BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3531, 17 June 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

rn, , Wellington, June 36. Ihe Government have agreed to a suggestion ? unedin Chamber of Commerce that the Chambers of Commerce or other pub1C uj have shipping intelligence telegraphed at the usual Press rates, but Chambers k om “ erc e or other public bodies which may tarn the privilege will have to appoint their own agent in each port. The Municipal Council • last night carried °?< t i! le ces ’ 3 motion that in future the Mayor o the City shall be elected by the ratepayers direct, and not by the Council; that the necessary alteration in the law be made for carrying this into effect. 6 rru T , Auckland, June 16,' ihe London correspondent of the ‘ Star ’ states that the immigrants per Lochawe, which sailed from Loudon on April 6 for Auckland, are the finest class that have left England lately, A little difference regarding the price of passage has arisen between the New Zealand shipping Co. and the Agent-General. In the Supreme Court to-day, in Banco CaS f£ f Fraser (R-M. at the Thames) v. Reed and Brett (proprietors of the ‘ Evening Star ’), which was an application for criminal libel, counsel, on behalf of the defendants, stated that he should offer no objection to making the rule absolute. The rule was accordingly granted. * J