BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3305, 23 September 1873, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

CiuiisTCiiuiicr, September 22. Up to the time of the closing of the list to-night, the total number of shares in the National Insurance Co. applied for here was over 1)5,000. There are twenty-three cases of fever at the quarantine station; amongst the passengers per Punjaub. Eight o| the cases aj’i considered claiigf rows. /T3 children attended the District Schools to-day. The conference of clergymen held to-day was private. Wkllisoton, September 22. A detachment of Armed Constabulary, for the Waikato, sailed in the Luna to-day. The argument regarding the William Tap* scott prisoners was continued to-day. The annual report of the New Zealand In* atitnte shows that during the past live years 41;") communications were read before the different societies incorporated with the Institute, and 2SG of those communications were printed at length in the “Transactions.” The members of the Institute number 5t53. Tue accounts show a balance in hand of LIBI 13s 3d. Captain Moresby, of H.M.S. Basilisk, is to deliver a lecture on New Guinea; September 23. The Independent to-day alleges that a disposition Was shoWn ’oh the part of' the Gd* verhmeat yesterday to 'allow 1 their pf hpo^aiijj

for Provincial borrowing to stand over until next session, and that a canvass was made amongst Government supporters to induce them to agree to this course, but that the Government are now determined not to depart from their programme, but will submit to the House a series of Bills authorising certain Provinces to borrow under the terms and general conditions contained in the original Bill thrown out by the Upper House. The tender of Mr John Beaton, of Wellington, for the erection of the I’aranaki Steel and Iron Company’s furnace has been accepted, tbe amount being L 3219. A cablegram has been sent Home for the price of firebricks. • Auckland, September 22. The share list of the National Insurance Company closed here to-day. The number of shares applied for is 82,296. Robert Flood, who was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for stealing during the late fire, proves, on inquiry, to have been wholly innocent. A communication has been sent to Wellington to secure his release from a °*’ September 23. By the capsizing of a boat in the harbor to-day, a fisherman named Fahey was drowned. ... The Paterson to-day takes a large quantity of railway sleepers for Wellington, and telegraph poles for Napier. Grahamstown, September 22. James Sampson and David Sampson, charged with stealing specimens from the Golden Crown mine, were brought up at the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day, and remanded. Bail was allowed them. Alexandra (Waikato), September 22. It is reported that Purukutu is between Wbarepapa and Kihikihi. The Natives are tired of him. New Plymouth, September 22. The Native meeting at Pariaka was largely attended. Taurua said that should a road and telegraph line be made through Pariaka, none should obstruct it. Te Whiti told the meeting not to listen to Taurua, he being a returned prisoner. Nelson, September 22. Mrs Smith, wife of the captain of the English barque Anna Braginton, fell down dead in the street. Over 7,000 shares in the National Insurance Co. have been applied for here.