BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3474, 11 April 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, April 10. The number of nominations for immigrants sent home by the Mongol is 118. n . April 11. governor Uucane and suite were passengers by the Mongol for Auckland. The Postmaster-General has authorised the presentation of a testimonial, valued at LSO, to baptam Brojvn,. for bringing on the mail from Kandavu on finding the Mongol gone. The Hutt Railway will be opened on the 14th mst. There will be three trains a day, and the charge will be moderate. Mr Mackay, Colonel Lyon, and a party of the Armed Constabulary, mounted, have gone to Kopua to meet Rewi. . . Lawrence, April 10. inquest was held to-day on the body ol the boy Anderson, aged four years, who died in the Lawrence Hospital On Wednesday, from injuries received by the coach accident at Beaumont, on Saturday. Mr M‘Coy, instructed b\ Mr Williams, appeared for Chaplain and Co. Inspector Thompson watched the case for the pehoe.-William Duff, driver, deposed that th. brake was in good order when he left Clyde Coming down Beaumont-hill ho applied tht brake, which broke at once. -He fell forwarc: on to the foot-board, and when he tecovem bis seat the team of four horses was in full fU°p. The accident occurred at a sharp Two women and two children were on the box-seat. The road was a difficult one in this place. Eleven witnesses , t were examined. an a e ( l ues . t w &3 adjourned till Friday. A fatal accident occurred at Waitahuna on iuesday morning, Jacob Lawrenson, a miner, was killed by a fall of earth, which broke his neck and legs. He had been working only two days in the claim of Thomson and party, , , „ „ . Nasebt, April 10. Yesterday the Naseby Town Hall foundation stone was laid by Mr Bastings. The building is to be of concrete, on a stone foundation, ano d ex P ec^e< l to be open in four months. Mr Bastings spoke at length, and said the policy of the Government was to withhold the hundred proposed to be declared, as certain to be monopohsed by capitalists. The Council, it is hoped, will agree to ask the Assembly to raise the price in Otago of agricultural land to L2 per acre. Sir 1. D. Bell’s plan to sell the pastoral land at 10s was ridiculous. No land was worth so little. The contractors for the Mount Ida public works are to expect no leniency if they n °t complete their contracts in reasonable fc A lD ? e ’ , Im P ortant public interests are at stake. A lunch at the Royal Hotel, and the usual toasts, concluded the proceedings.