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Evening Star, Issue 3403, 17 January 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Gatlin’s Eiveb, January 17. . A telegram 'from the scene of the - wreck 6f the Surat states that the sea is smooth, and the cargo is being got out. The engine and . pumps were put on hoard to-day. , i>- :* -5 , ■ ’ - ■ i , Wellington, January 16.'. ■ Fulton, late carpenter of the ship William Tapscott, has sued the American Consular agent for the value of His tools, estimated at L 50.. The tools were taken away in the vessel The-case has been adjourned. The Provincial Council is prorogued. January 17.' Mr Hutchison, Mayor of Wanganui, has taken premises in Wellington for the purpose of starting a new paper. The Hon, Donald M‘Lcan, who has been at Horowhenua some, time, has succeeded in completely settling the dispute amongst the Native tribes} and has also effected the purchase of the Waikani block of 22,500 acres. ot the Harowhenualand, CHBiSTCHUROHi January 16. Public feeling in favor of an Interprovincial regatta is strong, but boating men are very apathetic as yet as to practice. Auckland, January 16. The, following are the acceptances -for the Papakura Handicap :—Yatterina, Parawhenua, Fawn, Flying Jib, Dainty, and Kingfisher. :•■■■! - . The boat’s crew of the schooner Dauntless had » wonderful escape from drowning in attempting to cross the Kaipara bar. They were picked Up in an exhausted state by the pilot cutter, after being an hour in the water. Afrihespecial meeting of the Harbor Board to-day to discuss the Graving Dock it by Mr Moriarty should be adopted. Iq the Supreme.Court to-day an action was hrought by Mwy Anno Stailey against John

Lamand and Captain H. Anderson, to recover; certain subscriptions collected on her behalf.’ The jury gave a verdict on all the issues in : •favor of the plaintiff. ' ' t Napier, January 16. At the District Court to-day, James Griffin; was sentenced to two years’ hard labor for damaging a hotel; and Thomas Scott, for doing grievous bodily harm to Patrick M‘Hale, at Poverty Bay, to ono year’s im prisonment. Taueanga, January 17. Mr Bqdell reports several inquiries for farms and stations. Colonel Moule is inspecting the Constabulary. £