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Evening Star, Issue 3775, 31 March 1875, Page 3

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Wnllinoton, March 80. The‘Post’ states that Judge Prendergast will to-morrow be sworn in as Chief Justice of the Colony, and that the oaths will be administered by Mr Justice Johnsten. The new Chief Justice will immediately leave for Otago te preside at the approaching sittings of the Supreme Ceurt there. The Rev. E. H. Granger, who is to be removal to Waikouaiti, Otago, was yesterday presented with a valuable writing desk by the children he has gathered to the Sunday School during the short time. he officiated here. A strong feeling of attachment has sprung up towards him amongst those who knew him. t j , Auckland, March 30. Judge Gillies arrived by the Ladybird to®y* Napier, Mareh 30. inere is much eiekness here, and several oases of typhoid fever are reported. Dr Gihbe published a letter in to-day’s ‘Herald’ on the^ subject and the want of hospital accommodation. Urgent cases were refused on the ground of no room. Alterations are much wanted, and the Local Board of Health are going to take the matter up. , Invercargill, March 30. At the inquiry into the cause of the late tire, held to-day by the Coroner, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that there was no evidence to show how it originated.' , _ . March 3L The local agents of the Transatlantic Insurance Compauy paid Lewis, Reed, and Co.’s policy of L 2.000 three days after the fire. No claim for salvage was made. Christchurch, March 31. A Are occurred at the stables of the Devonshire Arms Hotel yesterday afternoon. . Fortunately it was calm weather, and the smartness of the Fire Brigade prevented the flames spreading. The damage done is estimated at LIOO, and is partly covered by a policy of insurance for L4O in the South British Office. A valuable cart stallion and two mares, imported by Mr James Walls, have arrived from Scotland. The Acclimatisation Society has received advices of the shipment per Tmtorn Abbev of 1,010 birds and 500 leeches. ILATEST CABLEGRAMS. _ London, March 16. In the Mount and Morris case the Colonial Judgment ha* been reversed. An appeal has been allowed in the Bank of South Australia v Pollster. At a sacred consistory held at Rome yesterday, six cardinals were created, including Dr Manning, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster. Ten new archbishops were also appointed. _,. , . March 20. Obituary.—John Mitchell, lately elected M.P for. Tipperary, and Field Marshall Gomm, G.C.B. ’ His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales contemplates a visit to India in the cool season. The strike at Dewsbury among the woollen operatives has been settled. The University boat race for 1875 was won by Oxford by four lengths. Pathfinder won the Grand National Stakes. The Bishop of Munster has been imprisoned. The Prussian Chamber has disendowed the Roman Catholic Bishops who do not subscribe to the Civil Code. The strike in the woollen trade has terminated. RimmeU’s perfumery establishment in the Strand has been destroyed by fire. The New Zealand loan has been admitted on the Stock Exchange. The P. and O. steamer China left Galle for Melbourne on the 15th March. The moil by way of Brindisi wag delivered in London on the 18th March. _ . , Paris, March 20. The National Assembly adjourned on Monday with a probable dissolution, which is, however, as yet unsettled. M. Undreffret Las been elected President of the Assembly, LATEST AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, March 23, Tasmania won the return match at Ballarat in one innings, with eighty-four runs to spare. Mr George Bailey scored seventy-five runs. A volunteer commission has been appointed. It includes Sir John O’Shannassey, Sir George Yerdon, and Colonel Ward, as members. The ship Isabella, from London, reports passing the ship Manilla, of Glasgow, in a ■inking condition and abandoned. She had evidently been in collision. Mr J,. B. Ware, consul for Sweden, has been made a knight of the order of Vasa. At the Ballarat races, for the Grand National Steeplechase ton started. Hans Breitman won easily, Sheet Anchor being second, and All Fours third- The Grand Stand Stakes was won by Break o’ Day, with The Dane second. Brisbane, March 23, The barque St. Magnus, which arrived from Adelaide with a cargo of flour at Cape Morton, was compelled, through boisterous weather, to go to sea again, and was lost, having turned turtle in a gale. The s.s. Boomerang passed a vessel bottom up corresponding tothe description of the St. Magnus. The Government steamer, which went in search for survivors failed to find any trace of the wreck or boats.

News from Ceoktown to the 20th has been o/Sfrft- Singapore and Adria landed 800 Chinese from Hong Kong. The rush to Bloomfield River proved a hoax. Miners on the Normanby River are not doing anything. (Hie reefs on the Palmer are making a good show with dollies. Some are giving 16oz. to the hundredweight of stone. The blacks are stall very troublesome on the Upper Palmer. rm. t>- tn Adelaide. has men 15ft at Bourke. and loft at Buwaruna. The Gothenburg fund has reached L 4 000 bushela of wheat are Iring a t Fort Pm for shipment. J 6 {From our own Correspondents.} Ti . , Napier, March 30. It is reported that Mr Lascelles, solicitor 1 here, has been engaged by Robertson, the defaulting stevedore, to enter an action against MrSealy, RM., for LSOO damages, for alleged Illegal arrest at Wanganui. Robertson bolted to Wanganui, and was brought back on warrant for wife desertion,.which allowed his creditors to make claims upon him. ■ olenß0 ’- 0 * ¥' lexicon notoriety, was sued this morning by Hooper, a tobacconist, for the vfllue of goods supplied to Colenso’s reputed hatt-caste son. The claim amounted to LLZ for tobacco, perfumery, whiskers, etc.. The halfe-caste is now on his way to England Oolenso pleaded the maturity of the bov ami got a nonsuit.

Mr r- • „, Auckland, March 30. Mrs Darrell has re-appeared at the Prince ef Wales Theatre with her husband since the ter . mxnation of the Hoskins’s engagement. Last night the house was crowded by the largest audience of. the season to witness Mr Darrell’., drama “ A Struggle for Freedom.” Thodmna has been very successful, and it possesses considerable merit.

The caro placed by the Acclimatisation Society m Lake Taupo ha ve multiplied remark mbly, the netting and drying them ■Sojiio an five pounds in weight. Confidence in Ohinemuii is increasing. It is bel eved the reefs will be more patchy A coi respondent, siting from the field, states W'.SWSy* V pong Tom,” who wrote to the N.Z. Times, is a miner named SutherXand, who was at the Thames a few yean ago but haver went beyond'RopataV settlement,aßfSV®,n^y A® *° nl<i h » T# no knowledge of the district. The correspondent also adds that theater |n the Otago 'Timn,’ who followed °f Long Tom,”/ is shrewdly supF o '*d to be an ex<omedian or eitons elown. number, of minor accidents fill to-night’s \ c . waa pitched out of a cart, Mr barrister, thrown froml his, horse, a J^ n^ er , 8 , noße waß smashed off, by a durin g a game of “duekr.lfi bric^*yer wading on the-beach family on Raster Monday,, cut his foot

At an auction of fruit from the northern part of Auckland Pro vine* and from Nslson, th* ‘°” n ® r realised much the highest prices, from which the ‘Cross’ argues the superiority of Auckland for growing fruit. Heed and Brett, proprietors of the ‘ Star,’ hare instructed their solicitors- to issue a writ for libel against the * Lyttelton Times,’ unless an apology is immediately made for publishing telegrains in its issue of the 22nd inst., stating that Reed and Brett personally superintended bill-stickers while posting over the Hon. Mr Fox’s bills announcing his farewell temperance lectures. Both proprietors were absent from town when the bill-stickers posted over a few of Mr Fox’s placards, which had been surreptitiously placed on the ‘ Star’s boards.

A man named Booker, one of Barron’s party, who came up from Christchurch to the Thames Shortly after the opening of Ohinemuri, has been lost in the bush. He was at work on a claim about five miles back, where it is believed the men had a good show, and was missed from the claim soon after crib time. Little notice was taken then of his absence, as it was thought he had remained to rest in the tent. At the next meal, being still absent, his mates began to wonder what had become of him. He was last seen going in the direction some prospectors had taken, who had called at the tent. The search was continued for three days by his mates, the poliee, and the Natives. Ultimately his body was found in the Ohinemuri river, about two miles above Mackaytown. It is believed he fell over a cliff while prospecting up the river. The body, which was found in a largo waterhole, had a nasty cut over one eye. Booker was a resident of Riccarton, Canterbury, where his parents reside.