BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3886, 7 August 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, August 6. Mr William Johnston is gazetted Crown Prosecutor for the Otago Goldfields District; and the Mayors of Naseby, Milton, Lawrence, Cromwell, Port Chalmers. Clyde, Alexandra, and West Hawkesbury, Justices of the Peace.

The * Gazette’ contains the following notifications .-—The appointment of Messrs Mantell, Gisborne, Levin, and M'lntyre as Commissioners to make arrangements to secure the representation of New Zealand at the Philadelphia Exhibition; Notices from the Colonial Secretary at Levuka, that lici'S on land, in Fiji may be held by persons residing in New Zealand ; and Returns showing the results of the University Examinations.

A special telegram from London, dated July 28, states that Mr William Fox was entertained at a breakfast at the Westminster Palace Hotel by the United Kingdom Alliance. Sir Wilfred Lawson (the president), supported by Cardinal Manning, Lord .Stanley, Mr M‘Arthur, M.P., Mr Sullivan, M.P., and other gentlemen were present. The exPrcmier of New Zealand was congratulated cu the carrying of the Pei miss ive Bill.

„. ... .. Grahambtow, August 6. Notwithstanding a thorough purging of the new electoral roll for the Thames, it contains 3,713 votes.

rm- r> , . ' IMARU, August 6, The Board of Works yesterday resolved unammousty to petition the Government to alter the position of the railway in the town, vested interests being preserved. The railway where it is at present situated will destroy the trade of the port. The Board also passed a resolution that iimaru and Gladstone should have an additional member, or re-distribution of representation. The population is now over 10,000, and is rapidly increasing.

Auckland, August 6, Four deaths from typhoid fever in the city were registered last month. The Intercolonial < 'ticketing Committee today unanimouslj resolved that the proposal of tho Australian team could not be entertained.

Christchurch, August 7. At a meeting of electors of the Selwyn district last night, a regulation was moved, asking

Mr Reeves, member in the Assembly for the district, to strenuously oppose the passing of the Abolition Bill until after the next general election, to w'hich an amendment was moved approving of the Abolition Bill. The amendment was negatived by 15 to 11, and the resolution was then curded. The Lincoln Road Board has pa»sed a resolution also asking that the question of the abolition of Provinces be deferred until after the general election. {From our own Correspondents ) Auckland, August 6. • Anxiety is widely felt here for news of the topsail schooner Dauntless, belongingto MrConroy, of this city. She left Moeraki about July 8, for Wellington, with a cargo of breadstuffs, and no tidings have since been received. The Dauntless is-a fine weatherly vessel of about eighty tons register, was built by Messrs Nicool and Son, of the North Shore, and was a remarkably fast sailer. Captain Poul- - was in command.

Riverton, August 7. A ploughing match was held yesterday in Mr Stewart’s paddock, Gumnaie’s Bush, under the auspices of the Western District Farmers’ Club, and was the most successful ever held in Southland. The attendance was numerous, and the weather beautiful. Over thirty ploughs were on the ground, including two or three furrows. At the dinner, held in Saunders’s barn in the evening, about 150 persons sat down, and the toasts being quickly disposed of, dancing was commenced and kept up till tight this morning. Everything went off very satisfactorily.