BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3754, 5 March 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

' • , Auckland, March 4. r Messrs Graham and Sheehan proceeded to Aawau to-day to present a requisition to Sir George Grey for tne Superintendency, and to ask rum to express his views, A fine seam of coal has been struck in a drive at Wangarei mine, which has been in > for eighteen months and , HL l»020ft long. The drive was valued by Dr ; Hector as worth L 2.000, and has been carried out wholly by working men on their own account. The Daphne, from Levuka, brings later Fiji , papers, but nothing important. Two informations were sworn to-day by Oap- , tain Burgess, pilot, against the captain of the i emigrant ship India, charging him with inter- , fermg with the discharge of his duties, and also with calling him “ a damned liar.” x .... Wanganui, March 4. In a rifle match with Nelson, the Wanganui Volunteers scored 490 out of a possible 600. Nelson did not fire. Scheriff’s dwelling-house on No. 2 Line was burned down at four o’clock this morning, The inmates narrowly escaped, and nothing was saved. The premises were insured in the Liverpool and London Office for LBOO. . # Chbistchubch, March 4. - "? m H^P r 2y mc ial boat race has been arranged for the 20th March. Another length of twenty miles of the southern railway from Ashburton to Rangi- * a cT • be ready f° r opening on May 1. ~A Snider carbine match between ten men of the Cavalry and ten of the Artillery was fired yesterday. 1 ive shots each at 150, 200, and 300 yards. The Artillery scored 466, and the Cavalry 437. Sergeant Fox, of the Artillery, made 57 out of a possible 60. 3 At the Philosophical Society’s mating last night a letter was read from Mr Woodfield, of Uxford, respectingthesupposed moa footprints. Dr Erins and Dr Powell said they had seen the casts made by Woodfield, and had no doubt that the footprints were those of a wallabi. Edward Hayton fell into a well at Addington last night, and when extricated was dead. a- Tauranqa, March 5. sir Donald M Lean arrived per Luna yesterday, and was enthusiastically received. He is now busy at the Lands Court. Napikb, March 5, I wo ether fires have occurred in the Poverty Lay district. Mr Poulgram’s seven-roomed house was burned, and nothing saved, and Mr Mulloley s hotel, at Tologa Bay, was also burned. They occurred in the day time. The Gisborne music hall had a narrow escape from fire on Wednesday night through the bursting or a kerosene lamp. {From our own Correspondents.) a PoBT Chalmers, Marchs. An accident happened this afternoon to a lad named James Buchanan, belonging to the ship term i Whl ? , on the railway pie? sh^t^i l^ merS J.i l,e r eU ’ aud 80me trucks being shunted down the Ime at the same time one s ruck him on the hip. He was examfned by So™ K’ Wh °’ alth °ugh satisfied no bones ? ken^t COm ? ended his removal to the • P tmin Whltller h ° Was takeu by the 3<3 ° . « i , Chbistchubch, March 4. 1 appeared in the issue of the ‘ Globa’ < a ™- onda y last, in which the Press Telegraph < Agency were found fault with, and some of its « officers were said to be incapable and blunder- ] , Captain Holt, manager for Messrs , B r °gaen, wrote a furious letter to the editor of t the Globe,’ which is published to-day in a ' leader commenting on it. Captain Holt has 1 stopped all Press Agency telegrams to the 8 Globe, and the editor in his article to-day € declares that if the paper is not to be allowed 8 to find fault with those whom it pay* to supply t

a public want, then other papers will follow his example, and cut the painter which binds them 0 to® ■Tress Agency. He says th*tt those connected with New Zealand journ.duira v ill not allow Mr Holt or Mr anybodv el -:e -o J ciatc to or i:. > li»:r obserthn.t matters -of importance, and that the Globe ’ will make an effort to anrVl Tlip l o; oU V he i>re ß ß Agency telegrams. °P ened last night at the OddHaU t0 the audience that ever met any company on an opening night. The hall was crammed in every part, and the nerThe jam fair willbe held to-morrow, for which 1,990 rams of all breeds have been entered, and a still larger number of ewes are also to be disposed of on the ground. It is expected that the fair will be the most successful ever held here. Castaway is doing good work for the Dunedin Cup, but his chance is very little fancied here. If we have a dark one up here with any chance it is Hercules, but I would advise no-one to back him until he is safely landed at Dunedin. mn -r, . , , Wellington, March 6. xne Provincial Surgeon pronounces the disease on board toe Malay, from Hobart lown, to be scarlet fever. The boat and passengers are in quarantine. The agreement between the Corporation and Provincial Government for the purchase of the ihorndon reclaimed land by the former, has been formally completed. , Times’ Company’s balance-sheet, for fourteen months’operations, shows a profit of only L 289 13s 2d, without any allowance for depreciation of plant or bad debts. There is great discontent amongst the shareholders, mu in ~,, , Aocklanu, March 4. , ®. tlcrald to-day criticises the criminal statistics of Christchurch, and says'“Christchurch, the City of the plains, appears from its criminal records to be a very wicked cnmmn. nity indeed, and quite different to what should have been supposed from its very respectable belongings. It has very many churches, very many clergymen, excellent schools richly endowed, has some noble institutions, and prospenty reigns supreme among all classes ; but, notwithstanding all this, Christchurch must be a very hotbed of crime and impurity.” The same journal criticises the land sales of Canterbury being made to sustain a falling Provincial revenue, and says the wiser coarse would be to so regulate the outlay or delay the expenditure or sums voted, and avoid the sacrifice of the people s birthright; but economy is a virtue which our Canterbury friends never studied, and cannot under the position of affairs which necessitates the drawing in of toe purse strings. 1 hey will, however, have that lesson to study before very loffg, especially if they try many such experiments simply to relieve the Executive of a part of their anxiety. Referring to the * Globe’s ’ reply on the Canterbury cricketers’ behalf, the ‘Star’ to-night BR J S Our remarks the other day on the want of cricketing spirit shown by Canterbury 111 11 10 ? J’ e^'J rnin K the Auckland team’s visit has caUed forth a very hot rejoinder in the Christchurch Globe,’ which has been telegraphed to us to-day. Our strictures were, perhaps, rather severe, but the object was to provoke a raid trom the South upon our Auckland stumps. If Canterbury or another Province will come and play us, say at the beginning of next season, they may count upon a warm welcome. We doubt if a single Auckland cricketer has ever . or ? that it was an understood thing that Canterbury would come to Auckland.”