BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3559, 20 July 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, July 18. A prospectus is published of the Wellington Co-operative Cattle-dealing and Butchering booiety (Limited). There will be 5,000 share* each,. and no member is to hold more than fifty shares. Fourteen thousand shares in the new Colomal Bank have been applied for here. All the Waikato immigrants are now satis, factoruy employed. The Government has entered into a contract with Messrs N. Edwards and Co. for the conveyance of the San Francisco mail from Manuka* to New Plymouth, Nelson, Westport. Greymouth, Hokitika, and back by the same route. The s.s. Murray will be employed on the service.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, James Wheeler, charged with vagrancy, stated that he had been discharged from the lunatic asylum in Otago, and that the Government of that Province paid his passage to Wellington.

Alex. Brown, charged with incendiarism, has been acquitted, after a week’s trial.

July 20,' Captain Cleland, an old settler, was killed on baturday by his horse shying at a coach and thro wing him. Being checked by the reins, the horse with one hind foot struck Captain Cleland in the jaw and with the other on the chest. Death was instantaneous. The Rotorua Natives have concluded the sale of 22,000 acres of land on the west shore of Dake Rotorua to the Government. The Natives are anxious to deal with several other large blocks of land on the north and west shores of the lake.

mi , r . , , Wanganui, July 18. ihe Magistrate has decided that a billiard room connected with an hotel may be kent open all night. A stud company has been formed, with a capital of L 15.000. Negotiations are pending to purchase Mr Walker’s thoroughbred mare^Jj

w T, , . Auckland, July 18. Wm. Bartley, hamster, and son of Mr Bartley, formerly Speaker of the Legislative Council, has shot himself. The supposed cause was low spirits, from expectation of another attack asthma, from which he suffered greatly. Ihe Novelty barque has arrived from Svdne 7. bringing the Torres Straits mail At the nomination of a member for W»itemata, Messrs Yon der Heyde, J. S. Maotarlane, Rees, and Stoney were' proposed, btoney retired. Rees made a bitter attack upon Macfarlane with reference to a handbill which the latter admitted having circulated regarding Rees. One of the most exciting scenes witnessed at an Auckland meeting an* sued. Rees continued a slashing attack on Macfarlane, and the latter threatened to strike him. A broach of the piece was feared, but was avoided. A show of hands resulted as follows Von der Heyde, 25; Rees, 23 j M»cfarlane, 7. A poll was demanded. Holdslnp, the timber merchant, in conjunotion with. M liroy, of Canterbury, has purchased the barque Hokitika.' t ac^rlan ® b»s entered an action for ii j damages against Harris, jun., for alleged malicious prosecution. It. will be heai-d on Tuesday.

A ' Gkahamstown, July is. A petition has been prepared, signed bv nearly aU the engineers and engine-drivers, praying that the House of Representatives will insei t a clause in the Bill for the prevention of mining and boiler accidents, limiting the hours of labor to eight hours. It states suoh a clause is actually necessury to prevent accidents occurring through fatigue and exhaustion of drivers from long hours, there being twelvehour shifts in many of the batteries.

Mr , t NEW PIAMOUTH. July 17. -Lae steamer Paterson grounded on the North bpit on Monday, and shifted about 200 yards further towards the bar on Tuesday Yester day she was lying across tUe channel of the Waitara River, ihe water is washing over her deck. A great deal of cargo was cot out before she drifted into the stream. The ownom have abandoned her to the underwriters H Mar y became a total wreck on ffie South Spit. She is to be sold by aSJ

ft sured m the Victoria Company for L2 600 ** tion 6 1 naT? e e n BtiU *•**»* •S o* tl0 urifi, A na,u _ t l c ? 1 8Urve y was held to-dav 1)081 to the fka * _ * , gone down in height and ture has been aU landed 0 Jjia, Aae form* taidtos todeckmgo.

delow the main deck. It is passible all cargo not yet out will be saved, as the lay of the tides will take off rapidly. The damage to the bottom is surmised to be serious. She Shews no signs of weakness. She was insured against total loss in the following offices .'—South British, L 2,000; New Zealand, LI,500; Victoria, L1,0Q0; National, Lsoo—total, L 5,000. Her value is L 13,500. July 18. Four thousand five hundred Colonial Bank shares were applied for here to-day. /-v o _ T Nelson, July 18. Over 3,500 New Colonial Bank shares have been applied for here. They are still going off freely. _ Timaru, July 18. One thousand eight hundred shares in the new bank have been taken up here, Westport, July 20. On Saturday evening Mrs Carruthers, wife of the town clerk, committed suicide by plunging into the Buller off Nelson street groin. She bad been drinking for some days. The body has net yet been found.