BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4110, 29 April 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Bluff, April 29. The s.s. Arawata cleared Port Phillip Heads at 6 p.m, on the 24th; passed Wilson’s Promontory at 1.30 a.m., and Swan Island at 11.40 a.m. on the following morning. Experienced fresh southerly winds until passing the Solanders at 5 p.m. on the 28th, and arrived at the Bluff at 10.30 p.m. last night. She brings fifty-two saloon and seventy-seven steerage passengers, 461 tons of cargo, and sails for Dunedin at 4 p.m. to-day. Passengers for Dunedin. -Mr and Mrs J. E. Brown, Alex, Keefer, and twenty-four in the steerage; also, 176 tons cargo for Dunedin.

Wellington, April 28. The agents of the Pacific Mail Company have arranged that the steamer Taranaki shall proceed South with the mails.

April 29. The outward English mails arrived at San Francisco on March 28 (one day before due date), but the City of San Francisco did not sail till April 3. This six days’ detention has not yet been explained.

Christchurch, April 29. The land sales yesterday amounted to over H 1,000.

The public meeting convened for last night, for starting a company to erect a new theatre on the site of the present building, fell through, owing to the smallness of the attendance.

Auckland, April 28. The citizens’ ball last night to the Governor was a brilliant success.

His Excellency and a number of excursionists have gone to the hot springs. Himiona, sentenced to death for murdering a man under the belief that he exercised witchcraft, had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life.

In Banco, in the case of Millar, late Provincial .engineer at elson, who is awaiting trial on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences, Mr. Justice Gillies granted a special jury, A Court Martial was held yesterday on board the Barracouta to try sailors for desertion. The charges were proved. Two were sentenced to twelve, one to nine, and one to six months imprisonment in gaol here.

At a sale of the Kev. Dr, Wallis’s watch and chain, seized for Education rate, a broker run up the price to U2, at which the doctor bought them in.

. . . Lyttelton, April 28. An inquiry was held to-day into tho damage sustained by the Beautiful Star. The evidence taken only corroborated the information already telegraphed regarding the cause of the accident. No blame is attributed in the evidence to the captain or officers,

(From our own Correnpondent )

W ELLINGTON, April 29, It is understood that Mr Rollestou, Superintendent of Canterbury, will he appointed permanent Under-Secretary for Education so soon as abolition takes effect at the end of the next parliamentary session. The Minister of Justice will be also Minister of Education.