BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3534, 20 June 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

w ..v , , „ "WellilNchon, June 19. with regard to the official inquiry into the facts connected with the loss of a seaman on board the Cheviot, the Attorney-General gives it as his opinion that (the vessel being French) the Customs authorities have no jurisdiction in the case. ' Tribune ’ says it learas, on good autherity, that there will be no Volunteer rifle com* petion next year; but,the Government will give ' more encouragement to rifle competition in the various Provinces instead. Three thousand shares in the new Colonial Bank hare been allotted in Wellington. A meeting was held to-day, and a provisional committee appointed for local management. The ‘New Zealand Times ’ is the Hon. Dr. Buchanna has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council. Mr Cutten and Capt. Boyd, of the Colonial Bank, proceed North to-day. There are fifteen entries for the Wellington Derby, to be run in December. Mr Brown’s Solitaire, Mr Quinlivain’s Maid of the Mountain Mr Walker’s Glenavery and ch filly bv Traducer out of Policy, Mr Barker’s Remnant, Mr Delatuam’s Elfin King, Mr Steeven’s Ranakira, Mr Walter’s ch filly by Towten, out of Symphony, Mr Hercules, Mr Emerson s Guy Fawke, and Mr Watt’s Ranri Tioko, Ngaro, Toi, and Wanui. m. n , T Makktd, June 19. . The Government Land Purchase Oommis. wr? I* of Plenty (Messrs Davis and Mitchell) have this day completed negotiations for the purchase of the Puki Block, near Maketu, containing an area of 30,000 acres of the choicest arable land on this coast. mi Bluff, June 19. ihe s.B. Otago, Captain M‘Lean, left Melbourne at 5.30 p.m. on the 13th. She experienced heavy easterly weather on the passage. She brings 93 passengers, 361 tons of Dunrdfn horses . for P or <»- She sails for Dunrdm at 3p m. to-morrow. The following w the passenger list :-Saloon: Messrs Gee, Hussey, Beal, Dow Whittingham, Paterson, Cooper, Palmer, Blair, Day, Dick, M MuUen, Cope, Mrs Goe and two children, Rev. Mr Waterhouse, Mrs Dow, Rev. G. P. Moore, Mrs Jordan and two infants, Mrs Monkhouse and one infant, and 40 in the steerage. A sharp shock of earthquake, lasting several - seconds, was felt at 5.45 this morning. The direction appeared to be east and west.