BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3476, 14 April 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

' , , , Wellington, April 13. ■ A telegram has been received from the Agent-General, dated April 2, announcing as despatched for the Colony during March the following vessels, with immigrants .-—The •Buckingham, Hindostan, Caroline, and Carlsruhe?,for Otago, with 1,500 souls; the NorthCity of Dunedin, and Stonehouse. for Lyttelton, with 1,320 souls; the Peeress (name of place not decipherable, but supposed to be Timaru), with 2fo souls; the Wishart and yueen of Nations, for 'Auckland, with 630 souls: the Waikato, for Wellington, with 370 souls; and the Halcione, for Napier, with 310 8 ? j ’ 0^,7. a plant shipped in these vessels includes 2,820 tons of rails and fastenings, seventeen carnages, four brakes, four horse-boxes, two trucks, 1 steam crane, twenty-five sets of waggon irons.two engines, and 150 tarpaulins, Ihe Hutt Railway will be opened to-morrow, | without any demonstration. The Government has been reluctantly compelled to adopt this course, owing to the quantity of rolling stock on the line being so limited as to make it impossible to convey any large number of persons. r The whole of the Woodlark’s immigrants sent to Wanganui have obtained employment immediately, tat satisfactory rates. the Good Templar agitation and canvassing going on to close the publionouses lately, up petitions were lodged yesterday, which was the last day for their being handed into Court. 6 __The conference between the Council of the ■Wew Zealand Umversity and deputations from the Otago Umversity and Canterbury College, ocoumed all yesterday’s sitting. It was mutually agreed that a new University Act should be "drafted by the Council, embodying the terms and conditions in which the affiliation of bout hem Colleges should be carried out, and the drafted Bill be considered next sitting. At^ eleven o’clock this morning a number of petitions, numerously signed, for the closing of several public-houses were presented at the Magistrates Court but refused because they were too late. _ ' „ Hokitika, April 5. The Claud Hamilton arrived yesterday, full of passengers for the Palmer River Diggings. Seventy Were booked at Greymouth, and the same number were offered here, but only twelve sould be taken. rm. j , CHBISTOHUUeH, AprUl3. •ir ii. 6 <|mmage done to the Christchurch and West Coast road by the' late floods is very great; several miles are destroyed, and it will require several thousand pounds to effect repairs. At the Supreme Court to-day, Andrew Jansen, brought up for perjury, was discharged on a legal pomt advised by Mr Joynt, his solicitor, that the evidence in which the prisoner swore folsely was not material to the issue of the case. Jolm Hennessy was sentenced to two years for penury. • At the nomination to-day for the election of a member for Akaroa in the General Assembly, the show of hands was Montgomery. 44 • JPiiliefc, 7. Mr Pilliet demanded a poll, ’

Auckland, April 13. The returns'' Franklyn election, though incomplete, leave little doubt-as to the return of Mr Joseph May. The ‘Cross’ deprecates the Governor’s visit to Waikato, unless Mr M'Lean is present. It says that the interview of Mr Mackay with Eewi shows his influence is small.as compared with the Native Minister’s. , It is stated that the General Government intend to lend L 50,000, at six per cent., to the Thames Companies to test the deep levels of that goldfield. L 6,000 is now available. The Mongol has sailed. Sir William and Lady Martin are passengers by her. An address was presented to them prior to leaving. T, . . , Alexandra, April 13, • rneu from Kopua yesterday. The Native Contingent go down to Ngaruawahia to meet the Governor and Mr Maekay, who leave here to-day. Jackson’s cavalry are ordered to Ngaruawahta. , New Plymouth, April 13. , ® case Atkinson v. Whitcombe, for libel, was settled by defendant paying L2O, a portion of the costs, and signing an apology. mu , , Nelson, April 13, Ihe population of the Province is 22,521 if- - Last oensus it was 22,501. The principal falling off is in Grey Valley : the City has increased 311 souls.