BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3971, 16 November 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

. Gbahamstown, November 15. "I he Tairua directors have dismissed their mine manager, Mr Buche; MrEhrenfried one of the* Directors, recently visited the mine found the shaft boarded and inaccessible, anti was told that the rich gold had all run out Ehrenfried’s report reflects on the manager who appears to have withheld this news from all but one or two. Some who got the news have sold nearly all their shares. Probably further disclosures will be made. The scrip is now at a mere nominal value. Blenheim, November 15. ■err j railway to Picton will be opened on Wednesday, which will be observed as a holiday, Napier, November 15. At Papakara, a dozen Maoris forcibly removed the gates of the pound, removed eigh'. horses, and threatened the poundkeeper and assistant, but without actually assaulting them. The offenders will be arrested. Christchurch, November 16. The Jookey Club have decided to erect an additional stand on the race-course. Eighteen sets of exhibits have been received for the Philadelphia Exhibition, comprising hams, bacon, preserved meats, tomato sauce, wheat, rye grass seed, malt, barley, rye, beans, oats, flax, soap, candles, limestone, leather, colored mats, skins, coal, and chicory. The cricket match vesterday, between the Christchurch Club and the crew of H.M.S. Sappho, resulted in favor of the latter by five runs, with four wickets to go down ; and the rule match yesterday, between the Christchurch Cavalry and the crew of tho Sappho, resulted in favor of the latter by ninety points. Ihe Gavalry were armed with carbines, and the Wappho men with long Sniders. After the match tho two teams changed arms, and fired hve shots each at 400 yards, when tho Cavaliv scored 103, and the Sappho men thirty thus proving the great superiority of the lon>' Winders over carbines. 0 Wellington, November 16. Une of the crew of the Herschel was found drowned this morning with a bundle of corks fastened round him. He tried last night to swim aehore from the vessel,

Westport, November 16. "[he ‘Buller News’ Company have relinquished their paper, which is now in the hands of Mr W, Wright, the late company’s manager.

(From our own Correspondent.)

Auckland, November 15. A carpenter named John Brady has been committed for trial on three charges of forgery. Graiiarastown telegrams state that two drowning cases occurred in Kawareranga River. Mr Anderson, a settler at Kawareranga Valley, discovered the dead body of a man in the river, about a mile above the Booms, and brought the body to town. From the dress it appears to be that of a bushman, from thirty-five to forty years of age. It has not been identified. This morning another sad case of drowning occurred. Young Josiah Winter, a butcher’s-order-man, was fording the river when the tide was high. Two men, named Donovan and Robson, bathing near the place, saw him crossing, and when half-way across the horse plunged, and Winter apparently lost his presence of mind. They sung out to him to give the horse its head, but just then the horse sank, and when it rose again Winter was in the water struggling. Hobson swam towards him, while Donovan went for a boat moored close by. Robson had reached within six yards of Winter when the latter sank. He was not seen afterwards. Robson swam round, and dived, but unsuccessfully. Riverton, November 16. The Hon. W. H. Reynolds arrived here yesterday, and was waited upon by the Mayor, Mr M'Gillivray, M.H.R , and the members of the Harbor Board. He visited the mouth of the river to ascertain what was required for harbor improvements, and thought there would be no difficulty, with a small outlay, in making the harbor available for vessels by running a breakwater from the mouth of the river to the bar, about 100 yards out. He pro mised the Harbor Board that, if they got the Superintendent to send a competent engineer to survey it, he would do his utmost to have a Harbor Board Bill framed and passed, and an endowment granted next session of the Assembly. He has gone to Otautau to-day, and returns to Invercargill in the evening.