BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3979, 25 November 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Gbetuodth, November 2 L The cleaning up of the Energetic Quartz Mining Company on Saturday last resulted in 556'>z 13dwt of melted gold for five weeks’ crushing. A dividend of four shillings on 6,000 shares was declared. This Company has paid six dividends during the last six months, amounting to L 7,800. Wellington, November 25. At the regatta meeting last night, the Superintendent in the chair, a committee was appointed to carry out the interprovincial regatta in connection with the usual anniversary regatta of the Province on the 22nd January. Ll2O was subscribed in the room. The various boating clubs throughout the Colony will be communicated with on the matter. The privileges of the Hutt course for the races were sold to-day. The publicans’ booths fetched from L 35 to LSO ; confectioners’ booths from i .10 to Ll6 ; stables, L2 10s to L 4 10s ; and the right to sell race cards and betting books, L6O. The stewards keep the gate themselves. The privileges, without the gates, realised L 278, which is a considerable increase upon last year’s prices. Hokitika, November 25. Mr Tribe, member for Totara, was presented with a purse of sovereigns at a banquet last night.

A Baltimore paper reports that a Mrs Mulligan, of that town, gave birth, on the 16th February, to four female infants, all of them “fine, fat, healthy, and handsome.” Mrs M. is a small delicate woman, about thirty years of age, born of Irish parents in. Baltimore, A year before Mrs Mulligan gave birth to five male children at one time. They are still living, not the slightest deformed. The children form a little regiment, and will soon, doubtless, walk, perhaps march to the Mullians’ March