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Evening Star, Issue 3815, 17 May 1875, Page 3

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Auckland, May 15. Thomas Bemington and George Lane, two seamen on the American whaler Tamerlane, at Russell, attempted to swim ashore, to desert. Lane sank and was drowned within a hundred yards of the beach. Bemington was subsequently found sitting on a rock, in an exhausted state. The Co-operative Meat Supply Company has brought down the price of meat twenty per cont. ' Nelson, May 17. The lighthouse-keeper at Farewell Spit reSrts the finding the pocket-book of Captain idcliffe, of the schooner Melbourne, close to where one of the bodies lay, from which he concludes that one of the bodies found was the captain’s. Pieces of the wreck are still coming ashore there. Christchurch, May 17. Only three candidates have been examined for the University scholarships. Efforts are being made to establish a*Yeteran Rifle Corps here. The annual session of the Presbyterian Synod opens to-morrow. A man named Joseph Betts, 55 years old, was found drowned in the river Avon in the centre of the city yesterday. Wellington, May 17. Mr Charles Bonnythorn Borlase, Provincial Solicitor, and for several years M.H.R. for the city, died on Saturday evening at his residence. (From our own Correspondents.) X Napier, May 15. For the last week the town has been crowded with Natives. Sir Donald M'Leau remains at his sheep station. His feast to the Natives at Hastings, involving a railway excursion, was a great sue. s, many Maoris never before having seen j, locomotive engine.