BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3610, 17 September 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

WELtitNo'foN, September 16. The Southern portion of the San Francisco mail will be lorwardecl per Phoebe. His Excellency left in h ; a yaeht Blanche for a cruise this afternoon. It is understoodi ahe will touch at Picton and Nelson. _ _ , ''September 17. Mrs Sam Howard, formerly a well-known actress, died t!ns morning of rheums tic fever. The N.Z.S.S. Company have abandoned the idea of selling then- flevt, and intend to ««t * en si nea fitted in ihe Taranaki and the Wellington; also to obtain new vessels, and carry on their business with renewed vigor. ine Cross, referring to last night’s interrupuon, says the people of Auckland will regret haying permitted the lawyer who indulges m malicious and false libel, and is ready to traduce better men than himself, so to disturb the meeting, and allow it to be misled so as to affront, in the presence of the people, the people’s representative, and the astute man to whom New Zealand owes more of her advancement in social and commercial prosperity and progress than to any other man who has had a share in the Government of the Colony. Nelson, September 16. A fatal accident is reported from French Pass. On September 1, two Maoris and a white woman nan ed Eliza Smith attempted to cross from Danville’s Island to Elmslie's in a dingy. The boat was sucked under by a I whirlpool and the Maoris drowned. Smith ■ kept herself afloat with a paddle while she stripped, and then swam for the shore. Her cries were heard by Elmslie, who, with her brother and Webber, put out and rescued her ! just as she was sinking.