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Evening Star, Issue 3988, 6 December 1875, Page 3

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Wellington, December 5, The Interprovincial Kegatta Committee met yester-iay. It was stated th t the subscriptions already amounted to L6OO, The regatta will occupy two days, and will t dee place on the Petoni course. The programme as at present proposed is as followsl. Four-oared Outrigger (for championship), Ist prize, Ll5O ; 2. Five-oared (or more), racing whaling boats, steered with steer oar, Ist prize, 1.50 ; 3. Fouroared in rigged gigs, Ist prize, L 10 0; 4. Pairoared outrigger, Ist prize, 1.20; 5. Pair-oared (inriggeci), Ist prize, L2O; 6. Scullers (outriggers), prize, cup and Lls, 7. First-class yacht , Ist prize, LSO, and Shaw, Savill’s Cup ; 8, Maiden four oared inriggei race, CIO; 9. Coasters’ race, Ist prize, LSO and Shaw, Savili’s cup ; 10. Secona-class yachts, Ist prize, L 1 0; 11. Minor four-oared iurigged gig race, prize, L 1 0; 12. Five-oared whaleDoat race, for volunteers and firemen, prize LlO. Christchurch, December 6. The first number of the comic journal, ‘ The Makomako,’ is published. Its illustrations and letter-press are very good. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand was opened on Saturday night. r i he Rev. W. M'Gowan, of Lyttelton, was elected Moderator. A very unpleasant religious squabble is now going on at Kaiapoi between the Lev. Mr Carlyon, Episcopalian minister, and his fl >ck. The former is charged with strong tendencies towards the Homan Church, and with distributing objectionable pamphlets to young children. A commission of inquiry is now sitting. A Bowling Club has just been established here. {From our own Correspondents.)

Auckland, December 4. Some anxiety was evinced in town during the Inst few days in consequence of a young gentleman, son of a former Colonial Minister, having been missing since Tuesday last. It is now satisfactorily proved that ths lad went away in the schooner Julia Price to Norfolk Island, having been induced to that foolish step by some youthful indiscretion which had involved him in debt. The following particulars have been received relative to the murder committed by a Native on the Ea-.t Coast under the belief that another Native had bewitched hisjrelatives. Tokina te Mara was a man nearly sixty years old, who lived an industrious and inoffensive life on his paternal acres at Katabine, a Maori settlement near Tetoki. He was not credited with having dealings with the evil one' Homina to Birai belongs to the same tribe as his victim, and is a much younger man. He himself had as wife an Uriwera .woman, and lived with her tribe. At Ahikereru, of late, three persons of -e Uriwera have died. As is usual in all deaths among Maoris, the relatives have puzzled their brains to find out the special cause for which they delight to look to the world of spirits, i e , departed spirits, or perhaps evil spirits, Last month a young girl, one of the above three Ngawiri, a daughter of Himona’s wife by another husband, died, and forthwith the relatives, upon what data does not appear, came to the conclusion that these three had all been bewitched, and their deaths caused by the

evil machinations or witchcraft of Tukina, te Mara, Himona, spurred on by hia fealty to h’s adopted tribe, and incited by hia wife and others, determined, or was appointed to take revenge by killing the alleged wizard. This evil work he carried out on the 13th inst. On that day Tukina te Mara, Rinapia te Uku, and a woman were busy planting, the Histmined being hidden by a large tulcahi bush from the others. The three others saw Himona, gun in hand, advancing towards Tukina, and presently heard a discharge. r J hey then saw him hastily retreating, handling a cartride as if to load again, but they were so much taken aback that they did not think of pursuing till Himona was [lost to sight in the sciub. He is supposed to have gone to the neighborhood of Akikoreru, and to be in hiding, and fed by hia wife, to whom he must now appear as a faithful knight, hero, and her avenger of blood. No warning whatever seems to hvebeen given of the intended assault. Ihe bullet entered just over the region of the bladder, perforated the intestines and bladder, and came out at the back of the pelvis. He received every attention from Captain Precce commanding the A.C. at Te Koko, likewise from Hr Kuyland, tut he died after lingering ten days, 'lhe District Coroner held an inquest, and alter a full and patient hearing of all the witnesses the jury brought in a verdict of wilful murder against Himona te Eua. The verdict will remain on record. The Coroner has issued his warrant for the apprehension of the accused, who will be seized should he dare to show himself in civilised parts.

Tiverton, December 6. MrJ. L. M‘Donald, ex-Mayor, delivered alec tare on Saturday night on “ The political aspect of the Colony.” The discouise was a long, prosy oration, having an unmistakeable leaning to abolition. No new arguments were adduced in its favor but what may bo fonnd in ‘ Hansard,’ and the only tiling worthy of mention was a statement at the conclusion of the lecture that, during the time ho held office as M ayor, he had occasion to call on the Supeiintendent in Dunedin on the Harbor Board’s business, when in the course of conversation his Honor slated that it was never the intention of tho Provincial Government to improve the harbor of Riverton, that the Bluff was the natural outlet for the south of Otago, and that when tho railways were finished there would be no use for a harbor at Riverton. Mr Daniel, M. P.C., got up and denied tint the Superintendent made such a statement but was hooted down. If what Mr M’Monoid stated is correct, it will materially damage the chances of a Provindalist candidate "being returned.

What pupil gets most punishment? 'ihe pupil of the cye ; for it is continually under the lash. Precise old party— *’Conductor, do, pray, I’ Vu an appointment .” Conductor All right, sir! Now look alive, Bill; here a a old gent wants to meet his young oomaoi