BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3408, 23 January 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

„ ~. .Biverton, January 22. 1 —There is grfeat indignation here regarding'the ■ Governor’s visit. The Governor promised th be 1 here at one o’clock, but did not arrive till after four o’clock.: The - town !Was -shut up as on a holiday. A cavalcade of farmers assembled at Waimatunh Bridge; many rode twenty or thirty, miles to be present. Previous to leaving Inveroargill, the Governor said; he would' not attend lunch, or ha ve acavalcade accompanying him. He stopped twenty minutes at Riverton. The people thoroughly disgusted, and consider the Governor. has wantonly insulted 1 them. His health-was I coqsPkWNisly.omitted from .the ,programing atl the lunch, as it would have teon hissed. After I the programme was over somebody proposed it, but the.people refused to drink.it. i'.; f .„' ‘ , Wellington, January 22,\ The regatta was a'deaid failure. The wind' was so strong that the course had to be shifted, wbiidi all the arrangements. Tbeyacfit Hind Upset in a squall, and if is'not yef ascertained; if one man was not drowned, though he was a good swimmer. One of .the two saved could not swim. • ■ . Auckland, January 23. The shipwrights have struck for 12s a day for old work, and intend striking on Monday forlls.fprnew-work •. A' Turkish Baths Company has been successfully floated,' ahd buildings will ’ shortly V be erected at Onehunga. _ New Plymouth, January 2?, i; The libel cases-r-Major Atkinson and Tylr Bayley v. Mr: Whitdombe—resulted ip the committal of the r defecidgpt. i 3PM'' attempts were made to compromise the affair, but the defendant refused to sign an apology acknowledging that the imuputations of dishonest conduct in squibs were made merely in the exciteT e ° ver the Superintendgncy election. The defendant conducted his own case. Bail was accepted—himself in LIOO, and two sureties of Ls(leach. ; . ■ , . ' , ■ Alexandra, January 23. It is reported at the Te Mitvthatthd Ngntihana have sold the block ofMand kt Maungatautare, and that Purukutu swears vengeance against the sellers. Takersi has gone to Cambridge to inquire if the report bp true, GrKjEMOuth, January 23. Chas. Sommers, bookseller, was yesterday fined L 25 and costs, and goods valued L,30 confiscated for passing an entry on a case ■ -Without declaring that : it contained % gross of playing cards, \ - .; ;; : i - •

The entries Jockey Club Handicap are Calumny,’ 9st 2lb; Hatred, 9st : ; Yatterina, Bst 7lb; Malvina, Bst 31b ; Kakapo, Bst 21b; Malice, Bst; Gossip, 7st 111b ; Lacerifeed, 7st 51b; Taurunga, 7st; and Azuceria filly, 6st 51b. The race is to be run for on the 17th March. Christchurch, January 23. ' . The Premier has arrived from Duntdin, and is the guest of Mr Studholmc, M.H.R. j At a meeting of the provisional directors of the "Woollen Manufactory Compauy yesterday, it was resolved that the capital be L50,0G0, in L 5 shares. The Compauy promises to be a success. Lyttelton, January 23. ! Tho Cardigan Castle sails to-morrow, for* London, with a cargo of wool, flour, wheat, and tallow, valued at L 97,800; and eleven passengers, including Captain Gibson, the Port officer.