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Evening Star, Issue 3785, 12 April 1875, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

TM A . , „ , Gbbtmodth, April 1L .Delaney, the Wellington pedestnan, ran against time, ten miles in the hour. The ground was very rough, but the .distance was accomplished in 59min Ssecs.

. . , Auckland, April 10. •An inquest was held to-day on the body of the infant of a laborer named Barton, whose wife, the mother of the, child,'has been mentally afflicted for the last twelve years. - On rhursday, in a state of restlessness, she turned her sister-in-law out of doors,'-using strange menaces and threats. A short *imo after, within the space of a hour, Barton’s little girl, who had been playing with other children, came in doors, and found her mother in bed, with a newly-bom dead baby on the floor. The inquest was adjourned tall the mother was able to attend.

A Maketu telegram states The departure of Sir Donald M'Lean last gMrt was celebrated with almost vice-regalsCgnificence. He was accompanied to the beach by nearly 500 people. On the Luna reaching the head ef the Kaitpna River he was saluted with six 30ppimd guns from the shore. On Sir Donald reaching the vessel Captain Fairchild illuminated the whole ship, which steamed away amid deafening cheers from the shore.”-

, WXLLINOTON, April 12. Exports from this port for the last quarter amounted to L 265,000. There was no phorrcrcum exported to England during the quarter, and only three little lots of about LL6OO declared value to Melbourne. The writ for the RangitUcei election has been issued. The nomination is next Monday, and the polling on the 24th.

LATER EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

m. _ Blow, April 1L ■ The Tararua, with the English majl left Melbourne at 7 p.m. on the 6th instant, and armed at the Bluff Heads at 9 p.m. on the 11th; She will sail for Dunedin at 4 p.m, en the 12th.

Passengers .-—Miss Cose, Messrs EWcdale, Fulton, Mnnro, Houghton, M'Kan, Nome, Mr A. Parker; Mesdames Hudson, Nome, three children, and servant, Masters Charles and Frank Ryan, Captain M ‘Einnon, eighteen steerage, and 135 tons of cargo, AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, April 6. Parliament has been summoned for despatch of business on the 25th of May. The Premier and Postmaster-General held forth at a banquet the other night, but vouchsafed no indioatioU'Of the Ministerial policy. The idea is gaining ground that it is their intention to impose direct taxation, on either property or income, All the Ministers and some 600 guests have gone to Ararat to-day on the occasion of the opening of the railway. . Ris rumored that the Minister of Mines, who w also Minister of Education, intends relinquishing the former office, in order to devote himself to the latter.

Governor Musgrave, of South Australia, Ison - proceeds to Sydney to-day \ntnhis sister, en voute for British Columbia by the Californian mail

leffc San Francisco on the 30th of March.

Busier, the Richmond wife murderer, has been ordered to be kept in confinement during the Governors pleasure. Mr Hastings, the American Good Templar, has been lecturing, but is not creating much sensation.

The barest yiAds will probably show nearly 17 bushels to the wbro, and the .vintage is also haely to be good. The season was very dry until the last day or two.A fire occurred last night by which the ship yards of Henderson, Spraggon, David Gouk, and Armstrong, in Custom House street, were destroyed. The sheds, spars, ships’ knees, tools, Ac., were burned! and the loss is estimated as follows .'—Henderson, Spraggon, L 600; Gouk, L 300; Armstrong, L3OO. uke vessels - on the stocks were all saved.- The pitch and dry material burned with great .fieroenes 3, and the houses on the cliffs above were threatened. The engines, as usual, did not

<>▼«, but ften kept The yards being ,on the ? ame the whole “yg IV® thousands of spectators, and the hngmes coudugup through “i urod - . The fire originated in Tfe** 0118 »“» Tl,et<> “« "«»*»«> :*»j of LATEST CABLEGRAMS. mi , „ London, March 30. terd^y. Q land mailß delivered yes.The steamer Sfc. Osyth arrived, via the Cape 1 attot * Tlie revenue for the year amounts toseventrfour and a half millions.. > , * The Pope has exhorted 'the Prussian bishops Bismark!* 3 “ le * r res “ t^ncß - and vote against Belgium complains of the offensive language of the clerical Press. 8 hit * i • , Pans, Mtrdl 8L M. Dufaure s circular is particularly directed against Bupnapartism. • >•> JSS Bayß that the definitive thQ repubU ? “Wt.hf respected

mi rj - n Sydney, April 5* • * J? yd ? ey Cu P waa run on Thursday, Ist "“V® started. Imperial was Ist, RepheveTud, Lurlme 3rd.l ThTrice was won % * TS?jj PrettyWy.. Lurline-won the AH-aged Stakes on Friday, the 2nd, beating a moderate field. At this meeting Sir Hercules Kobmson won no less than seven, races, and got places ip five others. ; 8 M’Grath, boardinghouse-keeper, of Grenfell, and his wife, were committed for trial fot the murder ofa miner. $ * Bud P* shows thb revenue ruTß^nnn* 0 mu ““W the expenditure rio/o,UUO. There are no changes this session, but next session there will be a modified Stknp Act, and a tariff to be modified in a free trade direction, The Government intend, introducing an amended Land Bill, to limit the' selection to mmors above six years, and increase the area of section to 640 acres. Murphy, thehushand of the woman who was poisoned at Shoalhaven, has been committed tor trial for the murder of his wife and Mrs Boland.

Favorable acbounts are received frttrn the Palmer Saver. Plenty of gold is got, but in tne - sickly season a number ’ of deaths 'were reported. The blacks are very troqblfesome. Xnere opposition to Chinese immigratabn, ana there Is likely to be A conflict, as 2,000 Chinese are coming. ■ :

Adelaide, April 6. .. ~c Statist Boothby’s harvest statistics state 839,638 acres under wheat will ywid 9,862,693 bushels, gmag.an average of 11 ,Is 451bs. The surplus of breadstuffs available for exportation is 183,000 tons. L 6 000 ® Q “ ien * ,ur 8 fund Jms reached- over

*fymphe calls, here cn route to brrtHfla U *bout the Queen’s ■ The shiet Justice is Acting -Govemor tluring the Governor’s absence.

, , Hobabt Town, April 6. fever broken, out aboard U.M.S. Barracouta, she has proceeded to Sydney ih consequence of want cf hospital accommodation here. iFromour own Oorreßpondsni.) m, , , , , Auckland, April 9. The melancholy death of; Miss Nixon, a ypun£ lady aged| nineteen, from* excessive cmnorng', occurred in connection with the Hibernian ball at Onehunga. Some weeks ago her health was impaired by the influences of a ball-room and the night air, and she was prostrated in consequence. She attended the Hibernian Ball in the Onehunga hall on the £iaa alt., although she had not sufficiently recovered, and injudiolously danced through the hours of the night until nature gave way, and she rank completely exhausted, was conveyed to the residence of her parents in a. critical state, and received the best medical advice, but gradually sank, and died yesterday. highway robbery occurred on the Dhmemun road, which, from Paeroa to Puke, passes through high tea-tree scrub, and is a lonely place offering facilities for Conceal- , ment. Two men were seen loafing about there m a suspicious manner on Sunday night. On Monday night, shortlylafter dark, as a carter ““ed Snelgar was driving a dray, he was bailed up by a man who jumped eu the cart behind, and demanded l Snelgar should hand over his money or pay the penalty WitMus life. Instead of doing either the young 'oiirter hit the highwayman over the head with his whip, and offered such vigorous ■ resistance that the assailant decamped. On reaching Poke a party °* organised, and one named Dixon sent a-head as a decoy, artaed with a revolver. On reaching the spot where Snelgar 1 ' bad been Dixon was called’ upon to stand by a who rushed out upeii him.. Dixon retaliated by prematurely cocking his revolver mstead of parleying until the main body of the search party, which was a short distance beMnd, ome up. Although called upon to stand still at the peril of his Me the assailant madA tracks into the. scrub. Dixon attempted .to shoot him. but his revolver missed fire. The search party then came up and mattered themselvea about the scrub, but the search was unav®"in gt j The police are ou.the alert. The City West contest is likely to prove a very close one. Both parties are working hard and each is well organised. - « , . Abbow, April 12. ■ Newly ten ounces of gold were stolen on Saturday evening from Mrs Jenkin’S store at Mace town during her temporary absence. Three Chinese were in the store at the time. The police searched the Chinese huts, bat the thief is as yet undiscovered.

• WAaoDAm, Judge Harvey was to Have commenced his duties by sitting in the District Court "Here today, but to the surprise of the profession and suitors did not put in an appearance. Date in the day. he telegraphed to adjourn the Court till to-morrow. Witnesses from Shag Valley and Moeraki were in attendance,; - .. _ . Wellington, April 12. The mismanagement of the Hutt railway has culminated in the coaches recommencing to run regularly between the Hutt and the City in opposition to the train... This morning the coach was quite full, and the train nearly empty. The ooaoh did the distance in the shortest time. ’