BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3561, 22 July 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Bluff, July 22. The s.a. Otago, Captain John M‘Lean, arrived at the Bluff at 11 p.m. latt night, from Melbourne, with the Australian mails. She left Melbourne on the 15th, and experienced very heavy weather. Hove-to for ten hours near tke Solanders, and was then obliged to «*ek •belter in Dusky Sound, remaining there fourteen hours, the weather being terrific. She sails for Dunedin at 5 p.m. Passenger listMr Cowell, Misa Smith, Mr Deeley, Mr Caffin, Mr Ingham, Mr and Mrs J. J. Beeves, and two infants, Mr T. H. Townsend, Mr Grogan, Mr Swanston, Mr and Mrs Fitzsimmons, Mr S. M. M‘Keown, Mr and Mrs S. J. Beeves, Mrs Jacobs and two children, Airs G. W. Smith, Miss M. Parish, Mr and Mrs Isaac, Mr Ehrraan, Dr Browne, fl ud infant, Mr Sam Martin, Miss Monteith, Miss Kelly, Mrs Techew, and two children, Mrs Souttar. Mrs Arthur and child, and thirty-four steerage passengers. She brings five horses and one hundred and eighty-one tons cargo.

Nelson, July 22, Charlotte Koseley, landlady of the Bay View Hotel, Suburban North, was found dead under suspicious circumstances. A coroner’s inquest has been held, and the jury, after an hour’s deliberation, returned a verdict of wilful minder against Norman Boseloy, deceased’s husband, and against William Milyradd, his barman, as an accessory after the deed. The body was terribly bruised about the head and face, and the medical evidence was that death had been produced by rupture of the blood vessel in the head, causing pressure on the biam, and that the rupture had been caused by a blow behind the ear.

Wellington, July 21. Ihere were applications to-day for 2,000 shares in the Colonial Bank. The total number applied for, in the city alone, is 16,000, Possibly, with those from Wanganui and other districts, there will be considerably over 20 000 shares allotted to the Province. *

m ~r . July 22. The Californian Minstrels are detained, and will not reach Dunedin until Saturday.

. Oamaku, July 21. JUr Shrimski was elected Mayor by 250 votes against 100 for Sumpter.

' Lawrence, July 21. ihere was great excitement at the result of the election of Mayor. The numbers were— Matthew Hay, 80 ; Andrew Ferguson, 76.

... , Balclutha, July 21. At the election of Mayor, Mr Robert Grigor polled 62, and Mr John Macdonald GO votes.

„ r Queenstown, July 21. At the Mayoral election, Mr Betts polled 148 votes; Mr Warren, 108. The election was conducted quietly.

mi , , Taupo, July 20. Ihere has been a veiy heavy fall of snow here to-day.

Auckland, July 22. ilia Supreme Court was occupied all yesterday with the case of J. S. M'Farlane v. Harris, junr. The evidence generally related to the manner in which the informations were mid. Mr John M‘Leod, a Justice of the I eace, and formerly a member of the General Assembly, before whom the informations were sworn, deposed in reply to questions by the h ® Wol dd not put much faith in Ml< arlane’s statement on oath. His knowledge of M'Farlane’s commercial and political influences led him to believe that M'Farlane was a dangerous man. The case has not concluded.