BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3674, 1 December 1874, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Auckland, November 30. Cecilia Allen, a young girl in service with Mr Howard, North Shore, whose house was burned on Friday, has been arrested for arson. The circumstances seem to indicate that the girl was afflicted with a mania for incendiarism. The house had caught fire several times, and on the last occasion a man passing went in and found the girl removing the furniture out of the way of the flames. The five then got; such a hold that it was impossible to extinguish it. The ‘ Star ’ draws attention to the -fact that the Assembly was prorogued until to-morrow, and has not been further prorogued, and that there is no Governor here now to do it. The Hydaspes’s single men immigrants will be released to-morrow from quarantine. New Plymouth, November SO. The Natives living along the Coast of Pahiriki have been trying to change some waterwashed Sydney bank notes. They ray they found them in the pocket of a waistcoat washed ashore at the end of September. They say that they found fifteen notes in one pocket and throe in another. They also found some olothes in a seaman’s bag. It is supposed now that the wreck reported was the Ellinor, from Newcastle, for Lyttelton. Wellington, December 1. The argument in Dodson v. Macandrew, before the Court of Appeal, has been concluded, but the Court has taken time to consider its decision. [Sent 10.30 a,m. ; received 11.30 a.m.] (From our own Correspondents ) Lawrence, December 1. The concrete roof of the Collonado new Courthouse fell in this morning with a great crash. The damage is extensive, and the loss Will fall on the contractor.

Auckland, November 30. Mr Passmore, the superintending engineer of Government railways, has ended his scheme of economy by discharging the Auckland stationmaster, whose salary is L3OO, and appointing an unexperienced ticket clerk to the bead charge of the railways open in the Province at a salary of Ll5O a-year, with a clerk at LSO allowed. Great dissatisfaction is expressed with this system of economy, in which the newspayers participate fully, as he desires free advertising in exchange for carrying newspaper parcels, except the evening paper, which has no circulation it need care about. The other journals cannot see it. The Masons are at loggerheads over the reception of the Governor. The head of the Irish constitution says he has had enough of Masonry, and thinks of resigning; consequently he refuses to order a Lodge meeting to receive the Marquis of Normandy, who is a high Masonic officer. The other Lodges told him the sooner he resigns the better. So matters stand. There is great dissatisfaction among Masons throughout the Province at the apointment, by the Otago branch, of Mr M'Cullogh, a Thames Mason of only a few years standing, to the Provincial Grand Mastership for the North Island, under the Scottish constitution, oyer the heads ot old and high Masons.

The officials of the various banks got a holiday yesterday, on the plea of receiving the Governor ; but as his Excellency did not arrive, they dsqm another day out imperative.