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Evening Star, Issue 3874, 24 July 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

_Chbistchuhch, July 23. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court to day, Christopher Walker Worger, late steward of the Cantei’bury Club, was committed for Irial on two charges of embezzling money belonging to the Club. The total defalcations wore said to be over LI,OOO. July 21. A petition is being numerously signed here asking the Mayor to call a public meeting for tlm purpose of eliciting an opinion as to the policy of the General Government in proposing to abolish Provincial institutions throughout the Colony, and especially with regard to the forcing on of the abolition without affording the people of the Colony an opportunity of exercising their rights to vote upon so important an organic change in the Constitution of the Colony.

Auckland, July 24, Glover’s hotel and hall, Coiomnxdcl, were burned to the ground yesterday. Very little w„s saved, and the insma css are as follows; The hotel in the youth British Company for L3OO ; the hallj in the samej office for LSO, and in the National for LIOO, The stock was also insured in the National for Ll5O. The proprietor is the loser of everything. The fire originated in a bedroom, and the boarders narrowly escaped by getting down staii s. The following particulars of the murder at Rangariri have been received by telegraph from Mercer The Natives reported to the police here that a Maori woman had been murdered by her husband (named Ropoutu) three miles from Rangariri. Hex- body is said to be horribly mutilated, being nearly cut iu two by l, a tomahawk. The body was buried by the Maoris, and the murderer escaped to the backcountiy. He was pursued by Natives and some of the mounted police, who have starle 1 to investigate the matter.

Wellington, July 24. Tho_ following are additional particulars of the suicide mentioned in last night’s paper: Information was yesterday given to the police that a man was lying near the Roman Catholic Cemetery, shot through the head. On proceeding to the spot they found the person in question was a young man named Edward Walker Church, in the employ of Wilson and Richardson, drapers, Lambton Quay. He was not dead, but evidently severely wounded, and a jnstol was lying by his side. Dr Harding was in attendance, and had the sufferer removed to the bo-pi al where all possible aid was done but no hopes were entertained of his recovery, and at 2 a.m. ho died. The ball had entered near the jaw, and had glanced upwards, dividing one of the arteries in the head, but not grazing the skull. It appears that Church, who was a very steady young man, not being at bis usual post this morning, one of his employers sent up to his lodgings and learned that he had left foxbusiness as usual. The next thing heard of him wa.3 his discovery as above stated. He is ■about twenty years of age, and a compaxatively recent arrival, having come out by the Hindustan. No reason for the act has been ascertained.

New Plymouth, July 24. The cutter Hero has been picked up off Waitara, abandoned by her crow. The hull had sustained no damage, but the mast had snapped off and was in the water with the mainsail by its side. The sail had two reefs iu it, and it is supposed that the crew had been picked up by some vessel parsing. The ship’s papers show she was, on July 20, in lat. 39.28 south. (From our own Correspondents.)

Auckland, July 23. A fearful accident has occmrc-d at Gibbon’s Saw Mills, Manukau Heads. John Burns, employed on the tramway in getting goods from town, fell down with his arm across the rail, and the car with a log weighing four tons in it pass vd_ over the limb, fearfully xnuri Wring it, and leaving the arm hanging by the skin. It has amputated. «

Walter Williamson, the on'ginal discoverer of the Thames gold fields, nar/owly escaped death in the rough country'at Tail u.i. He got benighted, and the cold nearly killed him. He v.w found next morning very feeble, and unable to speak, but is now recovering.

Napier, July 24. The following reply has been signed by a number of the chiefs of Ngathahunurau to the petition by Ngatuhatui. sent down for signature, praying the Qmen !o appoint Sir Donald M‘Lean permanent Native Minister:--“We have rreeivtd your petition which you are about lo forward to England in ivfa-ence to Sir D. MT.ean, and in iv-spect to which you wish the chi -fs of the tribes of the South to sign theuvames. The tribes of the South do not agree with your petition. These arc all the words from Ngatirahunurau and its suburbs.” {From a Correspondent) Queenstown, July 24. At a meeting held hero last night for the purpose of taking preliminary steps to establish a newspaper under tho Joint Stock Companies Act, over 1.1,000 was subscribed in tho room. Tho requisite capital will be subscribed twice over, as the whole district is crying out for the want of a good newspaper.