BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3466, 1 April 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, March 31. A Gazette extraordinary has been published this afternoon, which further prorogues the meeting of Parliament till the 11th of May. The * Tribune will appear to-morrow as an evening paper instead of a morning one, as heretofore. The Woodlark’s immigrants were landed today, and a couple of young , children died while in Quarantine. The Hutt railway will he ready to be handed over to the General Government to-morrow. April 1. The 'lndependent ’ says the cause of delay in the publication of a Hand Book of the Colony is owing to two of the principal Provinces not having had their portions ready. It believes the intention now is to send the Hand Book Home for publication, and to distribute it there hi large numbers. The. portions of the book BOW wanted are promised in another week. ; Auckland, March 31. The Inquest, in the case of concealment of birth, against Minnie Garlick, an immigrant who arrived by the barque Woodlark, nine months ago, has concluded. The evidence showed that the body of the child had been found in an old dry well-on the premises of .Garlick’s employer, The chib! waß'hom at 6 o’clock in the morning, and the girl did all the work of the house that day. Marks of strangulation were found on the child’s throat. Dr Nicholson deposed that the infant was bom alive and healthy. The Jury returned a verdict “ that the child, died of strangulation, but by whom strangulation was , caused there was no evidence to show.” Minnie Garliok has been committed for trial for infanticide. . , . . At the nomination for a member for the xranklyn district, Messrs Goodfellow, Woo'd. w * r d. May, Dargaville, and Troope, were proposed. The show of hands was in favor of Mr Goodfellow. A poll was demanded, and takes place on the 9th April. In the following districts the census returns have been made upWaikato, 4,585, increase 1*311; Newton, 4,847, increase 890; City East, 4,082, increase 3; Waitemata, 2.281, decrease 169; Onehunga, 2,084, increase 195. Total increase five districts yet returned, 3,230. ’Die City of Melbourne has arrivechvith l the xnaco wail. She left Frisco on March 7, arrived at Honolulu in eight days; left twentyfour hours afterwards, and reached Kandavu m ten days twelve hours; had to wait till daylight before entemg, and found that the Mongol bad gone nineteen hours before; left at once for Auckland, and arrived after a splendid passage of three days twenty-two hours. Passengers.—For Dunedin: Messrs Woodville and M'Laren. For Canterbury; Mr L. Nathan. The tranjmisspn of the Australian mails across America Was delayed by a snow blockade. She has a number of passengers for Sydney and Auckland, but no cargo. Geetmodth, April 1. The Manager of the Greymouth Coal OomE reports that coal has been proved in the igS' at 220 feet. The seam is seventeen feet thick, and of first-class quality. He also reports that a quarter of a mile from borings coal has been proved at sixty-five feet from the surface at that spot. A shaft is to bo started at once. The requisite machinery has bean purchased, and the company will bo ready to supply coal in three months.

8 . goes a-sorf,owin’.” More often it 19 the other way up.” Who goss friending too often goes a-sorrowin’, while. one who goes a-borrowin’ not unfrsquently goes on his way rejoicing at his dexterity. 1 8 pa P er has th ° following among its scientific discoveries” :—A newfashioned bustle was found in the cricket field yesterday, which consisted of several newspapers, three pairs of old hose, two “ quilted ” petticoats (nearly worn out), two old slouch hats, a pair of top boots, a bunch ef hay, apiece of staw «arp«b w»d a ccrd about t&c/feet l«f*