BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3422, 9 February 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

_ , Christchurch, February?. Dr. Wxlmhurst, of the ship Isles of the South, has been arrested on a warrant for embezzliug medical comforts and selling them. , , Nelson, February 7. Ihe scores fer the Colonial prize firing are—* Crossman, 99; Moore, 95 ; Burns, 83. Ihe Provincial Council was prorogued today. M f^ r , Gordon, after an inspection, complimented the City Artillery and Rifle companies. He said that when his report was sent in, he believed that reductions would take place in the Force, and that many of the sedentary V olunteers would be made to resign. ■wn •! . .1, Wellington, February 7. w mist the correspondence was proceeding between the General Government and the Provincial Government of Wellington upon the subject of bridges, roads, and other works of the Appropriation Ordinance, lately passed by , e . , Provincial Council—an appropriation which was about L 50,000 on account of an anticipated loan -it was discovered that the Provincial Auditor had signed a warrant for the whole amount appropriated. This act is likely to lead to his dismissal, and it is also probable the Ordinance will be disallowed, rTII „ February 9, The Hon. Mr Vogel and the Hon. Mr Richardson left for Nelson, in the Luna, last night. Auckland, February 7. Ihere was a terrific circular gale last night from the north-east, which did great damage to the shipping, the loss being estimated at .something over L 5.000. „ T , , February 9. i Hurst has bought Mr Graham’s imported rain and ewe for LI2O. of memorialised for an increase i-i M'** ave Q uee n is all right, and came up tile y esterdii y- The damage caused by f tow ? WUS Tlie walls of Masthtld s foundry crushed in the roof of the tb'Tim 11 ? l)ufc tlle inmates were in another part ed the house, and not injured. The estimated damage is now fixed at LIO.OOO. eamer i 8 completely smashed up and a cutter sunk on top of her.

Latest. A seaman belonging to the Wave Queen, named Richard Knott, was drowned while endeavoring to rescue the crew of the cutter Challenger. George Arnoff, ore of the Challenger’s crew, was also drowned. The Challenger was wrecked on Eangitoto. The men clung on the rocks until the two mentioned wore washed off exhausted. A man named Washington is believed to be lost from the yacht Colum bria, which was wrecked at Breakwater. Four Maoris arc also reported to have been lost. The ‘ Cross’ estimates the damage done by the gale to the shipping and in the city at L 12,390.