BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3541, 29 June 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

-v- i . nnn , Napier, June 27. t^cl y .iM ar “ have be “ “

0 , , , , Wanganui, June 27. ocarlet fever has broken out here. At prefer l-m onfi u e - d to .°? e fam %-the father and xsur children being infected.

Tk- , Christchurch, June 27. reserve^of o^ I Gnft OUncil la f fc night mxde a Tlmrl l. i J!? 0 ’- 0 re » . of Pastoral land. like other lfc ba °P en f° r sale 25 ner J i when “y portion be sold, ‘Rn«fi tj P r °°**dß be paid over to

In the Provincial Council tomight^Mr U . W f U +L loV ®i that be oh all the branches of the railways on Sunday. . ihc Museum continues to be visited by an immense number of persons on Sundays. * A meeting of the members of the Kaiapoi Public Library is called to consider the quesSundayg PomnS tbe libriir y 311(1 reading-room on

~ , , Wellington, June 27. At the theatre last night. Miss Alice May was presented with a handsome souvenir in the shape of a gold and diamond brooch and ear-rings. It u privately stated to bo worth over

b^ i fA Ch +' 1 v. en w Tl i? d j a lon S passage, having had to put back to Sydnay after being two days out. She also had rough weather on reaching this coast, and took shelter in Port Hardy from Wednesday till Saturday morning. The deepest sounding taken across was 2,600 fathoms. Found a bottom of sand and mud till almost within sight of New Zealand, when the bottom became rocky and shallow, suddenly. When about ten miles from port, one of the °f cw ’, named Edward Wilton, while standing in the chains, was washed away by a sea. He was not missed for a few minutes, when the vessel tounded to. but there was no sign of him. The date of her departure is not decided vet.' After leaving Wellington the Challenger is to go to Auckland, unless the Otago people induce the scientific staff to pay them a visit, as they will make every endeavor to do. After a week’s ay w ? -A U , Okl j nd ’ sbe * oes t0 Tongaloboo and the Fiji Islands. After cruising some time in Polynesia , generally the Challenger goes to Hong Kong, which she will make her main station for coaling and refitting. Her rough passage prevented soundings being taken as satisfactorily as could be wished.

m. tr , , , Auckland, June 27. *H . ulu and Fiji news,'per City of Adelaide, is unimportant. H.M.S. Rosario has armed at Levuka. A goed cotton crop is expected.