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Evening Star, Issue 3725, 30 January 1875, Page 2

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, Napier, January 28. • twenty-six deaths of children have occurred m Napier since the Ist January, most of them being from diarrhoea. Sickness is very prevalent, deaths having occurred from typhoid fever. It is reported that the germs of the disease were brought in the bedding belonging to the immigrants per Clarence. No such mortality was known before here.

District Judge Weston proceeds to his new district, on the West Coast of the Middle Island, to-night. Large numbers of valuable thorough-bred long-woolled rams will be sold after the ram fair, to be held ou February 4.

Auckand, January 29. The Cross/ referring to Mr Fellows and other detractors of the Oolouy in Britain, stigmatises their effusions as wflfni and malicious falsehoods, and denounces them as libels.. Referring to the decrease in the Post Office Savings Bank returns at Dunedin last quarter , the same journal says—“ The money market in Dunedin has exhibited a stringency not exhibited an Zetland, leading to the belief that the peple of the southern city have been speculating rather extensively/’ General disppointment is felt by the complete failure of the race for trading vessels of over twenty-five tons through the objection by the owner of the schooner Albatross to a rule of the Regatta Committee. The disagreement resulted in LSO of public money being quietly' pocketed by owner of the shoonerT*eerless who made two bogtc entries to make a race! ihe cutter race was a great success, twelve clipper vessels competing. The Undine won by seven minutes; the Petrel, Heather Bell,' Katrina, and Borrowdale finished within ■ five minutes of each other. The yacht race, for yachts of over nine tons, was the finest race seen; here for many years although the small yachts were placed at a great disadvantage against the larger sUes, of more than double the tonnage. The smaller yachts were sometimes almost buried in the waves. The Floetwing, winner of the last regatta, hoisted a gafftopsail, notwithstanding that a gale was blowing- and the heavy sea kept heeling her over until the water ran along her decks on The lee side, keeping the men constantly baling. when she came in she had 18m -of water in ’her bottom. Two or three of her crew of sailors were almost helples ly sea*sick-during the race. The Good Templar, an iron yacht two tons larger than the Fleet* wffig, was much stiffer and bent less to the wind, and beat the Fleet wing by some minutes, 1 he race lay entirely between the Secret and the Daphne, the former a now yacht. The latter ran at lust regatta, and was beaten by the Winona, built for Mr Stoeot, of Dunedin, rt wah rttnafckeU that m Winwm, # ® anfl fcj'

good sailing trim, would have left all her rivals astern, and regret was expressed that no southern yachts competed. In the race for yachts of under nine tons the favorite boat’s gear carried away while winning, and the next boat capsized and sank. No lives were lost. •■All the vessels in the sailing races, numbering forty'; three, from five tons to seventy-bight, were Auckland-built. * * *