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Evening Star, Issue 3774, 30 March 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

„„ ' , . Auckland, March 29. ihe Mayor to-day laid the foundation stone or the Auckland Waterworks. About 150 guests were invited by the contractors, and partook or a collation afterwards. ,The ® ,ev ‘ Mr Penny, recently arrived from Melbourne to join the Melanesian Mission, does not come as bishop, as stated in the Anstrahan telegrams, but only as a olergymn. He is expected per Cyphr-mes,

, * oAf. , Nelson, March 29. About 300 attended the Easter Volunteer encampment, Wellington sending a small detachment. In gun-drill and mounting and dismounting, Nelson beat Wellington, the former having the gun down and up in Imin 20sec.

m . Christchurch, March 30. ihe theatrical costume cricket match, yesterday, was very successful. The dresses were good, and the play very amusing. There was n large attendance, but owing to the law not permitting a charge to be made to the cricket ground, which is public property, only L3O was re ®f* v ®d in voluntary c 'ntributions at the gates; xhe annual rifle associations meeting yes ter day passed off successfully. The principal prize, a ESO challenge cup, seven shots, at 400, 500, and 600 yards, was won by Sergt. Beattie, of the Engineers, with 63 points. (From our own Correspondents.) Napier, March 29, ihe ketch Gaunette, from Timaru to Lyttelton, put into this port on Thursday short of water and provisions. She reports leaving ximaru on the 16th inst.; had light variable winds till the 20th. When off Bank’s Peninsula, encountered a succession of gales from the west and south-west, which drove her to Cape Palliser, when being short of provisions, she ran before the gale to Napier, and having reprovisioned aud ballasted sailed for Lyttelton on Saturday.

_ , _ ~ Auckland, March 29. John Smith, proper of the Combination iroupe, writes from Melbourne to the ‘ Star,* indignantly protesting against numbers of wandering companies now travelling about under his name.

Wellington, March 30. Dr Johnston, Provincial Surgeon, and Drs Diver, France, and Harding have addressed a protest to the Registrar-General against*' his registering as a medical practitioner a person claiming under a diploma as a doctor of medicine of Philadelphia,, as they say no such degrees can be obtained for money without examination or a regular course of study.