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Evening Star, Issue 4088, 3 April 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Attoklanb, April 1. ' It is rumored that tenders for the extension of the Kaipara Railway will be called for at once.

Thos. Mnlvaney, an elderly married man, has been committed for trial for attempted rape on Fanny Bowman. In the suit Taylor v. Melton, plaintiff obtained judgment for price of defendant’s uniform, as cadet in the corps of which plaintiff was captain. ~ i ;

Christchurch, April s. Mr E. J. Wakefield, ex-M.H.R. for Christchurch East, after a marvellously long period of abstinence from drink, has Km broken out. He was broughtup at the gistrate’s Court this morning in a • sorry plight, having been found lying helplessly drunk in the street at 1 a.m. on Sunday. He was fined ss.

Auckland, April 3. The ketch Fanny Kelly, the property of Captain Hoyce, was completety wrecked at Wangaro. As she was leaving for Auckland, and when between the heads, the wind died away and the tide set her on to rooks. The captain sent a man ashore in a dingy for assistance, but shortly afterwards the wind took the vessel off the rocks, but after getting underweigh she suddenly ; turned turtle, the crew getting on to her bottom. After six hours’ exposure they were rescued by a whaleboat and towed back to Wangaroa, where the wreck was sold for Ll2. The Magellan Cloud has arrived at Russell with four tuns of sperm oil. A man named Armstrong died suddenly in a fit of delirium tremens on Sunday night.

{From our own Correspondents.)

• Napier, April 1. The Colima passing here caused much inconvenience. About nine passengers slept at Port Ahuriri the last two nights so as to catch her. ' :

The Governor is going to visit the country districts on Monday. At the ball and supper last night he again stated his regret at the poor quality of land between here and Waikato. His journey from the latter district was in cold and stormy ‘weather. Wiltshire concludes his pedestrian feat of 230 miles to-night. His visit here has been far from successful, owing-to a variety of circumstances.

Lydia Howard’s Opera Troupe arrive tonight by the Southern Cross, and open on Monday.

Auckland, April 3. • H.M.S. Pearl, whiclf arrived on Saturday, has gone .into quarantine. Commodore Hoskins, considering the Board of Health’s decision harsh in quarantining the whole ship’s company through one isolated,case of scarlet fever, has expressed his determination to proceed to sea as soon as the man recovers. To-day’s ‘Cross’ deprecates the conduct of the Board of Health in being strict in this case, whilst free communication is allowed between here and Coromandel, the Thames, and Christchurch, all being places where scarlet fever is known to exist. The action of the Board is more to be regretted as the Commodore’s visit was with the view to make Auckland a naval rendezvous.

Williamson, the fireman of the s.s. Ladybird, who was stabbed lately at Onehunga, has died. Maras, the seaman of the Ladybird, who killed him,- has been committed for trial for murder.

The Customs returns of this port for March were L 25,830, or L9OOO in excess of the February returns. Arrived: Taupo.