BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4035, 1 February 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

j mi. v . Wellington, January3l. list* of' births, deaths, and. marriages for Wellington district, recorded up to three o’clock o clock tp-day, is ns follows;-For the month—bhrtHs, eig ty-seven; deaths, th rty-t ine; marriages, Cf the hirths, sixty-five took place in t hec'ty, A R d in the su'rounding suburbs. The prevalent cause of derfh was diarrhoea amonest the > children caused by drinking impure water.

■_ ' Alexandra, ; January 31. ;The Epsom*, murderer has not yet reached the King country, where he is well known, ™ father and famiiy reside at Kiiiti. Paiwhenua, the wife of a man who saved M*Kay from a murd rous assault atKuiti, is one of his sisters. The hatives expect he will try to make his way there. . '

nil. i Jt .Auckland,-February 1. Ihe Bchooner Kenilworth arrived at Waugar6a on Sunday. The capta n reports s’ghting a bng named the Maggie in the Bay of Plenty, flying s gnals of distress. The captain; on boaidmg her found that she had been thirty-one days out, from Newcastle, and was bound for Napier with coaL The brig was destitute of pro Visions, and for nine days the crew had been Iwng on three potatoes a day. The captain of tiie Kenilworth parted with, all , the provisions he could spare. The sufferings of the crew were very severe. • . • ~

... . , . Hokitika, February 1. !1 be Alhambra s signals misread. Sir J. Vogel is__not on board, but 1 has gone to ?i7 His fomily are, however, on board Alhambra. Mr Fox, his secretary, comes out via San Frhncisco. ■ •