BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4025, 20 January 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

THE MAIL SERVICE. Auckland, January 20. The Mikado has arrived from Sydney to take the outward San Francisco mail. She left under contract with the Pacific Mail Company on the 12th, and was expected to be able to leave here to contract time; but the voyage was protracted by continual easterly winds. For the February service the City of San Francisco will leave Port Chalmers, and either the Zealandia or the the Granada will sail from Sydney, so that it is hoped the mail arrangements in future will be satisfactory, _ The Mikado remains in the service till all the other vessels are on the station, and probably will then be kept on at Sydney as a spare vessel in case of accident. (From our own Correspondent.) Riverton, January 20. A man’s skull was found on the beach by the coachman last night, about two miles from lliverton. It is supposed to be that of Mr Charles Smith’s, who was drowned in the Aparima. According to medical testimony, it belongs to a man between thirty-five and forty years of age, and had not been a month in the water. It is to be sent to Dunedin. Oamabu, January 20. At the sessions of the District Court, Oamatu, to-day, before Judge Ward, a well-known offender named Charles Ogilvie Robertson was acquitted of breaking into a dwelling-house at Hampden and stealing a quantity of spirits. Sergeant Watson, one of the Dunedin gaol officers, was specially summoned for the purpose of proving two former convictions against prisoner for robberies in Dunedin and the Taieri. A man named Holligan was convicted of larceny, and sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, with hard labor.