BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3487, 27 April 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Bluff, April 27. ; The Oraeo, Captain Oalder, left Melboum at 3 p.m. on the 21st; arrived at the Bluff at 8 a*in. on the 27th, She brings 452 tons cargo and thirty-five horses, besides twenty-six saloon and twenty-seven steerage passengers for all ports.

Passenger List.—Saloon: Messrs Roxby, Eitchardt, Dalgety, Paterson, Eskdale, Anderson, Fane, Blyth, Donaldson, Miss Gertrude Price, j Mrs Rowe and family; 15 in the steerage, and 233 tons of cargo, and 35 horses.

A Wellington, April 27. Advices have been received from Sydney wiat the March mails from London reached Boston at least two days late. The New South Wales Government has telegraphed and written to the Imperial authorities urging that fast steamers should be selected for sending the Fnsco mails across the Atlantic.

New Plymouth, April 25. • The census of the population was published in the Herald ’ this morning, and shows an increase in three years of 1,000, . It is reported that Mr Whitcomhe, Provincial Secretary, has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands.

No bottle licenses were granted in this district.

™ „ . Arrow, April 27. A I H e i lo # l ® Bß Committee formed at Pleasant Creek Terrace has petitioned the Government to construct a horse-bridge over the Shotover ap Maori Point. | The weather is fine’* an’4 the river falling.

Four stacks were burned on Friday at Arrowtown. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary.

t Auckland, April 25. Father Norris, a Roman Catholic priest, of the Thames, and formerly of Otago, died in the Auckland Asylum to-day.