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Evening Star, Issue 3508, 21 May 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

„ Bluff, May 21. Ine s,s. Otago, Captain Maclean, left Melbourne on the 14th, arrived here at 10 p.m. on the 20th, and cance alongside the wharf at 7.30 this morning. She brings 430 tons of cargo, 26 horses, and 94 passengers for all ports. She sails at 3 p.rn, for Dunedin. Passengers for Dunedin; Saloon— Messrs Morrison, Down, Deggatt, MTCenzie, Brown, Low, Jones, Wilton, Quick, and Barlow; Mesdames Solomon, Trewern, Fogarty, and Orr ; 40 in the steerage; 300 tons of cargo and 26 horses. Ti . , Wellington, May 20. It is stated that H.M.S. Blanche will be stationed at Wellington during the coining Parliamentary session. H.M.S. Pearl is expected here from Fiji about August. . Private advices from New Caledonia, regarding the escaped Communists, state that Rochefort was on the Peninsula of Ducos; Jourde was employed in a butchery as cashier, and rendered his accounts correct to a centime before he left; and Groussett was employed at St. John s circular saw establishment as architect and was preparing a plan of a new theatre in Sydney, for the Exhibition. He left a letter for his employer thanking him for his kindness, and stating that he had taken the plan of the theatre, and would see it was in the Exhibition. At Enow a convict was guillotined for striking an officer, and another was condemned for the same offence. At Oubatche a man named Bateman, late of New shot the Commandant for trying to elope with a girl, at one tape a barmaid at the Greyhound Hotel, Auckland, who lived with Bateman- as his wife. It is expected that Bateman will get off with three months’imprisonment. The Commandant Uved twenty-two hours after being shot. Letters have been found from him, sending poison to the girl to give to Bateman. mi .. t t , Christchurch, May 20. ana attempt to form a new insurance comis supposed to bo a failure. _ . . Auckland, May 21. Th* Provincial Council has passed the education rate, as under:—Household tax, over LlO and under L2O rental, 20s; over L2O and under L 50,40*; over L6O and under L100,60s ; over Ll 00, 80s. All bachelors, 20s.