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Evening Star, Issue 3715, 19 January 1875, Page 2

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Grahamstown, January 18. On Saturday afternoon, at the Volunteers’ firing at the Parawai rifle range, Sergeant Cleary, one of the markers, was shot, the ball striking him near the shoulder blade and coming off the fleshy part of the right arm. The wound is not considered dangerous, but is very plainful. _ Oleary was out registering a shot and cleaning the target, but frond' some cause or other the danger flag was not observed frdia the firing point. The wounded man was brought down the creek in a boat and taken to the Hospital. Auckland, January IS. Two boys were bathing in a water-hole at the river head, got out of depth, and were drowned. _Th\>‘Uilharee’e immigrants have been landed They are in good health. The voyage was un*. eventful. Nine deaths occurred. New Plymouth, January IS. A penny evening paper called the* Budget ’ was started to-day by Mr James Keuworthy, ate of Wellington Its sudden appearance has taken everyone by surprise. . Christchurch, January 18. Harvest operations are in full swing. The weather is very favorable. The special reports

obtained by the ‘ Lyttelton Times ’ from all the districts show that the average yield will be larger than for njany years past. Oafs will preponderate. The Jockey Club have unanimously endorsed the action of the Dunedin Jockey Club in the disqualification of Mabel and Andrew Michelson, the jockey who rode her in the St. Andrew’s Handicap. k Hokitika, January 10. ch of settlers for the new settlement at Jackson’s Day left yesterday by the steamer Waipara. Westport, January 19. On Sunday night a cargo boat, which had conveyed the machinery for the Halcyon claim np the Mohikinui River, on her return trip Capsized, and five men were drowned. Their names were Peter Seaton, Wm. Millar, Wm. Hall, Benjamin Rnudcll, and Nichol George. The sixth man (named Carter) escaped. (From our own Correspondents.) Auckland. January 19. Tt is understood that the only condition on which Mr T. P>. Gillies accepted the judgeship was that he was located at. Auckland. Some dissatisfaction exists among the lawyers at f dating him on this circuit, on account of his msiness and personal relations, which are considered likely to militate against an impartial discharge of his duties. The City Council has received a letter from the Town Clerk of Lyttelton, offering to cooperate with Auckland in getting a Colonial Corporations Gas Bill passed. The letter from the Town Clerk of Dunedin on the same subject stated that the Dunedin City Council had already secured that object for Dunedin. Ten men of the Thames Rifle Association fired a match against the Wanganui Association, and made a total of 764 points, losing by 107 The scores of Auckland are as follows Armstrong. 93 ; Hoskins, S9 ; Murray, 86 ; Gordon, 82: Fenton, 81; Clvk, 80; Brown, 73 ; M'Lean, 62; Grant, 61; Carpenter, 55. Clyde, January 19. Dr Stirling reports to the local board of health at Cromwell the reappearance of typhoid fever. The cases are limited to two. Lawrence, January 19. A large number of horses have arrived for the Lawrence Race Meeting. The course is in good order, and the town is rapidly filling with visitors. Port Chalmers. January 10. The vessels in harbor and at thejflagstaff had their colors half-mast high this afternoon, on account of the death of the wife of Captain Louden. MORE ABOUT THE COSPATRICK, (From our own Correspondent.) Auckland, January 18. The Cospatrick calamity will have a most damaging effect on immigration. Many of the Dilharrie immigrants, just landed, were completely overcome on hearing the intelligence of the Cospatrick’s loss, and expressed the greatest thankfulness for what they regarded as a personal escape, some of them having expected to be shipped by the Cospatrick. A large proportion of the Glenlora’s passengers had addressed their boxes “per Cospatrick.” Matthews, a deserting seaman from the ship Assaye, was brought before the police-court under special circumstances. He had a wife and family in England, hut on the voyage out had ingratiated himself in the favor of an immigrant’s wife, and levanted with her. He was sent to gaol for twelve weeks. There is extensive alarm re the measles. The disease is of a malignant type, and is likely to cause many deaths among the Maories. An attempt was made at the Thames to remove an infected child from the parents’ home to the Hospital to prevent the spread of the disease, but the parents flatly refused, and no power is possessed to force them. Major Gordon and ten members of the Armed Constabulary have arrived at the Thames for the Colonial firing. The mantles are nearly finished, and the mounds being constructed. The range is a very unfavorable one for the Thames men. It is well sheltered, while the ranges on which the Thames men practise are open in all weather. “ Dead on ” shots stand a good chance for the belt. THE AUCKLAND ‘STAR’ AND JUDGE GILLIES. {From our own Correspondent) Auckland, January 19. Mr J. Peace sends a letter to the ‘ Star,’

referring to the accession of Mr Gillies to the Bench, and making such grave charges against him that the ‘Star’ says it would be dangqrous to print it, and adds with respect to Mr Gillies“ We regard his present position as one protecting him from criticism of his past political life. During that life be has been subjected to keen criticism, but he has usually given a Rowland for an Oliver. Now, however, Mr Gillies is as a dead man, and the adage says. Nil nisi bonnm de mortuis. Despite what our correspondent says, we believe Mr Gillies to be one of the best judges in New Zealand. By his demeanor in that office he will stand or fall; and as he is utterly precluded from making a defence to anything said against his past political actions, we shall be no party to attacks on those actions now.” Mr Peace’s ground of complaint is that Mr Gillies’s action while Superintendent led to the suppression of his fish-curing establishment. The ‘Star,’ alluding to the address occupying five columns of the ‘ Herald,’ and purporting to be a speech to his constituents delivered by Mr Munro, M.H.R., who is known in the House as “the silent member,” says “Mr Munro never uttered a word of the speech published in his name. Wo will guarantee that' it is an imposition on the public, and that he never delivered the address, except to the ‘ Herald ’ office. He did try one once at Wangarci; that is he got up, and, instead of speaking or trying to, sounded one long continuous growl that sent his audience into fits of laughter. He sat down without being able to say one word, yet the next week his address filled a page in the ‘ Herald.’ The speech was then much commented on by the Southern Press, and this exposure of the way it)was attempted to be delivered in small country districts ninety miles from Auckland is regarded as a rich joke.” The Onehunga people are agitating for increased wharf accommodation, to provide for the wants of the Dunedin Company’s new line of steamers. The wharf accommodation is now insufficient for the business of the port. THE LYTTELTON MURDER. [FyQi]\ our own Correspondent.) Chkistchubuh, .January 19. A verdict of wilful murder against Thomas Mercer, for the murder of Isabella Thompson, has just (3.30 p.m.) been returned by the jury at the adjourned inquest. THE REPORTED RUSSIAN CONSPIRACY. (From the Press Agency.) Wellington, January 19. We have it on undoubted authority that there has been a gigantic conspiracy in Russia, though officially denied. It was intended to assassinate the Governors of fourteen Provinces. Some of tdio best families in the country are implicated. Young ladles have been arrested and sent to Siberia, and the inhabitants of two whole villages have been also sent there.