BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3814, 15 May 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

mu r* : ~ EtbFP, May 15. The a s Omccr, Captain Cakler, left Melbourne at 2.3p Am, qn : the; Bth. On the 13th ® x P e . n^ Ge ,h,a gale from the N. and JN.hi., and had to heave-to. on account of thelajge.number of stock on board. She arrived at at 8 a.m, on the 15th, saloon and3o steerage passengers; also 9/ horses, 20-eheep, ard 260 tons cargo for all ports. She Sails for Dunedin at 4 pin o-day, * -• WaiLiNOBON, May 14. Ibe rbnowing tenders were received at the ini " I ° r ks Office for the completion of the Glenore contract of the Tokomairiro to Lawrence Kailway ;-Accepted: A. J. Smyth and Dunedin, L 13.513. Declined: James Matheson Brothers, L 15,890; William Strachan, balance of amount of original contract. , r . _ _ , Invercargill, May 15. ~ 4vr of Hokonui, in a letter in the News, says the whole tenor of the article J. Bruce Herald ’of the 30th April, associating his name with the school days and eaily history of Unger Tichbome, is false, being entirely the Production of some idler scribbler to noax the press. A meeting has been held at Woodland’s to organise opposition to Sir Dillon Bell at the next election, for the Assembly. —= Christchurch, May 15. ine amount received for annual pasture rents is L 43.186, e Thompsone, one of the men injured by the fall of timber at the Dunsaudel Railway- Sta. ttp», died yesterday. {Front out own Correspondents .) B»mu m ■ • Auckland, May 14. f Treasurer m his budget made a clean breast of the impecunious state of the Province, ♦oe mam source of revenue is the publicans’ ;nepnnes. The estimates include no public wmks of consequence, gaols and other departttetats absorbing all the revenue. Education is go be earned on by such funds as can be raised from a rate and the bank overdraft. Something will have to be done next session of Parliament, Another instance of the absurd railway management is giveji. A train would not wait tve mmutes for the Southern mails by the •taranakj, some passengers caught tbe tram, the mails were kept till next traintwo houra later—causing a detention of the mail steamer m Auckland for that time. A thousand people went on the wharf to see the mail steamer away to-day on account of the many old colonists aboard, -_ T .. , Napier, MayJlS. Negotiations for the purchase of the Upper Vairoa block stretching to Waikaremoana « poverty Bay, and consisting of 240,000 acres 'have been concluded by the Genera! Government. The Natives have been paid the first instalment and have signed the deed of sale.