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Evening Star, Issue 3536, 23 June 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

t _ Wellington, June 22, The ‘Tribune’ circulates a rumor.that the Government has sold the Luna to a Sydney firm for L 12,000, and that a new vessel to replace her is now on her way to England. .... Auckland, June 22. All doubt regarding the fate of the cutter Agnes, with three men aboard, is settled by the discovery of portions of the wreck. The contract for the completion of the Kaipara Railway to Riverhead waa signed to-dav for L 13,000. It is to be completed in six months. Mr Falloon is the contractor. Ihe Star’ has published three columns of statements re the escape of Communists from New Caledonia, tending to show that they were expected aboard the P.C.E., and that the captain and mates went ashore the night before sailing. The Communists going aboard in their absence indicates complicity with the French authorities. , . Alexandra, June 22. The Kingites have written to the Government, refusing to allow vessels to enter the Mokau as agreed by Wetere. Lyttelton, June 22. Among the Northampton immigrants, two cases of scarlet fever broke out on Saturday, a nurse and a boy. Comments appear in thelocal papers as to the unsuitableness of the locality, it being too much confined. . . ~ .Invercargill, June 22. Xiie girl Mary Hall, who was murderously assaulted on the 15th instant, having recovered full possession of her faculties, another deposition was taken to-day. She identified Brennan as the man who struck her. She saw him take the adze from behind a door in the kitchen, ihe day before the assault, Brenn«n said there would be death in McCarthy’s house before he left it. On one occasion he had attempted to take liberties with her, „ ~ , , Greyjiouth, June 22. . Monday the steamer Waipara, bound tor Hokitika, while waiting to cross the bar early on the tide, took the ground on the bouth Spit, where she remained till the evenjer high water > w hen she floated off, but united amongst the breakers to the southward, and eventually drifted ashore on the south beach, apout half-a-mile from the river mouth. Ihe position of the vessel is a dangerous one, as there is a heavy sea rolling along the shore.