BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3566, 28 July 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

mi .I. , Auckland, July 29. ibe butchers have raised the price of meat a penny per lb,, owing to the scarcity of meat, and threaten to increase it to eightpence, unless cattle steamers commence running in the place of those withdrawn. Captain Andrews, of the s.a. Ladybird reports seeing a comet to the eastward with a’tail five or six degrees in length. ~*i ~ , Wellington, July 29. Mr Alex. Macdonald, Assistant Under-Secre-tary, died at 11 o clock last night, after a long illness. s m, „ .. Alexandra, July 24. o 6 -Kopua Natives have already upwards of 100 acres of wheat sown, and are still busv planting, J ARRIVAL OF THE ALBION WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL. Blupp, July 28. The s.s. Albion, with the English mail, arrived at 10.30 this morning. She left Melbourne on the 23rd inst., at 8 p.m., and has made a quick passage of four days twelve hours. She brings thirty-one saloon and twenty-six steerage passengers, and 400 tons of cargo for all ports, fche sails for Dunedin at 4pm to day. * ' Passenger List: Messrs Bright, Wheeler, Ferguson, E. J* Spence, Easton, Morrison, Baxter, J. S. Webb, Anderson, Kerr, Mrs Campbell and four children, Mrs Spence and two chddren, fifteen steerage passengers, and 250 tons of cargo.