BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

Evening Star, Issue 4043, 10 February 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

Hokhtka, February 9. O» the an ival of the Arawata, ihe Su >erin-tsnd-'nt. Mayr>r, and district members waited on >iv Julius Vogel, and welcomed liitn in the niime of the inhabitants of Westland and congratulated him on his restotel health. The Town Clerk read a written address. ,

Feb uary 10. The Waipara has returned from Jackson's Bay. A number of German immigrants returned dissatisfied; refusing to land there. '•-,'■.,■ Gbahajistown, February 9. , , Telegrams on beha'f of the reemployed have been'sent"to' the Su'eiintehde<it?of Welliogton. Cantetbury, and Ota.o, asking if they can offer inducement to 30!) or 400 miners. The answers received from Wellington and Canterbury are unfavourable.

SIR J. VOBEL'S RECEPTION.

'Wellington, February 10. Amongst other arrangements made by the Vogel BeWtfoh Committee is a supply of free beer at each corner on the route of procession. Thepropo al was at first treated as a joke by some of the committee, but was eventually agreed to. A good d«-al of displeasure is felt by the public at the arrangement. : THE MAIL SERVICE. In commenting upon the arrangements respecting postal matters .recently going on between Sir J. Vogel and the New South Wales Government the 'New Zealand Times' says :—"Both Governments agreed to uige upon the contractor for the' # mail service the adyisablenes* of considering the outgoing mail for thi* month a* the, commencement of the contract." It then adds: "Presumably the propo-ition n mounts" t> this: that the Governments are willing to ignore the past, and commence payment of the subsidy from the >t mootb, conditionally that the service is efficiently carried oat for the •fa*" : BOAT ACCIDENT, Nelson, February 10.: A fatal boat acoident occurred in trie harbor .last night. Two men and » woman (Annie Freeman) weie out sailing with thn sheet made fast, wben a puff of wind the boat and woman wa» drowned. . The men swam ashore., , ■■■■-■ , The Superintendent and one or two ethers met Sir J. Vogel on the arrival of the Artwata, hut there was bo public demonstration. ' >