BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3607, 14 September 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Auckland. September 12, Mr Beveridge, Provincial Solicitor, died today after a protracted illness. Yatterina has been scratched for the Canterbury Handicap, owing to excessive weight. Te Whaka, the chief who murden d ' uku at Hokianga in 1868, and who was sentenced to death, which sentence was afterwards commub d to imprisonment for life, but who escaped from gaol three months afterwards, and has 1 een living concealer! with his friends, came into town with the Hokiauga li.M. to-day, having received a free pardon. Wellington, September 14. The ‘New Zealand Times’ says that Mr Vogel anticipates he will be back in Wellington within five or six months of the date of his departure. Sir Donald M‘Lean will visit his constituents at Hawke’s Bay at an early date. Auckland, September 14. The Luna has arrived. The Macgregor is due with the English mail (via San Francisco). Messrs Vogel and Russell are expected to proceed to Sydney in her. Queenstown, September 14. Mr Grace reports the Shotover mine looking as well as ever. The week’s yield is fiOoz. He is working under the level of the timber put in by Mr Evans and Mr Eager, which delays operations. The mine is now paying. Large sales of farming stock are becoming genera l . The news from the Palmer River excites a depressing influence. Christchurch, September 14. Mr Montgomery addressed the electors in the Town Hall, Akaroa, last night. There was a large attendance. The Superintendent was E resent. The address lasted for nearly two ours. On the question of the abolition of the Provinces, he spoke strongly and at length against, so large a constitutional change being introduced without the people being first consulted. He contrasted the General Government expenditure with the Provincial, and the results derivable therefrom, alleging that Mr Vogel would not get less expensive or more efficient machinery. He contended again that the country should have the opportunity of properly expressing its opinion by a dissolution. This was received with lone) chears. A unanimous vgte of thanks was passed to Mr Montgomery.