BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3934, 4 October 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

WELLINGTON, < ictober 2. Tho amount of Customs collected nt the port of Wellington during tho month of September was L 18.096. The same month last year the amount was L 16.142. Gt.ahamstuwn. October 2. At a meeting of the Bright Smile creditors t»-day to consider a proposition that the Bank take possession of tr.e pioperty and proceed to make th.j workings secure, leaving tho question of resuming work open until equitable terms are agreed upon by the adjoining claims for drainage contributions, the proposition was accept d. Auckland, October 2. Conyers, second officer <>l the ship City of Auckland, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, with haul irbor, for broaching cargo during the voyage. Bertrand, a seaman, was sentenced to three months’; Kerrish, a passenger, t> seven day-.’, ripier and Dick, passengers. were discharg" d ; and IVrcival, a boy. got forty eight hour.!’. The evidence showed the second officer to be prime mover: on this account the othir sentences were light The Bench severely condemned the heiuouaness of the mate’s offence, knowing the danger incurred in creep ng ovei tw-.-nty five tons of gunpowder with raked lig! ts. The Govern men;- his giamed the petition for the relv.*Bo of Legget, he late clerk of the Provincial Council, convicted of embezzlement. He is how at liberty. A further gold discovery is reported in a creek neur V.'lmng.irei. A mysterious supposed case of drowning occurred at Onehunga. A splash was heard from the whaif, and a ny of “Save me! Save me!” A seaman from tho Ladybbd jumped overboard ami »w.m about, but could see no one. The tide was so strong that he was nearly carried away, but a rope was thrown

-tv triur aiul n* pva some® ox Urw cry, ’came .c • c -v '.o nave been a hoax, but if a®, it naarly resulted in* the drowning of a seaman. It Is probable that the tid® earned the body out, October 4. William Kirby, coal merchant, has been arrested on a eharge of assault with intent on Mrs Bain, wife of one of his customers. Christchurch. October 4. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened this morning. There are thirteen prisjner> and twenty-four cases, including sheap stealing, larceny, forgery, b rse-steaiiug, larceny of letters from a post office, and embezzlement.