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Evening Star, Issue 3826, 29 May 1875, Page 3

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Wellington, May 28. Hia Honor Mr Justice Johnston was entertained at dinner last night by the members of the Club. There was a good muster. The members of the Choral Society will present an address to Mr Justice Johnston, at the Courthouse, to-morrow.

~ ... « ... Auckland, May2B. Mr W. G. Maitland, of Otago, the lessee of a run of 36,000 acres at Poverty Bay from the Natives, intends to stock it and live there. Chbistchuboh, May 29. Mr Harper has given notice of motion in the Provincial Council, “ that it is desirable that resolutions should be considered during the present session with regard to the tenure of pasturage leases, which expire in 1880.” The Lyttleton Times ’ condemns it as undesirable to discuss such a grave question at the close of a session in which there has been a rocent change of Government, and because the government had not yet expressed any opinion on the matter. Encouraged by the premiums offered by the Acclimatisation Society, people are destroying nawks wholesale. Over 600 nave been shot in three weeks. In the Provincial Council last night a motion fer sending a Provincial Immigration Agent Home, was withdrawn at the request of the Provincial Secretary, who said the Government were of opinion that immigration, as now earned on by the General Government was satisfactory. Mrs Bates took a benefit at the theatre last night, and there was a crowded house. Mr Bates being unwell, Mr Hoskins, who called here on his way to Wellington, took Shylock for him m the “Merchant of Venice,” at a moment’s notice. C From our own Correspondent. ) Lawbenoe, May 29. ■lhe Tuapeka Times’ this morning says a splendid seam of coal, equal to the Bruce Comsany5 any s, has been discovered near Waitahuna. he deposit is supposed to be inexhaustible, as a similar formation extends over a large tract of country. Three candidates advertise their intention to contest the mayoralty, viz., Messrs Hay (at present in office), Fraer, and Walker. ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS. _ . Auckland, May 28. Ihe meeting between the Emperor of Austria and the King of Laly was of the most cordial character. A London paper attributes the great success of Moody and Sankey’s services to Sankey’s singing. , At Utah an insane man, believing himself to be Christ, killed his wife and child, and ultimately had to be shot by the sheriff to prevent further crime. Congress has passed a law that all prisoners sentenced to over six months’ imprisonment, on liberation, be furnished with a plain suit and a few dollars to start them in an honest way again. An explosion of gunpowder at a cartridge an 2: acto ry . San Francisco killed four employes. At the inquest one man deposed that he was accustomed to smoke while he filled the cartridge. A wrestling match between Miller, an Australian, and Vandershen, an American, resulted in favor of the Australian. The steamer Venture, with 200 passengers, ran on a rock during a fog, but all succeeded in getting safely ashore.