BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3567, 29 July 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, July 28. An official inquiry into the circumstances i e . c °lhsion between the Manawatu and the brigantine Kate Brain was held to-day. ihe evidence was mainly to the effect that each vessel had done its utmost to avoid a collision.

At the inquiry at the Customs into the circumstances of the accident to the barque browning Beauty in a gale on the 21st, the evidence showed that she signalled from four o clock in the morning till noon before assistance was sent.

A. meeting of persons interested in the licensing laws was held to-day, when a committee was appointed to draw up a petition against the proposed amendment by Mr Fox in support of the Permissive Bill.

mi Auckland, July 28. The counsel on behalf of Harris and Macfarlane to-day announced in Court that an arrangement had been made which was likely to

determine all disputes and prevent future litigation between the parties. Three actions by Harris against Macfarlane, now pending, are withdrawn.

The Waitemata election returns are in from the country, and, with the exception of three brought by carrier pigeons, show —Von dcr lleyde, 153 ; Macfarlane, 167.

mi July 29. Ihe complete returns for the "Waitemata election give Mr Von der Heyde a majority of fifty.

Grahaustown, July 28. A doctor named Brown was charged in the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day with being of unsound mind. The accused had left a letter at a tradesman’s to the effect that the writer was tired of his life. He had also applied for a license to purchase a pistol, with the avowed purpose of shooting himself. He. was remanded for medical examination. The accused was formerly a surgeon in the Anned Constabulary. -

Lyttelton, July 29. The immigrants who arrived by the Northampton, on June Gth, were released yesterday from the quarantine station, except a few invalids and their attendants.

Christchurch, July 29. A bunclay Observance League, with a very influential committee, has been formed, with the object of agitating for preserving the sanctity of the Sabbath, including the closing of public institutions on that day.