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Evening Star, Issue 4066, 8 March 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

; , . Auckland, March 7. . “9 Superintendent has instructed the Proyineial Solicitor to try a friendly suit against the iJeneral Government for the recovery of capitatioa allowances, stopped to pay interest on the railways, ; The Immigration Agent repoits the demand for ft tural laborers and single girls to be in excess of the supply.

•*'ii - , ■■■;, - Christchurch, March 8. .AtyesterdaysmeeUng of the Senate of the New Zealand Ui.iversity a committee was anto mvcbtigate_matters connected with the 'ahd Taranaki reserves The onmuttse reported that-'-Your' committee

reoemrr snd (1) that it is n'ot desirable to take present fiction in respect to the reserve promised at i’aurang i; {'£) that a Bill be introduced at the Jtr xt session of the Assembly fir the ptir,ose ot investing in trustees, to be agree i upon byibe Government and the Senate, the lands reserv* d for promoting higher education in certain Province®, and of enabling the same to be administered for the objects for which they were reserved.The report wid be considered at the next meeting. An inquest was held on the man Storey, wuo hung himself on Monday las 1 . The evidence produced nothing to show the cau'e of suicide, A verdict was returned pf temporary insmd.r. At the ale of the Hon, W, Robins -ids stud flock of Lincolns yesterday, VJ‘6 sheep sold at an average of LlO 2s per head. Tho#fe»thcote veg t a tike p’ace this afternoon. The weather is glorious, Wellington, March 8. On Thursday, the 17th ult., two young men went out fishing at the Heads in a life-boat, with two loaves and two bottles of water. A galo came on and blew them oat to sea, and nothing being heard of them since they w;re given Up fur lost, they turned up this mom r ng. It appears their boat was swamped three times during the gale, and their breal and water spoiled. They wuv knocking about without food or water until picked up near Napier on the following Sunday, the 20'h, by the schoen r Augusta.

(From our own Correspondent.)

Balclittha, March 8.

M«s John Mxcitt*- of Lovell’s Flat, daughter of the lata John M‘Master, of Saddle Hill, died suddenly here to day. She had brought her daughter to cor suit Dr Slldth, and whilst wading for the doctor’s returj sihe Went to Alexanler Mason’s stoie to purchase ft pair of 'slippers. When in the act of trying Them oa she complain dof a pain in her breast. Mr< Mason came into the s' oo and observed M s Macrae sitting noon the door-step and apparently unwell, She advised her to go wi‘b her to tho house and Uo down, which she did, but expired very suddenly. An inquest will be held to-m.rrow.