BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3432, 20 February 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

mi •... . Hokitika, February 20. Afft 10 !} arnved Rt 2-30 this morning. She left Melbourne at 5.39 p.m. on the 14th S ll nnrts gS T TS a and 120 PMsengerefor aU ports. She was tendered here at 11.30, and sails North at noon. Passengers for Dunedin— Messrs Farrou and John Cameron. m, « „ Wellington, February 19. Ine Gazette contains a notification that a bonus of sixpence per gallon will be paid on kerosene produced within the Colony to an extent not exceeding 50,000 gallons, and on quantities not less than 10,000. gallons at a time. The kerosene must be approved by the Government, and sold at a fair market price. Mr Benjamin Smith has been appointed Auditor of Public Accounts for the Province, in the place of Mr William Dorsett, removed. H.M.S. Blanche has left for Auckland Islands, Antipodes Islands, and Campbell Island?, Afterwards she proceeds to Auckland, and then returns to Fiji. February 20. A proposal is mooted to form a company and purchase land upon which to erect working men’s cottages. . , Napier, February 19. A large grass fire has occurred at Waipawa. Two boys have been severely burnt. One lived only three hours afterwards. Large numbers of carpenters have recommenced work at 12s per day. Several are still out on strike. Blbnheih, February 19. Ihe polling here for the Superiutendenoy election is—Seymour, 164; Bailie, 71. The other returns are not in. Auckland, February 20. An influential deputation of Thames and Auckland men waited on the Premier yesterday to urge the construction of the Thames and Waikato railway. The adduced statistics, showing that the population expected to use the line, amounted to 23,077 persons; the p?^nlo 0U8 * and for cultivation to S’’ ’m? acres ’ an d the consumption at the Thames of coal, stores, &c., which the Waikato is capable of supplying, 27,602 tons. Mr Vogel promised to bring the matter before the Cabinet, but expressed his personal opinion to be strongly unfavorable to the proposal He thought quite enough work was proceeding for the labor available. He considered the Waikato line to Auckland would afford the Thames ample communication with that district. A committee is forming to entertain Mr Vogel at a banquet.