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Evening Star, Issue 3839, 14 June 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

' Christchurch, June 14. ' In the cricketing averages just published C. C. Corfe heads the list of batsmen with an average of 35,3 for seven first-class matches, the next highest being J. Fowler with an average of 22.9 for ten matches. T. S. Sweete heads the list of bowlers with an average of 6.31 runs per wicket in seventeeh matches. Fuller coming next with 8.21 runs per wicket in fifteen matches.

Efforts are being made to establish a Press Club here similar to that in Dunedin.

It is supposed that the bodies and pieces of wreck found near Long Beach on the Ninetymile Beach are from the missing vessel Success, of Auckland, which had Co run out of Timaru roadstead during) the gale on Saturday, June 5.

. It is reported that a Mr Liddle has found a silver mine in the ranges near Westport. The Jockey Club have decided that no twoyear old shall run in any handicap in which horses of other ages are engaged, nor shall any two-year old race be for a longer distance than six furlongs. The Club also instructed their secretary to endeavor to arrange with the Dunedin Jockey Club a programme for !>he Afferent race meetings during the season, in order tdjavoid clashing. The funeral of the late Captain Charlesworth yesterday was stopped by the police on the ground that an inquest must be held, as death had resulted from an accident. The deceased’s friends were gretly aggrieved, as Dr Frankeish had given 'a certificate that death was caused by erisypalis.

Auckland, June 14, The Macgregor has arrived after a protracted passage of eight and a-half days. She experienced three days’ very severe gale?. On the 11th insL she had a heavy gale, with rain, lightning, and a tremendous sea. The engines were going dead slow when she shipped a heavy sea, which washed the sheep-pens and hen.coops overboard, but did no other damage. ’

Wellington, June 14. ’The ketch William and Mary foundeired between' Wellington and Foxton during the late gale, and four of her crew perished. Captain Renner of the Hannah Barrett, picked tip the master of the ketch, who was found floating oh a piece of timber. (From'our own Correspondent.) . . Riverton, June 14. A miner named Charles Drake got his neck broken by a fall of earth while working in Wilson and Meldrum’s claim at Round Hill at four o’clock this morning. He was twentytwo years of age, and was unmarried. Auckland, June 12. A great row of a novel character occurred in Queen street to-day. A virago recently from gaol succumbed to her old weakness, a lot of glass, attacked the barman at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, and a fight for ten minutes followed before a policeman arrived. She then attacked the policeman, and two guardians of the peace were required to drag her to the station-house.

330 tons of Wallsend coal were auctioned today, and realised 37s per ton. The Coroner’s jury on Sextie, the commission agent, brought in a verdict that his death was caused by poison, “ but by whom administered there is no evidence to show.” The object of the latter clause was evidently to avoid the consequences of a verdiqt of felo de se, as the evidence clearly showed that the poison must have been^ taken by Sextie while in a sound state of mind. The Coroner objected to the verdict as casting suspicion on others ; but the jury insisted that they desired it to be taken purely as an open verdict.