In the event of strife they can bring 200 Ngatihana into the field against us.