BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3679, 7 December 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, December 7, Arrangements are behigmade 'forth* refcpptioii of the new Governor. The various orders or I'nendly Societies are to be comnmicated with as to taking part in the puolic demonstration Ihe Governor is expected to arrive on b inlay, whicli will be the proclaimed a public holiday. [■Sent 1.10 p.m. ; received 3.15.J (From our own Correspondents.) Lawrence, December 7. A man named Harry Kusmusscu was killed at Herbert and Co.’s i’uapeka Mouth sawmills on haturdny afternoon. A piece of wood fly. nig off a saw struck him on the chest and he died four hour* after from internal hemorrhage. r t 1' elrington, December 7. In the on i t of Appeal, to-day, the Court gave judgment in Dodson v. Macandrew for the defendant, with costs. m, Auckland, December 5. Thcie uas a gallant rescue from drowning QI A , lad ua “. ed M‘Endil fell off thl named TVi'v- 6 hj 1111 V 1 * 0 le "'ater, and a man saved him theU lmheslt:ltiD S l y jumped in and Tn onn fiU f ll n e °. f M . r r A l lender ’ Boa P toiler, for Mr,T. C. Morrin’s failure for Rotii „• i ® a feeliug of uneasiness. the ban'/™ n n- U ? dlt to !l clilllax by pressure of the banks, which are putting the screw on. The arge imports and clearances for Home consumption should indicate good business and a sound state of trade, but the extreme caution of the banks connected with the failures above noticed may bring about a serious commercial crisis, lucre is a general feeling of madness in com*

mercial circles, and great tightness of money, but the harvest ami wool season have improved. Summer trade ami other fortuitous circumstances may carry it off. The whaling barque Splendid, thirty-five days from Dunedin, put into the Bay of Islands on Tuesday last to repair damages to her rudder head, which had been wrenched during the late heavy weather. No whales were seen during the cruise. She expects to sail on Saturday. There is commercial depression in liquors; vale of Hennessy’s brandies, wholesale, having been made at as low as 8s 9d per gallon. Riverton, December 5. The local company fired in the final stage for Colonial representatives, with the following results Private Cuff, 80 ; Sub-Lieut. Robinson and Sergt. Henderson, 79 each.