BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3951, 23 October 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, October 22. The draft terms of agreement for the consti action of street tramways have been a r ranged between tho Committee of the City Council and Messrs O’Neill ami Henderson, Tho Ihie is to be laid within twelve months, and the fare is not to exceed threepence.

(From our own Correspondent.)

Ai’ck (~vnd, October 22 A remarkable ac-ident occurred to Mrs Hamley, of tiro Wynward Hotel, She i.-s a stout woman and was thrown from a buggy containing four p ople. Tlio wlieel passed right over her head, extending from the eyebrows up to the forehead, and also across li >r left arm, severely bruising both parts, and leaving a distinct track of the wheel, yet no bone j were broken. A very brutal assault was committed at a house in Shorthuul street last night, A man went homo wbh another man’s so-called wife. The husband returned and ordered him oir, but he refused to go. The husband went for the police, and while he woe absent the intruder battered a co-tenant brutally about the head with an iron bar.and then decamped.

All the Immigrants hare bean draped from the depot, notwithstanding the dull times. They have mostly gone up-country. The murderess of the two children fit the Th imes scorns to be sinking very low in condi tion, ami she is unmistakcably insane. 'i lie distance of the i’ublic ms Plato Hanoi* ••an at the forthcoming wees is altered to one miic and a quarter, instead of two mile;:-. Anwow, October 23. 'I ho Colonial Hank has bought Mr Marshall’s house and land, being one of the host stands in the town, Riverton, O', lubor 23. Mr David i’roudfoot, contractor. has informed Mr Theopbilua Daniels, M.F.C., and Immigration Officer, of Lis intention to bring au notion against him for libel in the Supreme Omul, ati being the author of a paragraph in the 'Western Star’ of October 0, Concerning the immigrants’ per Christian M’AuMand. The paragraph alntcd that one cause of the new arrivals not receiving engagement was on account of a misunderstanding between the Government ami the contractor. Qi'KENSTOK N, October Favorable news comes from the goldfields but the miners are bent on ft spdl of work at the Woolsheds. The Nugget and Cornish Cornptny has got favorable indications.