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Evening Star, Issue 4081, 25 March 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, March 25. The ‘New Zealand ’limes' el is morning over f, ur column* of correspondence between Sir George Grey and Sir Julius the stoppages of moni s on mil way account. Sir Geo;ge gives Mr Ro( *’opinion as against that of the Solicitor-Gene ml, who considers tbe Government aoted according to law. The correspondence con hides abruptly without any satisfactory understanding having been arrived at.

General and intense dißsithfaction is felt by th“ public at the sentence passed up n a man and woman yesterday for improper conduct in the But Gardens and a deputatio i of influent! <1 crizens is about to wait upon the Minister of Justice regarding the nutter. An attempt will also be made to get a rehearing of the case.

Captain J. Campbell Walker, of the State Fore t Departm n r , Madras, L coming to New Zealand in connection with the org misation of a state Forest Department hire. He is expected to airive by the incoming M -rch mail steamer.

The fourth annual drawing of the art union of Yicto ia fixed for the Bth April. The subscript! n nrize list is expected to exceed any rec ding.

[From our own Gorrwpondf-ns.)

Napikh, March 24. The Bank tenders for the Harbor loa'd

•om are causing much diseuanon. The 6»uk of Austral a’s te.der was aoe ted, but a letter published by the ma'ia er of the Union Bank shows that; n : s tend- r was mo. e favorable, i t is repoit-d aim tha* - , b n n e the acceptance of ■hi tender, its terms have been allowed to be ann-n-lfd io such a way as practically to make them equ d Io these of tbe other b inks. Last evening there was great commotion among tbe sheep farmer 3, it being wlrspe ed by a certain banker that a manager of another bank had received a tel-gram di ect from Londoa t-titing that wool H d dropped llinepeice pr pound. At every street corner - eoplo weie standing with blanch'd cheeks discuss ag the news. It le ike I out this morning that one Manager had given the other the news a-* a secret in order to hoax him, being aware that he couldn’t keepa secr-T. Wellington, March 24. During the last few weeks th-re have been continual a ts of indecency in the Botanical Gardens, but th- Curator was unable to identify the cul )ri*s. Last night he caught a couple, highly respectable in appearance, who are strangers ia Wellington, indulging in impr.pe” familiarities in the gardens. They were brou ht b -fore the Resident Magistrate this morning, and each s- ntenced to one calendar month’s impr sonment with hard labor. Ihe severity of ihe sentence excited sympathy, as the case was not a bad one. The couple intended getting m ir.ied in a week, while worse cases have been allowed to pass unnoticed; the offenders being ie a good position here, ihe ma’e prisoner in this case formerly was a bank manager and is now a commercial traveller. A deputation is to wait ou the Minist r of Justice to endeavor to a mitigation of the sentence. The ‘Evo i g Po.-t, which a few days ago severely censured indecency in the gardens bring allowed to continue, to-night points out th -.t the sentence was needlessly severe under the f i corns' ances of the case. Assumed names are given. t ■——■■—