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Evening Star, Issue 3772, 27 March 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

■ ■ _ Auckland, March 26. Mr Hanna, a clerk in the Bank of New Zea:land, and Mr Minsky, of Hobson street, vouch for the following statement, published in the Cross “ About eight o’clock last evenmg. we were standing talking at the top of Hobson street, when a man, who had all the appearance of a maniac, was seen approaching making faint signs of being in distress. When he got up close to us he staggered over against a fence and fell We happened to see something around his neck, which led ua to believe he was not able to speak. We rushed to see what was the matter, and finding he had met with foul play, I, with Alexander M’Lusky’s assistance, earned him to a shop close at hand, when a deplorable sight met our eyes. The young man gasped, and had a rope looped tightly around his neck-so tight that it had buried itself in the flesh round the throat. His hands were securely fastened. We undid the ropes quickly, and after administering cold water several times, the poor felbw gradually came round, and narrated a story to the effect that he was the individual—a nephew of Dr Barton—who was stuck up last night on the Barrack Hill, and that on coming up opposite, the (criterion Hotel, he was accosted by two men, in masks—one putting his fingers down his throat, while the other bound him as described, and threw him like a log over a fence into a paddock adjoining the residence of Dr Coke. He managed to scramble up after lying insensible for some time, and round he had lost a purse containing L 5 odd. He was found as already described. No clue has been obtained to the perpetrators of the deed.” A large number of diggers for Ohinemuri arrived by the Hero.

■Wellington, March 26. ij a ® aM^e ’ announces that Mr George Houtflower Davy has been appointed Registrargeneral of Land. He is also to be District Land Registrar and Registrar of Deeds for the District of Canterbury, vice Mr J. S, Williams resigned. », ... , _ . . March 27. , 1 he Alhambra sails South at 4 p.m. to-day Passengers; Hon. W. S. Petrie, Mr Barry, and Mrs Walter Johnston. The Wellington sailed for Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. Passtngers; Mr, Mrs, and Miss Harris, Messrs Runsby, Dickens, Sealigh, Patterson, Sullivan. Quartly, Hutching, Black, and Somerville. New Plymouth, March 27. Braden s schooner Julius Vogel, in entering the Waiiara River yesterday, touched the ground on the bar, causing the captain to lose all command over her, when she went with full force into the wreck of the Paterson, She now lies on the main deck with her head between boilers, The accident happened at noon when the tide was ebbing, LATER EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS.- i r_ • Bluff, March 26. The Omeo arrived at 9 a.m. She left Melbourne on the ,20th instant, and brings twentyfive saloon and forty steerage passengers, sixty-four horses, and 350 tons cargo for all

ports.. The overland telegraph line having been interrupted several days, no cable news is to hand. The Omeo will not sail till to morrow afternoon, to-day being a public holi- _ passengers: For Dunedin—Messrs Cargill, pP ggß > Findlay, Childs, Rowe, Mitchell, Orr, Peacock, and thirty-nine steerage; fifty-eight horses, and 200 tons cargo.