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Evening Star, Issue 3705, 7 January 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

W klmngton, January 6. Arrangements have been made with the New Zealand Company for the conveyance of the prize-firing representatives from Port Chalmers and intermediate ports to Manakau and back one of the vessels leaving Port Chalmers on the loth January, Lyttelton 17th, Wellington 19th. Pictos 19th, Nelson 21st, Taranaki 22ad, arrivl mg in Manukau on the 23rd inst. The Company agreed to take extra representatives at the same rate as those for whom passages are paid by Government viz,, 10 per' cent, off the usual re-turn-ticket r . yThe agents of the A.S.N. Co, here have received definite information that the present arrangement for the Californian service will continue six months longer. Mr Hugh George, manager of the Melbourne , P r °bably accompany the Rev. Charles Clark to New Zealand, as companion on his lecturing tour.

An influential and well-attended meeting was held last night at the Pier Hotel; his Worahip the Mayor in the chair—when it was resolved that anniversary day should be celebrated by a regatta and a dinner in the evening. A considerable sum of money was collected in the room, and it is expected that financially the forthcoming regatta will exceed any previous one. The dinner will not, as formerly, be a regatta dinner, but an anniversary one.

Grahamstown, January 6. The Mayor has called a public meeting, to consider the best means of receiving the Volunteer representatives. The Friendly Societies propose to hold a united demonstration on the arrival of the Volunteers from the South. m. ! , -^, EW Plymouth, January 6. Ihe quarters Customs returns show an increase of L 556. Hokitika, January 6. , innerous applications have been made to the Provincial Government by persons desirous' of taking up land under the special settlement regulations relating to Jackson’s Bay. Several applicants proceed to the settlement by the steamer Waipara next week. • There is considerable inquiry for land in the southern part of the Province. (From our own Correspondents.) Auckland, January 6, Ine attempt to form a company to'place the schooner Jessie Henderson Jn the South Se£ load timber for Lyttelton. Company has effected a large Native land purchase from the Poverty Bay Natives. Christchurch, January 7. Whitmore, for embezzlement, was acquitted, Keetley is now on trial for horse stealing. Mr Bowen addressed the electors at Rangiora yesterday evening. His remarks were a recapitulation of his speech at KaiapoL In answer to a question, he said “Mr Vogel, my coU e aß)h§i is a man who has done great service for the country, but tvith regard to the idea that one man conducts the Government of the Colony, if I thought such was the case I should not remain one day a member of the Government.”

Queenstown, January 7. The sequel of the case * Mail ’ v. ‘ Observer* and Warden Stratford v. Dr Douglas, is nov made known. Warden Stratford summoned Dr Douglas for a breach of the Act in not obeying Coroner’s subpoena at Cardrona. The case was heard to-day before an independent Bench of Magistrates at Arrowtowu and disa o a ' ns * ; Dr Douglas, with five pounds ten shillings costs. This dispute in poor humanity’s cause is one really of offended dignity. Who pays these costs—the Government or Warden btratford ? is the question being asked here. Rumors of reported fresh gold discoveries at Pyke s Creek, on the West Coast, are • current here. •>' >■ > • I

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS,

{From our own Correspondent )

Auckland, January’B. Advices from Mr H. M. Stanley, the ‘New York Herald’s’ commissioner in Africa, from Zanzibar, dated October 19, state that he has surveyed the delta of the Rufigi river, and found two navigable mouths, with distinct channels, into the interior of Africa. The route of the slave trade crosses this river. The result of the exploration suggests the means of effectually crushing the slave traffic. A steam launch, a steel gun, and a fiw marines stationed along the river would easily accomplish the work. Stanley, while ascending the nver, gathered valuable information, and established a trading station for the exchange of goods, native produce, oils, gums, and drugs. A correspondent of the ‘ Daily News’ telegraphs from Rome that the Pope, during an interview with the English Catholics, made some strong remarks relative to Mr Gladstone’s re cent work. He said Mr Gladstone was intoxicated by-the proceedings of another' Minister b< State, and characterised his attack as viper-like, and added —“ I was puzzled at beholding the vast progress made by that great nation in the path of the true faith. A fallen Minister hones to arrest the luminous triumph of the Church by interpreting after his own fashion the will of this poor vicar of Christ.” The libel case—Miss Pittondreigh v. Dr Kenealy—broke down, the plaintiff failing to produce evidence of the identity of Dr Kenealy as editor of the ‘ Englishman.’ The grasshoppers in Kansas have caused fearful devastation. Out of 158.000 acres of oorn planted not a bushel has been gathered and twenty thousand persons aye degtitute iii consequence.