BIT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3963, 6 November 1875, Page 2

BIT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, November 5.., The following notice appears iu the ' General Governm nt Gazette'published last night:— " With a view to the amplication of the sum granted for the current year to municipalities and road boards, it is requested that returns showing the amount actually received by each: municipality or road board during its last past financial year in tcspect of rates levied for that period be forwarded to the Provincial Auditor of the Pr< viuce. Such returns must be made on forms to be obtained from the Provincial Auditor, and must be verified by the solemn declaration of the mayor of the municipality, or the chairman of the road board, as the case may be.—H. A. ATKINSON." Mr F. D. Fenton has been definitely appointed District in the Province of Auckland, and Mr R. C. Bastow Resident Magistrate at Auckland. At abont three o'clock this . afternoon a tolerably .respectable looking man deliberately broke fi v>- Im ge plate-glaßs windows at Government House with a heavy wtvlking-i-tick His Excellency and hiß private secretary were in one of the moms while oue of the windows in it was being swished. 1 ieutenant Maling ihstantlv jumped out of the window of an adjoining room, which was fort'inauely open, and giive cha-e to <hf man and collared him after a short ran The man was perfectly Bober, and wh n ask»d the r-ason for his extraordinary conduct lie said "Ifhe ict was foe a wager, |ftud I've done it "

AucklaKh, November 5. ''he Vasco di Ouiin has arrived lrom San Francisco : Passengers : For ('hr;B'h;huroh—Mr and Mrs i 'onr.itfh. She brings a hix of salmon ova for Napier The cutler Cruuette has been str.wnded. She is pxpec'eii to become a wreck. Sho is insured in tiie South l:nti«<h for 1,250. Mr I homas Jackson has been appoiuted RM. at Onehunga.f vice Mr Bas» v .ow, who t-.\lo»s the late Mr i3eckliani'a place at Aaok--1 .ml. A triumphal arch is to be rected a<t Newmarket in liouor of Sir G. Grey's arrival'. Mr Lodder, tbe mamger of the Steam Packet Company, proceeds to Fiji in the I Jewellyn t j-morrow, to endeavor to secure a Fijian subsidy. Wanganm, November 6. The Jocfkey Club hist night arranged a Jp'rogramme for the 13th and 14th of J arnxry. 'I he pr.ncipal race is the Handicap, 1 170, and a I >ei by is to be instituted. At the Agricultural Show yesterday, Dotrtfli's and i.'o.'s President, lately from Otago, took lir.st pi ize for Colonial stud horses, and also the Champion prize ; Shield's Sur, rise, aho from Otago, second.

(From our own Correspondent*.)

Auckland, November 6. The inqueot on the child of an immigrant by the l-iitisb Empire, who was drowned through the mother jumping over the wharf v ith it tied to her, was hold to*day, The evidence showed that the mother was seen in au excitable and unsettled state of mind previously. She seems to be a hypochondriac, and on one occasion went to the police station with a long complaint against her husband of illtreatment to the child. On being pressed to state particulars, she said he did not give it lollies. The jufy returned a verdict of “ temporary insanity.” , The Broderick' C«stle, announced by cable as dismasted, had a large number Of .immigrants on board for Auckland, and is a fine iron ship of 1,775 ions, chartered' by Shaw, SaVille, and Co. _ , Wellington, November 0. The Commissioner of Customs has i educed the time of suspension of the Certificate of i’'rederick Cones, late master of the Bruce, to six months.