BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3796, 24 April 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, April 23. An Order in Council provides that all expenditure on goldfields in the Province of Auckland shall be regulated by Acts passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council.

The Superintendent of Otago has notified in the ‘ Gazette ’ that the whole of Dog Island, off Bluff Harbor, is reserved from sale as a site for a lighthouse, and al»o that the islands in Dusky Sounds, including Resolution Island, Breaksea Island, Gilbert Isles, Entry Island, Curlew Island, Heron Island, Indian, Island. Pigeon Island, Parrot Island, and Anchor Island, have been reserved as a station to be Used for the restraint and safe keeping. of male offenders under sentence of penal servitude.

The total value of gold exported from New Zealand up the 3lat of March, 1875, is L 22,968,193, and for the.last quarter 97,681 ounces, value 1.391,177, Otago is the highest, . yielding L 134.835 ; Nelson, L 100.471 ; West ' land, L 79.114; Auckland, 173,991 ; Marl , .borough,, L 27,769. . ,-• It is notified in the ‘ Gazette,’ that the limits of the Port of Dunedin, shall extend'to, and include, all the watefs comihotrlv known as the harbor of Otago, and all the waters comprised within a radius of three miles seaward from Taiaroa Head.

The Hon. Dr Pollen is gazetted President of the Executive Council of New Zealand. April 24. Extensive alterations are taking place in the House of Representatives. It is understood that Mr Vogel will leave London for New Zealand in time to join the mail steamerat Brindisi on the 14th of May. That mail will be due at Wellington on the 9th of July. At lotest dates matters were progressing satisfactorily for a new ’Frisco mail contract, also for a submarine cable to connect New Zealand with New South Wales, possibly also with Fiji. Auckland, April 23. Judge Gillies to-day discharged with cpsts the rule nisi obtained against Mr Meredith, Clerk of the Court at Carlisle, arising out of the suit Espagne v. TwohilL The affidavits and evidence adduced were in a very muddled condition, and their state was commented on by the Judge. Charles King, A.C., of Tauranga, was brought up on a writ of habeas corpus at the Supreme Court to-day, and discharged on the ground of illegal imprisonment. He was confined in gaol three months, and degraded from the rank of sergeant, by a Board of Inquiry at Tauranga, for palling his officer a “ skunk.” King intends to enter an action for false imprisonment. April 24. Two stacks of hay, valued at Ll6O and uninsured, belonging to Bovey, a farmer at Mangere, were destroyed yesterday by fire. The fire is doubtless another case of incendiarm. They have become alarmingly frequent of late. The Hon. Mr Reynolds went on a cruise in the Southern Cross yesterday, the vessel being worked by the boys. He expressed great satisfaction with th§ state of discipline exhibited. Gbahamstown, April 23. The crushing for the Ohinemuri prospectors indicates a probable yield of lioz to 2oz to the ton. Sir George Grey arrived this afternoon, for a stay of eight or ten days. Typhoid fever is following closely on the heels of measles. Mumps and similar complaints are prevalents, and the death-rate continues high. The water supply has almost run out. Nelson, .April 23. In the Interprovincial Cricket Match, Nelson v. Westland, Nelson won the toss, and sent Westland to the wickets. The Westland men made a total of 77 in their first innings. The Nelson men then went in and scored 77 also. The match will be res med to-morrow if fine ; but the weather looks threatening. t Christchurch, April 23. The subject of establishing a city corn exchange is being revived. Invercargill, April 24, Mr Millar, rector of the Grammar School here, died this morning. He had been suffering from chronic bronchitis, and been confined to his house for some weeks past. [From our own correspondents.) .. Oamaru, April 23. The election for a member for Moeraki in the Provincial Council, in the room of Mr Teschemaker, resigned, took place to-day with the following results Moody, 78; Mupoott, 56: Hutcheson, 53; Falconer, 9,