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Chrjstohurch, July 10. The mid-winter Agricultural Show yesterday was not a success, the farmers displaying great apathy both in contributing exhibits and in attendance. It is a great question whether another show of the kind will be held here. An amateur dramatic performance was held last night in aid of the widows' and orphans' fund of the Ancient Order of Foresters. It was a great success, and the theatre was crowded in all parts. Mr W. Dvmock, late manager of the Bank of Australasia, who has resigned in order to take the position of manager of the National Bank, Dunedin, was entertained at dinner by a large number of friends at the Canterbury Club last night.
Wellington, July 15. A statement that the Phcebe returns to Dunedin under a charter, is incorrect. By a private arrangement of the company, the Hawea and the Phcebe will both be avuilable for members of the Assembly.
m , Auckland, July 15. The Superintendent has applied to th« Supreme Court for an injunction against Jameß Mackay, G. O'Halloran, John Uuilding, and the former Native owners of the Tairua block, r 'straining them from obtaining a grant from the General Government of 1,000 acres of land at Taiiua on a deed sale to the Government. The Natives had a right to select within six months a reserve of 1,000 acre?. This selection was not made within the prescribed time, but information has been received by tho Superintendent that it was their intention to apply under that clause for the only piece of Hat land suitable for a township within the goldfieida boundaries, in furtherance of the arrangement between land speculators and the Natives. The injunction was applied for to prevent such a grant being made.
H.M.S.S. Dido, which left heie for Wellington, via Tauranga, on the 3rd has not eince been heard of. She did not call at Tauranga.
™ J,,l y l<; - ine report thr.t the Government have entered into a contract with the British Admiralty for the s»a!e of the Northern forests to supply the Admiralty with timber, is incorrect, but Mr Thomas Russell has taken a contract piivately with the Adinir.lty to supply two and a-half million fei-t of spars ami baulk timber yearly to the Admiralty, and lias sublet tho contract to Mr Davgaville, owner of large bushes in Kaipara.
Gheymouth, July 15. No other signs of wreckage have been discovered. The bow of the Tararua's boat was much damaged, as though forcibly torn from the davits. Much anxiety about the Tararua is felt here.
Invercargill, July IG. Mr Richard Rocke, chemist, of Itiverton, died somewhat suddenly at the Clarendon Hotel, Inverca'gill, last night. Mr George Webster, the well-known squatter amiM.H.R, for the Wallace district, died last
night. He had been confined to his b?d since Monday last, the cause of death being inflammation of the membrane of the brain.
(From our own Correaporukufs.)
AuciaAN*' 4 , J:i!.V I '>. A. touching instance of conjugal l.vu and affection oecnned at 1 >st week. A chief of Rotorua —Pcrcera Te Piiku.aua - has been vibiting mme dist.mt re! .iii/ms on tho West Coast for the last two vow.?, m-d tlu-ro fell in love with a woman of tlmL part r-t tlucountry, and, without consulting Lis bolterhalf, added her to his domestic: cfctoi'lHiujeuL On the arrival of the chitf and hie u-jjejiaiiy at. Parek&iaugt, within a few miles; of hi-;' old homo, Ar.i, his first wife, wa« ;t.cu .f. > Icivo the hoiuo in the direction of the forest. Shortly afterwards piercing shrieks thiilled through the village, and brought everyone to the scene. Poor Ani, overwhelmed with grief or slnme at the approaching meeting with her old friends as a second and perhaps despised companion of the chief, had literally "run up" a tree, and in the hope of ending her sorrows with life threw herself from the highest branches. She wa* taken up_ insensible and bleeding, but alive, and was carried on a litter of boughs to Ohinemutu by a body of the Peteras tribe. She is expected to recover from the injuries received. Whales are reported t© be very plentiful off the Northern coast, and expeditions have been sent out from the Bay of Islands to capture them, but without s\iccess.
ingngnc ramson, a iMorwegian immigrant, was sent to gaol for eight months to day for hammering his wife’s head with a stone. Prosecutrix deposed that she parted from her husband in Norway, and came out to New Zealand. He followed her, and on the occasion complained of he caught her by the hair, and struck her three times on the head with a stone till she was insensible.
A charge of incendiarism against the Conlcv family is withdrawn, and a fresh information laid against Mrs Couley, who i> remanded for a week. Although combustible material, saturated with turpentine and ignited, was found in various pari:* of the house, no direct testimony has disclosed who put it there. There is a difficulty in getting convictions against persons acoused of arson, even where the evidence is very direct, and this discourages the police in taking action on any case. Conley's house was not worth more than LIOO, and was insured for L2OO. This is condemned as a direct incentive to crime. The 'Star' attacks the 'New Zealand Times' for its " cool impudence "in suggesting that Wellington should be the first port of call of the new mail service. It had thought the question of port settled when the Paciiic seivice on the other side shifted from Panama to San Francisco. It says the 'Times,'in speaking of the speedy distribution of mails, makes no allowance for the time lost in arrival at Wellington instead of at Auckland. RIVERTOX, TuK- I~>. Mr T. Daniel, M.P.C., addressed a large meeting of his constituents last night. He reviewed the proceedings of the past at some length, and concluded by statin;.: that be was not in favor cf abolition of the Provinces until the country had been appeale;' <u. A vote of confidence in him as representative was cmiod unanimously. ConsideraHe damage ha; been done I.civ by high winds. Numbers of chimneys v-\-ix~ Uo>v'n down, and trees uprooted nt the Sp.ir One treo fell on the top of a hut, crushing it in. Five persons who were inside initv.i;:.ilnu;.;ly escaped unhurt.
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Evening Star, Issue 3867, 16 July 1875, Page 3
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