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Evening Star, Issue 3503, 15 May 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

. Wellington, May 14. A telegram from the Agent-General, dated .ay R announces that during April the fqljpwing emigrant ships sailed for the Gotony I—The1 —The Miltiades, for Auckland, with 780 souls (but 1 r seems to be too large for one vessel); the Winchester, for Napier, with 400 ; Euterpe and Conflict, for Wellington, with 840; Hereterd and Moqarph, for Lyttelton, with 990 ; Laiohne, Sussex, and Peter Denny, for Port A 4, damant ) tor Nelson, with 880. The Agent-Gcperal adds tlwt he expected June rW^4 6,0W dwiag May and The sixth General Synod of the Church of England in New Zealand was opened to-day by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Christchurch. Auckland, May 15. The hearing of the charge against J. B. Macfarlane was continued to-day, Mr Rees, at the

opening, asked Mr Buckland, M.H.R., whether it was true that Mr Macfarlane had been a partner with him in certain land transactions during the past fortnight ? Mr Buckland declined to gratify his curiosity. Mr Bees also objected to both Justices, on the ground that their commissions of the peace had lapsed through non-attendance at two petty sessions during the year. The Justices ruled that they were entitled to sit. Mr Kidd ell, R.M., deposed that Mr Macfarlane sent him a letter while the hearing of the charge against Craig for presenting a revolver at Harris was pending, telling him to be cautious how he adjudicated on Craig. MrHeskcth spoke for two hours hours in defence, imparting it to vindictiveness and malice against Craig, and contending that the statements of witnesses for the prosecution were improbable and unreliable. At two o’clock i e adjourned. Macfarlane and Buckland dined together at Cummings’s ; and on reassembling, the case was dismissed. Two other charges against Macfarlane will be heard on Monday. Christchurch, May 15, At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, it was resolved to request the cooperation of the other Chambers in the Colony in endeavoring to get a new Insolvency Bill passed, similar to the one rejected at the last session of the General Assembly. It was also decided to memorialise the General Government to take measures to amend the Licensing Act, at least so as to enable the Commissioners to grant wholesale licenses any time during the year. ° At a meeting of the Spinning and Weaving Company yesterday, it was announced that an expensive plant for the manufacture of woollen goods had been ordered from England, and will leave London tills month.