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Evening Star, Issue 3804, 4 May 1875, Page 3

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Wellington, May 3. Joseph Carter, very many years a tidewaiter in Her Majesty’s Customs, died suddenly in the cabin of the vessel Sunbeam this afternoon, while checking over the day’s Avork. He laid his head on tho cabin table, and expired AVithout a movement.

t t n-o- Nelson, May 4, Judge Gillies opened the Supreme Court foday. Inere wore six cases on the calendar. The Grand Jury found no bill in tho case of Jones, committed for manslaughter in ovnnection with the lecent accident on the Beach road. James Thomas Smith, over seventy years old, pleaded guilty tj-day to an indecent assault upon his grand-daughter, seven years of age, and was sentenced to five yean.’ imprison ment.

„■» ILytxelton, 3lay 3. ihe T intern Abbey was towed up by the Ijuna to day, She is 114 days from Litmdbn, and brings 309 immigrants. On the voyage, fbere woi 6 nineteen deaths and six births. Uf the birds for the Socjety, about pOQ mft of tjioTjOOO have arrived aliVe. The hirds comprise j>ai tridgos, blackbirds, thrushes, hamti)Cn<, redndcp, golafindhcß, linnets, starting, and hWgfe sp&rdvrti.

TurABU, May 3. A painful report is currrnl th.it Mr Hunt, the headmaster of the set on’, win) was drowned in the Ranirilnta in A pril I.sl with bis wife and mother-in-law. bail .un-ther wife still living, in New .South Wales Avho now claims the estate for herself and son. The ) dice at Christchurch and Tirn o u hj ive been communicated with. The circumstances of the drowning were mysterious, and never satisfactorily explained. Ti;o evidence of the ferryman pointed to suicide ou the part of Hunt, but was not believed at the tim -\ It is now thought more probable, considering subsequent revelations. Seventy applications were received for the head mastership o: the school, and they will be cons.dered by the Committee to-night.

(From our own Correspondents)

< Balclutha, May 4. The Invercargill coach was stuck up at the Waipahee Elver, tho passengers having to ride tho coach horses into Clinton, arriving there at 10.30 last night. All the creeks are flooded. Queenstown, May 4. Most persons here declare that, Mr Beetham went out of ids way to insult Mr Manders, who was not under the influence of liquor during the re-hearing of Manders v. Powell, but was wearied from struggles and night-Avatchings. A memorial in reference to the c.iso is being signed. The claims at Arthur’s Point Terrace are likely to amalgamate.