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Evening Star, Issue 3439, 28 February 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

mu ™ „ Hokitika, February 28. ihe s.s. Claud Hamilton, Captain Bowden, commander, arrived at 4 p.m. yesterday from Melbourne. She left Port Philip Heads at 6.30 p.m. on the 21st, and brings twenty-four saloon and 50 steerage passengers, besides 300 tons of cargo for all ports, and ope race-horse for Wellington. She was tendered here at 9 p.m., and sailed North at 9.30. Roxburgh, February 27. At a public meeting, held last night, the conduct of the Goveihment in arranging;to sell to the runholder a block of good agricultural land, on {Miller’s : Plat, repeatedly promised to be opened for, settlement, was strongly denounced, Subsequently a committee was appointed to confer with Mr Holloway, to whom an invitation has been sent to visit the district to see for himself the inducements held out for settlement. A concise statement, showing the manner in which the land in the district is being disposed of to runholding capitalists, is prepared for Mr Holloway’s information; also au account of the vexatious obstructions placed m. the way of old residents obtaining even a few acres. _ Wellington, February 27. Steps are bemg taken to organise a banquet to his Excellency Governor Weld for his eminent public services to this Colony. Last night’s‘Gazette’ contains notices of the Hon. John Bathgate’s resignation, and his appointment as District Court Judge and Resident Magistrate for Dunedin. Mr Bryan Cecil Haggitt is gazetted Crown Prosecutor for the district of Dunedin. . February 28. The weights and acceptances for the Wellington Cup are as follow Mr Watts’s Hatred, 6 yra, 9st; Mr Campbell’s Constancy, 3 yrs, Bst; Mr Watts’s Batter, 3 yrs, Gstfib; Mt 1 Campbells Azucena, 3 yrs, 6st 71b; Mr Brown’s Lochinvar, 5 yrs, 6st 101b. Calumny. (Songstress, and Dead Shot pay the forfeit, mutt Christchurch, February 27. 1 • e Hon. Wi Katene, M.H.R., complains, m a letter to the‘Press,’ that he andAleno Matiaha could not obtain sleeping acoommodatmnatany of the hotels. He said the reason was that people objected to take in Maoris. A leader in the Press ’ stated that the inference he drew was entirely wrong, and that the real pause was unusual influx of visitors, many white peop e having had to apply to the pqlice to obtain lodgings, Katone and Matiaha are now s^PP ln g at the Clarendon Hotel, i le B- on - J• T. Peacock has written to the limes exposing the conduct of the Rev. Mr Lingard, Episcopalian minister of Christchurch, who threatened to discharge the organist if he did not wiihdraw from an engagement to assist Church 01 * 11 ” 15 ° f aU orgaQ at the Wesleyan mu Auckland, February 27. The Pacific Hotel at Coromandel has been burned down. Miss Cuming, the barmaid, was tiie only occupant, and narrowly escaped in her nightdress by jumping from the balcony. She aroused the neighbors, and then fell down exhausted m the street. The buildings and stock lo‘um alheVhkri “- c °“- thJ al i\’- correspondeut tele graph ; 8 that I l atlv l eß reuort a devastating fire nhhi " Ba - mutu ’ J destr °y m « nearly the whole gram P r °duce, likewise the settlements. a l fe l ?f re 7 as . c e u - sed b y Lewi's wife throS r li o uted match into the fern 1 ' * 3k . . Grahamstown. February ‘27. iiS3f C ° alhave been discovered who were prospe3t ’ widi Sinking Committee was held A deputation was ap-

pointed to confer -with the Pumping Association, and to apply to the Superintendent to obtain a loan of L 50.000 to proceed at once with the sinking of a pumping shaft. It was understood that the Premier would grant this at once, on the security of the mine and plant. • ~, , Reefton, February 28. Splendid stone was struck yesterday afternoon in the Fiery Cross claim, driving towards Alexandra. It exceeds anything yet obtained m the mine.