BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3719, 23 January 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

, . Wellington, January 22 A pnvate correspondent states that Colonel Fielding and Mr Halcombe started yesterday by coach for the Fielding block, which now contains an exceedingly populous township. Kecent arrivals thence speak less hopefully of the. prospects of the immigrants of the company than has been the practice hitherto. It is stated that directly a license is granted for a new public-house now in course of erection, another license will be applied for on behalf of the present accommodation house The ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ learns that an action has been commenced in the Court of Queens Bench by the Governments of New South Wales and New Zealand against Mr Hall, one of the joint contractors, and Mr De xmssolie, one of the sureties, for the temporary -paciuc mail service, to recover the amount of * TVT D r» Sin Henry James, Q.Q., and Mr Denmston Wood have beep retained for the plaintiffs; Mr Tinley for the defendant De Bussche The evidence of Hall was taken at great length, on the 16th November, in order to prove the due execution of the bond and other facts. An action has also been commenced m the Supreme Court of New York against Mr joint contractor with Hall ctvV 16 sei ' vice » aQ d another action in the State of Massachussets, against Mr Cunningham, the other surety. ’

Captain Mitchell, who had to take charge of the ship Jessie Headman, was found dead this morning in his cabin He had been many years sailing between Home and Now Zealand, and was well known in the Colony, -

m, -r> . NW PLYJiQUTk; January 23. ~he Provincial Council has adjourned sine die. ihe Appropriation Bill shows over L3O 000 voted this year. A motion was tabled re the abolition of Provinces, but did not come on. ihe schooner Clio has been safely got off the reef at Waitara, aud has put to sea, i immigration agent, has received letters from Mr Burton, agent in England, saying he has received plenty of applications from monied men, desirous of settling in New Zealand, but few from laborers.

m, , , Kaiapoi, January 23. Ihe polling for the election of a member for Kaiapoi district caused great excitement, and both candidates worked very hard. The result or the poll is as followsßowen, 294 • Bes. wick, 192; majority for Bowen, 102. Never here* 0 ‘ i n terest been taken in any election

Christchurch, January 23. Ac the inquest on the body of one of the men vprTw d f u V dl . e , a , ccideut at Sitmner, a \ erdict of accidentally drowned” was returned, ihe evidence showed that no blame was attachable to anyone. The three men drowned none mamed * oue leavea a child, the others

T trough Schools, costing about v£ fo ™ all y opened. Mrlngljs, gbairQ /i U i° . Boai ; c l clf Education, during a speech, said that in ISbo the attendance in all the school-numbered 1,651, atacostofL6,7oo, orover L 4 Is per head; but when the amended uidmanco was passed the attendance at all the schools numbered 5,652, at a cost of L 10.719 or only LI ISs per head In 1874 the number in ‘ T lt |q n ± nce w f s at 12,068, at a cost of L! 9,7 7 ?, or about Ll 12s per head. These estimates included tecs and Government grants for maintenance.

{From our own Correspondent.)

m, , Auckland, January *>3 Iberc arc about 120. diggers at Obincuturi engaged prosnecting, but nothing ofW im portance has Wen yet discovered. y A gentleman arrived at Brisbane fm,« ru i town describes the beat at the Lritev k * almost unendurable. In an mvr p aceas bouse the glass stood at 120des- «.? COO H' ons to bis departure P leVl ' a. natality «■> tt.

dysentery, is something terrible. “ The men are dying like rotten sheep,” said our informant. The Brisbane journals hoped the record of such facts will help to deter auy further exodus until the proper season. The ‘ Htar’s ’ Fiji correspondent cautions working men who contemplate proceeding there in consequence of annexation. He says there is no employment for artizans or any kind of laborers. A curious case was heard at the poliee court to-day. Edward Martin was committed for trial for stealing LI I from his mother-in-law. He pleaded in excuse that things were made so unendurably warm at home that be took the money intending to go away. He was arrested aboard the Derwent, bound for Sydney. The weather here is intensely hot. To-day the Resident Magistrate cleared the police court, which was oppressively crowded, by telling the constable to' go round amongst the spectators and collect the educational rate from defaulters. A general stampede followed this intimation, only a few out of the fifty present remaining. This may be taken as a good indication of the extent to which the rate is being evaded by one class of the community. An action for damages for malicious prosecution of duty, of Waikato, a settler, by another settler named Jolly, who wrongfully accused duty of stealing a heifer, terminated to-day in the Supreme Court in a verdict for plaintiff. L 250 damages. Napier. January 22. A gathering of Natives was lately held near Te Ante, at which there were present Messrs Sheehan, M.U.E., H. Russell, M.P.C., and some leading Native chiefs. The object of the meeting was to consider the advisability of establishing a Colonial Maori journal, of buy ing the ‘ Hawke’s Bay Times’ p'ant, and resuscitating that paper as an English Maori paper, the ‘ Whaka Maori’ not satisfying the wants of the Natives. Great dissatisfaction is expressed at Poverty Bay resprcting the treatment by the Auckland authorities re immigration, that district requiring single men, whereas married couph-s with families are only sent, who cannot get employment. The men find work, but no place or house accommodation for their families. In view of a repetition of such shipments the local journals advise sending them back to Auckland. At the sale of the township of Woodville, in the Seventy-mile Bush, by the Provincial Government, the sections realised extraordinary prices, hut the auction sales of Napier town jands show a decline in value, Cbomwelp, January 23. No fresh cases of fever are reported. The two girls attacked are improving. The Town Council have taken vigorous measures to prevent the spread of the disease, and no alarm is nqw felt. Wellington, January 22. The Manners-street Wesleyan Church was burglariously entered on Thursday night by means of a skeleton key. A cupboard containing the communion plate was forced by a chisel, which the burglars left behind. The plate, consisting of a jug and two cups, of silver, was stolen.