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Evening Star, Issue 3789, 16 April 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Hokitika, April 15. The long-pending tramway claims against the Provincial Government have been decided by the Provincial Council recommending the General Assembly to grunt 800 acres of land per mile to the companies. Only a bare quorum was present. A. second resolution, adding that the land shall be selected in such distances as shall be determined on by the Provincial Council was carried by ten to four. The Council is expected to close to day.

Auckland, April 16. The Cyphrenes has arrived. She left Sydney on the 10th, and proceeds to San Francisco this evening.

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

London, April?. Germany has sent a note to Belgium suggesting that the Government should make some alterations in its laws, in order to repress the attack of the Ultr imontanea. It is intimated that States wishing to preserve the advantage of neutra'ity should avoid anything tending to affect it. Belgium replied that the existing laws are sufficient.

The Australian Direct Steam Navigation Company has collapsed, and a liquidation petition has b ■on presented.

The steam hip Victoria, announced to leave on the 27th February last, has been detained up to the present time, and the disappointed passengers hj -.vp appealed to the Lord Mayor for redress.

Mr James Herman Ricci is appointed At-torney-General for Fiji. Arrived! Fermlale, from Auckland, on November H, an 1 Christian M’Ausland, from Port Chalmers, on December 14.

AUSTRALIAN.

. „ . „ Sydney A fare at Young destroyed nine business promises. The losses am»unt to L 20,000. Fifteen thousand visitors attended the exhibition yesterday. Melbourne. The quarterly revenue returns amount to rnnn being a decrease on the quarter of L9,?00, and on the year of L 65,000. ■ There is a great falling elf in the customs, excise, and territorial revenue* Tho revenue for the year amounts to L 3,955,800. The Minister of Education, in opening a State School at Brighton, said an arrangement had been made with a literary man to write a history of Australia, 1 The ‘Bendigo Advertiser’ states that it has been informed that Mr 6. E. Jones was crashed to death in a railway carriage in America. The revenue for nine months shows L 217.000 below the estimates. The Government of Dasmania have agreed to join in the erection and maintenance of a lighthouse on King’s Island. Rain is badly wanted in the country. Sheep are suffering from lack of it. Martell’s old dark brandy sold at 7a 4M. New Zealand 4s ad. Large finds or gold at Oroswlok have caused some excitement. The March land sales were 5,161 acres, averaging LI 4s 3d per acre. . ', , . Brisbane. A woman bled to death last night. When fetching beer she slipped in tlje and falllnß on a |«g aq: fieFneok, Ihe nett increase of revenue for the past quarter is nearly 15,000. The expenditure exceeds the revenue by L 45,000, The Leichardb, en route from Cooktown. brings nearly 1,00. ozs of gold. The blacks cruelly murdered Conn, a settler, forty miles from Cardwell, and carried his wife off to the bush, Two steam winches and a quantity of effects, marked with tho names of passengers, have been recovered from the wreck of the Gothenburg.