BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4143, 7 June 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

* _ Auckland, June 6. Thy licensing meeting passed without any petition being presented. Renewals were granted in all cases. ■ Sin-George Grey has forwarded by mail to the Secretary of State a despatch relative to the. rumors circulated in the Colony, that .the Imperial authorities would interfere .with force to c6erce the Colonists into compliance with the wishes of the Assembly, The Governor, and suite left Onehunga for Wellington Jn the Luna to-day. Sir I). ..M'Lean left in the Hawea. Most of. the members leave on Saturday. Henwood’a butchery, at Onehunga, has been destroyed by fire. It is insured in the Imperial for LIOO. -* Napier, June 6. At.the meeting of the Harbor. Board tor consideration of the tenders was postponed till Monday next.. At the licensing meeting all licenses were renevred to old houses. Of new applications iWP refused, absolutely, and Uo others refused now (but will be favorably considered at the next meeting), the houses not being yet completed. . Blenheim, June 6. Friendly Societies Bill, a meeting night of the committee appointed by two Lodges of Oddfellows and one of Fpresi ters was largely attended. A resolution was passed that the committee, after care* fully considering the proposed Bill, are of opinion that it unnecessarily interferes with the management of Friendly Societies, and is calculated to cripple their influence, and to give the Government of, the day power ,to put the Societies, to great unnecessary expense and trouble ; .the committee, therefore, hope the Bill will he dropped. Arrangements were made for co-operatin'? with other The committee represeats 800 members. _ Wellington, June 7. Owing to the heavy seaonatthedtfanukau bar the Governor will not be able to leave before six tbis evening. _ Kelson, June?. Mr Joseph Levien, Mayor of Nelson, died to-day after a long and painful illness. [From our own Correspondent ) " - - Napier, June 6. A. meeting, of friendly societies will .Wifheld; next week to discuss the pro- * new ~ Friendly Societies Bill. Mr disavowal of . their being an* industrial braifch coimecttd with the Go-

Vernment insurance has caused much as* toaishm^t,. s©6 ing. there. are agents in Wellington, Auckland, and .other parts ©f the Colony. A fierce paper war is raging between Mr Scaly, Commissioner of Crown lands, and the ‘ Daily Telegraph,’ re the recent Timaru land scandal. Mr Sealv, in the 'Herald’ this morning, writes that his name and action are to the * Telegraph' os a red flag is to a bull. 'The *Telegraph. * to-night gives a shoift Wt einstic reply, quotes the decision of the select committee of the House of Iteprekentitives as to the Rusaell case, and says that it jvaa through Mr Sealy’s Jeghl action that the land laws were altered for v the pqblic benefit. It is generally' considered that; Mr Sealy is foolish in opening' up a subject' in whidk heshowatOao sihaU an advantage. .

Wellington, June 6. It ia generally that the Cabi■net’at I their meeting on Saturday afternoon deeded to prorogue Parliamontahnost immediately assembling, as it was rumored some months ago would be the case. Thus I Parliament could enter at once upon legislation under the new constitutional arrangements in real session, which would commence a few days after the temporary.prorogation, as -Brevmcialism then would have legally ceased to exist. '

Three more cases of scarlatina are reported by the doctors, another being in the same family as before mentioned, and two in a different street at the same end of the town. It is supposed to have been- caught at school from children lately arrived from Dunedin «r Auckland,

Arrow, June 7. Gold has been struck on the cross reef at Mace town; at Scanlon’s Gully, by Thomaa Hall, two miles from All Nations claim. It yields 6bz to the ton. A number bf claims have been taken up, and many persons from Cromwell are visiting the reef. The prospectus has been issued of the Wakatip Steam Shipping Company, to put a fast steamer on between Queenstown .and Kingston, The capital is L 6.000. A com]>ony is also actively forming to start a new journal at ArroWton. The ‘ Lakes Herald’ will be published in three months. The weather ia clear and frosty. The Hemeward-bound Company are on good atone, and crushing 3oz to 4oz. Their reef is 3ft wide, •