SECOND EDITION. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3799, 28 April 1875, Page 3

SECOND EDITION. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, April 27. The Hon. Dr Pollen goes South on Thursday, to take the place of the Hon. Mr Richardson, who will return to Wellington. Dr Pollen will then accompany the Governor in his visits South.

It is understood that Parliament will positively meet in July. All the new Bills to be introduced are in a. very forward state, so that no delay whatever is likely to be occasioned through Mr Vogel’s absence. In reference to an article in the ‘Southern Cross ’ of this morning, re the four million loan, the real facts of the case are understood to be as follows :—The loan was placed in the market at ninety-three, but the expenses incidental to negotiation and floating will amount to about 2 per cent., leaving the net amount at which the loan has been floated at niney-one, or equal to a 5 per cent loan. About forty gentlemen assembled on Friday night at the invitation of Mr Millar, F.S.A., at the Rutland Hotel, Wanganui, having been invited to a farewell dinner. Electioneering and other engagements prevented others, unavoidably, from attending who would otherwise have been guests. Mr Mi’lar contemplates organising another reunion shortly, which shall partake of a more public character, and to which townspeople to the number of 400 will be invited, and at which the late Borough Engineer will take a final farewell of the burgesses, A pril 28. All the single zirls per the Edwin Fox readily found employment, and nearly all the married couples. The remainder will be at once sent up to Manawatu. Yesterday, while Mrs Galbraith was visiting two imbecile children of hers at the asylum, one of them, unobserved, seized a bottle of syrup of chloral and drank nearly the whole of it and died soon after, though a doctor was called in. . TIMARU, April 27. A curious church squabble is going on. The Rev. George Foster, an incumbent for fourteen years, is now resident in the parish, and the congregation is trying to get rid of him. He refuses to resign. The Bishop, who has been appealed to, urges his resignation, and threatens to cancel his license. The incumbent still refuses, and it is expected that the parishioners will withhold his stipend. This is the first case of the kind in the Colony. A promising South Canterbury Football Club has been formed, and Mr Hammersley, four years captain of the All-England Club, has been elected captain. Fifty members have joined, including many public school men and several well known English players. Nelson, April 28. A new daily paper is to be started here shortly with the old ‘Examiner’ type by Messrs Hawkins and Hill, of the West Coast. Auckland, April 27. oir George Amey’s house narrowly escaped destruction by fire. Three outhouses connected with it were destroyed. The exertions of neighbours saved the main building. The skeleton of a man has been found at the Ibree Kings, near Auckland, The flesh evidently has been, eaten by pigs. The man was apparently a homeless old vagrant, who laid ?9 wn .. to pie, hut the remains were beyond identification, the death being months ago, (From our own Correspondents.) xr xt- t. i t Auckland, April 27. Mr JNichol has received orders from Mr Godeffroi to build a vessel of 125 tons for the Samoa trade, under the rules of the Germanic Lloyds. She will be the first vessel built under that scheme and classification in Auckland. Affairs connected with the Government Armed Native Corps at the Waikato seem in a very bad state -appropriatioa of stores is

pla'nly charged, and the burning of stables, &c., is regarded as s ous. A corres|!onfleut writes to the ‘ -t i,' .~uiting unequivocally t-li i' Ik- saw a lie ten ur. lying drunk in the stables recently I urn d. A searching investigation is imperative. f l he crushing at Ohineinnri of one ton of stuff yielded two ounces. bir George Grey is paying an official visit to Ohinemuri. The field has been greatly deserted for Taiiua, and the buildings in course of erection have been stopped, Wellington, April 27 The new baths are being pushed on rapidly, but it is thought that the site is badly chosen, as the sewer empties close by. The balance sheet of the Public Hall Company has been issued. The speculation looks healthy. The directors in their report state that they intend holding on to their spare land adjoining the theatre without building upon it, as they expect it to lapidly increase in value.