BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3937, 7 October 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, October G. "'be following tenders were received for the incline con tract of the Welbngton and Masterton Railway : -Accepted : M‘Kitdy, Wellington, i 49,029. Declined: King, Street, and Lockie, Wellington, L 57,892 ; John and Co,. Auckland, L 58.651; Henderson, Wellington. ! 61,124 ; Pioudfoot, Dunedin, 1.60 000 ; Donager and Co,, Auckland, 1,09,463: Taw.-x* and Co,, Wellington, L 78,257. Auckland, October 6. It is stated Mr Brookfield, Crown Pio-eou-tor, has received the appointment of Resident Magistrate, Napier, October 0. A man named Ryan has been apprehended on a charge of uttering a forged cheque for L4l, signed Douglas and Go, He presented it for payment of board and lodging, and the landlord ga- eh m credit for the amount, and let him have LI on account, ibe cheque proved to be worthless. No such firm as Douglas and < 'o. was known, Hynn could not bo found out. The police yesterday arrested him at Colne. The charge of forgery could not be sustained, so prisoner will be dealt with summarily for obtaining LI on false pretences. Elii ff, October 7. The s.s Alhambra arrived from Melbourne at 11.43 this morning. 8-ho left Me bourne at 2 15 p m. on the 2nd, and brings thirty-eight saloon and thirty steerage passengers and MOO tons of cargo for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 4p m. to-day. Passengers for Dunedin ; Miss Maloney, Messrs Hesketh, lugs, Lucas. F. Smith, B. Smith, Monteith, Hay, Franklin, Montague, Jones, 1 Grosser, and Ibulclilfe ; fourteen in the steerage, and 184 tons of cargo. ’ {From our own Correspondent.) Arrow, October 7. The Phcenix tiihutors crushing was preceding satisfactorily when the flaming of the water race, which is ten years old, gave way and stopped further crushing for the present. The amalgam appears rich.