BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3612, 19 September 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

mu -r, . .Wellington, September 18. iho Provincial Government have advertised for sale on October 26 one hundred thousand acres of pastoral and agricultural land One block adjoining the Rangitikei district con--44,000 aores J another, on the East Coast. 43 acres. There are other blocks, of which 6,000 acres are in the vicinity of Wellington. The Post states that the General Government have, without any legal authority, advanced L 5.000 at five per cent, to Mr Halcombe, for the purpose of being expended in public works on the Manchester Block, better known as Fielding’s Settlement, During last session Mr Halcombe, who is Colonial manager, applied to have given back security to the extent of L 7,500, which they had given the Government for due performance of the conditions of contract, but the Provincial Government refused.

Messrs Pearce and Hunter address their constituents on the 23rd instant. _ The Strathnaver still remains under arrest. The first proceeding in the Vice-Admiralty Court will not take place before the 22nd instant.

The Port Chalmers tenders have been accepted. The following are the tenders • Hawkins and Co. (informal), L 41,542 : Strachan (accepted), L 47.968 ; W. P. Pearce, Lsl 000 • Safe aWf-

rr. „ , . September 19. His Excellency s cruise will probably last better th Th« Weekß- LadyF e r «usson is much better. Ihe younger members of the family go Home in the Halcxone. His Excellency wifi leave at or about the time the Marquis of N™ mandy is releived by Mr Cairns, of the Govern"hiohprobab^be

m. .. ■ Cromwell, Septembei 19. The excitement here about Mr Logan’s nonarrival was caused through blood havinv been i"i eat « f 6 buggy out of wluoh he apparently fell Mr Logan u all right, being

only a little bruised. Mr Logan had been down with a cake from Bendigo, and was going home after midnight, possibly saber. His pipe fell from his month on to the road, and he got down to pick it up, but in getting in again the horse started, dragging him a little way, which accounts for the blood marks. The animal went to the ferry without him. Mr Logan turned up at Marsh’s farm in the morning. ... . Taobakoa, September 19. j deluge of rain has occurred inland lately, and the rivers are all rising rapidly. A remark* able waterspout was wituessed near Opotiki yesterday.