BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3478, 16 April 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

m, .. , ... .. Whllinqton, April 15. Ihe vital statistics for the month of March give the births and deaths in seven towns of the Coiony as follow ;-Auckland ; Births. 45 • deaths, 18. Thames : Births, 19; deaths, 14 • Wellington: Births, 40: deaths, 23. Nelson; Births, 13; deaths, 8. Cluistchurch : Birthi?j 40; deaths, 23. -Dunedin: Births, 61'; 25 Hokitika; Births, 20; deaths, 4-being less than m February, which showed births 292, and deaths, 140.

It has been arranged to grant free passes on railway to members of the General Government, Superintendents, and Provincial Executives; also, members of Assembly and Provincial Councils during the session. The University Council yesterday agreed to nffilfnf" nCT f m °ti° n for the affiliation of Christchurch College was granted. The application on behalf of Canterbury College was postponed. J The Presbyterians of the Willis street Church L3 V OOO SOIV6d t0 bUdd * neW church > at a coat of

99 n^ d T B have , bee s. c aUed for the supply of 22,000 sleepers for the Wanganui—Manawatu railway.

r 4.1, o Christchurch, April 15. In the Supreme Court to-day, John Wilmhurst, late surgeon of the Isles of the South, for larceny as bailee of medical comforts during the passage out, was brought up for sentence! Mr Harper, solicitor for the prisoner, argued that under the 48th section of the Passengers Act the medical comforts were placed under the charge of the medical officer, to be used at his discretion : therefore, although there might bo waste in the case, there could be no larceny, ihe Judge reserved this point for the Court of Appeal, and deferred sentence until next criminal session. The prisoner in the mean- • W»Brtyon his own recognizance m LSOO, and two sureties in L 250 eaoh.

m, n , Alexandra, April 15. me Governor s meeting at Ngaruawahia is only to be with the Europeans and Friendlies, ihe Albion, an Auckland whaling barque, as arrived, after a 17 months’ cruise, with only 14 tuns of sperm.

*v x New , Plymouth, April 15. , tf 6 steamers not bringing cargo here, the Herald say* the Southern merchants will not allow themselves to be shut out of the trade TnrnSu aS x* commencement Messrs Turnbull, or Wellington, are going to put on the Stormbird for New Plymouth. So we shall not be isolated. , mr t> , „ Grahamstown, April 15. ine Borough Council met to-day. Mr William Davies was elected Mayor.