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Evening Star, Issue 3884, 5 August 1875, Page 3

During a quarrel at the Caversham Hotel last night, Hobert Brevas, a seaman, stabbed in the arm James Butler, chief mate of the ship Star of China, (From our own Correspondents. ) Lawrence, August 5. At a meeting of the Municipal Council last night the question of the abolition of the Provinces came on for discussion. A motion was passed, unanimously adopting the principles of the Bill as submitted, and a hope expressed that it would be passed this session. The O’Connell centenary will be celebrated this evening in the Town Hall by a banquet and ball. There is every probability of a large attendance.

At the hearing of applications for deferred payment sections in Heriot Hundred a largo number of people were present, including men from all parts of the Province. The balloting will take place to-morrow at noon, and is likely to last several hours.

The customers of the Bank of New Zealand are loud in their complaints of the treatment received by them from the banks, and a number of them intend withdrawing their accounts, A contractor in a large way of business got a note, though his account was only overdrawn Ll7O and he had lodged in the bank securities to the amount of LI, 600. General indignation prevails at the steps taken by Mr Ferrier. j i , •> . Auckland, August 4. ine dead body ef a man, apparently about forty years of age, was found floating in the n’dnnl’i 0 0 ! 0 t0 th ® Onehunga pier, about four o *lock to day and sevctel persons collected Tf b p in f Mr Brewer > the Onehunga wife 4 f Cust T 3 > a very old man, who, finding no one volunteered to approach the corpse tucked up his trousers and waded to it. He then promised a reward of L 5 to anytme who would assist in getting it to land and five volunteers came forward. I'he body when brought to shore was in a highly ad vanced state of decomposition, and had apparently been in the water about a fortnight Deceased has not been identified, nor has any’one been missed from the township or the shipTho ‘ Star’ to-night says:—“ Some stir was caused in town this morning by a rum* that Sir J. Vogel had unexpectedly arrived. Po accustomed has everybody become to the startling moves of the great modern political prestidigitateur that the faet of his suddenly appearing on the scene at the present crisis of affairs commended itself to many as not at all Impossible or even improbable, and various conjwtuni were staged m. to tbf effect which hie

presence might have upon the coming struggle. At Shortland street corner this morning a knot of eager disputants, who evidently believed the report, worl.ed off the situation—in no time laying it down that Mr Stafford, seeing liis airy castle destroyed, would suddenly discovei a serious hindrance to his promised support ol the Government measures, and would hold out overtures to Sir G. Grey; and that Di Pollen bad already with all obsequiousness tendered bis resignation. .Other gessipperswould have it the sudden advent of then feared rather than beloved chieftain had thrown the dovecote of the pre.-ent Ministry into dire confusion, upsetting all their littleplans and making one too many in tho family party, and that accordingly Mr Stafford and Dr Pollen, feeling themselves sufficiently strong, had only received the important telegram with a cool remark to the effect that Sir Julius had far better have stayed at Home with the Agency-General, and not have come disturbing their little arrangements. It was even maintained that the reply to the telegram had contained this meaning very thinly veiled, and that on receipt of it the angfy statesman had at oneo opened communication with the leader of the Opposition, Other equally probable conclusions were arrived at, but just as the fate of the Colony had been traced in tin imagination of these philosophers through every conceivable combination and complication likely to bo caused, it was discoveredmuch to the disappointment of the newsmongers—that instead of the statesman it was only the schooner Sir Julius Yogel that had arrived ih the Manukau.”