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Evening Star, Issue 3750, 1 March 1875, Page 2

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Wellington, February 27. The offices of Deputy Registrar to the Supreme Court, and Registrar of Births, Marraiges, and Deaths, vacated by the appointment of Mr Hammerlon to the post of Secretary of Stamps, have been conferred upon Mr H. C. Wilmer, for some -years secretary to Justice Johnston. Ne*v Plymouth, March L Messrs Brogden have got three months’ ox-, tension of time for the Waikara railway. Geahamstown, March 1, Obinemuri is to be proclaimed as a goldfield on Wednesday. All the steamers are leaving crowded with passengers. The City of Loudon is coming to the front again as a gold producing claim. The first crashing since the erection of the winding gear yielded 744 ozs. from 240 loads of stuff. LATEST AUSTRALIAN. Melboubne, February 17. The International Exhibition Commissioners have decided to ask Tasmania to join Victoria at the forthcoming Philadelphia Exhibition in the United States. The Presbyterian body has adopted a remonstrance against the Presbyterian Assembly’s action the Rev Mr Ewing’s case. Captain Barnard’s report favors the erection of a lighthouse at Point Netherby, King’s Island. Sydney, February 18. The steamer City of Melbourne reached San Francisco four days under contract time. All the members of the Sydney Ministry have been re-elected, unopposed. Launceston, February 18, George Mason, the jockey who rode Morris at the recent Hobart Town races, was arrested here to-day, _on warrant, charged with attempted criminal assault on a girl residing at New Town, on Monday, the 15th inst.