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Evening Star, Issue 3573, 5 August 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, August 4. A letter from their London Agent to Messrs Turnbull and Co. states that it has been computed that there are one million more sheep in Great Britain than there were two vears ago.

A stiff north-easter setting in caused tfie tide last night to raise higher than has been known for years, doing much damage to property. About a chain of reclaimed ground near where the railway terminus will be is washed away. The approaches to town, the bridge, and Devon street, are undermined ; and near CallachanV shop the embankment has all been carried away. A higher tide is expected to-morrow afternoon. The gale continues.

The Stermbird is reported taking shelter on the other side of Cape Egmont, as she cannot face the north-easter.

The following is the result of the tenders for the Pareora contract of the Tiinaru and Waitaki Railway Accepted, Allan and Stumbles, Tiinaru, L 23,911 5s 3d; declined, James Gibson and Son, Timarn, and Walter Fuller, Ashburton—both informal.

. August 5. [Desirous of furnishing the earliest information on the fate of the Forests Bill, our correspondent at Wellington presented telegrams on the subject at 12.30 to-day. Considering the heavy charge we pay for telegraphic news, if transmitted during the day, and the interest taken in Parliamentary proceedings, this news ought to have reached us in ample time for publication this evening. We have clay by day during this session paid heavily for telegrams that it was impossible to publish, the arrangements having been made wholly in favor of the morning journals. The expense and delay have now become intolerable. No matter what effort is made to give early information, we are met with official delay in Welligton, for it must be distinctly borne in mind that we have no complaint to make of the Dunedin branch, whose courtesy and attention we have every reason to be satisfied with. The message was not printed when we were compelled to go to press, and therefore we cannot even give the result of the debate.]

Christchurch, August 5. Captain Hart, of the s.s. Beautiful Star, has had both his legs broken. About 1 p.m. the steamer was employed towing the ship Ballochmyle into the stream, when the lashing of the tow rope broke and, surging, struck him. A consultation was held, and it was decided that the right leg must be amputated below the knee.

Auckland, August 4. Mr Casey agreed to refer his salvage claim against the Miltiades to arbitration. He put in a formal claim for L 10.400, and now says it was a jokes

Captain Daily, in a strong speech at the City Council on the irregularities of the revenues of the various Provinces, and the inability of Auckland to provide proper means of Government, although contributing a quarter of a million to the Customs reuenue, moved “That the Police protection of the city is insufficient to prevent crime, and that a telegram be sent' to the Superintendent requesting him to bring the matter under the notice of the General Government.”—Carried unanimously.

, Alexandra, Augusts Ihe report with reference to the vessel at Alokau is corroborated by some Makipoti Natives who have come back from that place. They say that the report is true, but that the vessel is a schooner, with a cargo of warlike stores.

, Napier, August 4. Air Ashley, clerk to Messrs Lee and Cornford, was violently assaulted this morning by three new arrivals. The matter will be investigated in the Resident Alagistrate’s Court,

New Plymouth, August 5. About noon on Monday the wind shifted to the south, which prevented the tide from coming up so high as on the night previous, A strong southerly gale was blowing all the night, but abated considerably yesterday morning; A heavy fresh came down the river, together with the north-easterly gale on Sunday, and has Earted the steamer Paterson in two, making er a complete wreck. All hopes of saving the vessel have now been abandoned.