BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3740, 17 February 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

.Alexandra, February 16. Tawhaio and all his family have left for Kawai, where he intends for the future to make his principal residence. His son was here on Friday last, visiting the stores. There will be great competition amongst the iS atives at the agricultural show at Te Awamutu on the 3rd prox, Christchurch, February 16. At the Heathcote regatta, on Thursday next, there will be seven rowing races and twentythree competing crews. February 17. At the Board of Health meeting held yesterday, it was resolved to liberate the balance of immigrants by the ship Rakaia, excepting those families who had been affected by scarlet fever. The Superintendent said, in his opinion, the Public Health was' .thoroughly unworkable ; and it was decided that a special meeting of the Board should be held to consider the subject. The Hon, S. D. Hastings, the American Good j. emplars Delegate, arrived yesterday, and will lecture to-night. J * _ Wellington, February 17. Considerable dissatisfaction is expressed amongst shippers at a notice published yesterday by the Customs Department, to the effect that after the first of March officers of customs are to examine goods transhipped coastwise into vessels without sealed hatches, with the object of establishing a claim for duty in the event of non-delivery. (From our own Correspon<lents.)

Auckland, February 16. The Superintendent’s funeral has been delayed till Saturday with a view to allowing his sons to be present. The funeral will be a public one. The body will be placed in three coffins, including a leaden one. The part over the face will be cut out and a square of glass fixed, so that the face will be visible after the body is screwed down and remain so untH the time of the funeral, when the coffin lid will be fixed aud the body screwed down in an inner air tight compartment. The latest Ohinemuri news states that a steady influx of diggers has set in to the township, which is rapidly rising. There is a good deal of sensation talk about claims sent in to the Government, both General and Provincial, for pieces of land on the goldfield, but nothing at all has been resolved on with, reference to those. Parties are a little nervous. On one piece of a ground claim a coal seam has been discovered. Miners refrain from expressing their views of the field until they have security for any finds made, which avail not exist till the field is proclaimed. February 17 A fatal accident occurred in the Dauntless and Sink to Rise mine at the Thames. One of the tributers named David M’Farlane, a single man, thirty years of age. was working in slopes, when a mass of stuff a ton weight fell, crushing in his skull and causing instantaneous death.

A curious case came before the Police Court yesterday. The Rev. Dr Wallis (Presbyterian) charged a tailor’s journeyman with stealing the Church collections. The tailor had called on the parson early in the morning to ask him to perform a marriage at noon He was shown into the parlor, where the Sunday’s collections were lying in a bag on the table, and was left alone for ten minutes. After arrangements for the marriage had been made and the tailor had left, the bag was missed. Dr Wallis went to the wedding, and not liking to create a scene married the suspected thief, and afterwards Cejlliid him into another room Bud charge'! Itin) with the offence. He denied it, but oibnod to P a yrather than have any bother. 1-r Wallis declined, and gave information to tailor’s arrest followed. I'ailing direct evidence that the accused had lakdn the money. The case was dismissed. „ „ r Wellington, February 16. MrE. J. Wakefield, who for several montiis past has been in the Provincial Ho»- ;■ tal and was recently discharged with a new suit of clothes, paid for by subscription, was today linedujs for being drunk and iucapable. He made a ridiculous exhibition in court, and had to be forcibly removed by the police. ‘ The dinner to Mr John Martin last night was very largely attended. He and Sir Seed left in the Taranaki.

February 17. Mr Mills, collector of Customs at Lyttelton, has obtained six months’ leave of absence, ana is likely to retire permanently. Mr Bose, land surveyor at Auckland, is tA act as collector at Lyttelton daring Mr Mills’s _ absence. Mr Brewer, landing waiter at Wellington, succeeds Mr Rose; and Mr Slater, of Dunedin, takes Mr Brewer’s place there.