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Auckland, July 20. The Star of the South has arrived from Fiji. The Fiji ‘Times’ expresses a belief that the new Governor has been so favorably impi essed with Levuka as to retain the capital there. The Governor is making a trip to the various parts of the group and is cordially received. A petition to the Assembly from the publicans is in circulation praying L r the opening of hotels from one to three and seven to ten o’clock on Sundays.
The Union Sash and Door Company has de* dared a dividend of twenty per cent. A petition is being prepared in favor of the abolition of the Native right to vole at the election of European representatives.
C'hristcuukch, July 20, At the Supremo Court to-day, in the case of Bain v. Walker, in which LS.(K)O was claimed for slander, the verdict was tor the defendant. The Christchurch Metropolitan Races are fixed for November Bth, 10th, and 12th. July 21. Yesterday Mr W. Dymock, who has resigned the management of the Bank of Australasia here to take the management of the National Bank at Dunedin, was presented with a costly gold watch and chain, as a mark of esteem, by the constituents of the former bank. The spawning season at tbe Acclimatisation Gardens has commenced. One thousand t* out ova have already lean obtained for artificial hatching, and the curator expects to got more than double the number of ova that was obtained last year. About 2,000 trout were hatched out last yerr. A large number of trout of an immense size have been caught in the Avon ; s ;me weighed over islb each. In the Supreme Court, this morning, an action fur damages (1.5,000) for libel was commenced. The plaintiff is Joseph Newton, an importer of seeds and agricultural implements, and defendant is seedsman and nui sen man, formerly Mayor of Christchurch. The alleged libel is based on a statement said to have been mado by Wilson that Newton would be in (he Bankruptcy Court within three months. {From our own Correspondent.) Auckland, July 20. A complaint has been mado of the police idusing prisoners, a constable having struck a man he was arrestingjon a charge of drunkenness violently upon the head with his baton. The evidence showed the man was not drunk. The Press called attention to the fact that the policeman was punished by the inspector, but other charges of brutality to prisoners are made against members of the force. A Raglan correspondent states that a number of the leading friendly Natives have joined the King in cultivation at Kawhip, He asserts that the King Maori* s have consistently declared they will only make peace on condition the restoration of the Waikato.
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Evening Star, Issue 3871, 21 July 1875, Page 3
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