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BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

% Bluff, July 22. A trial of Captain Thomas Thomson’s patent boat lowering and detaching apparatus was made here to-day. A boat secured for sea was put into water 10ft deep, clear of the side, by men who had never seen it before, in eight seconds; with oars it was put out in fifteen seconds. Nautical men of standing, who witnessed the lowering, pronounced it superior to anything known.

Auckland, July 22. At the nomination for City West, Messrs Tonks and Famall were proposed. The meeting m entirely in favor of Mr Tonks, but others declared their determination to go to the poll. Captain Daldy considered it azj insult to City West for Famall to come forward while he owed the City L7OO. He moved that the meeting request Mr Tonks to proceed to Wellington as early as possible, pledging itself to secure his return. The motion was carried. Mr Tonks leaves for Wellington on Monday, trusting to his supporters to secure his return.

Riverton, July 24, At a public meeting, attended by most of the influential residents of the district, the following resolutions were carried unani moualy:—“That this meeting support the shire boundary fixed by the (telegates appointed by the Biverton Town Council and the Aparima Road Board, and are utterly opposed to the boundary proposed in the Bill; that it is of the utmost importance that the harbor of Riverton be improved, and that the Riverton Harbor Board be endowed with a large grant of land; they recommend at its meeting that the most effectual method c •abating the rabbit nuisance will be for the Government to pass a m'eSsure making it compulsory for every owner or occupier of land to destroy or keep down the rabbits on their own bolding, and that the Government appoint an officer to enforce the same.

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Arrow, July 24. A Swedish miner named Andrew Johnson was found dead in a creek near Arthur’s Point, Shotover. He was last seen alive when going to Queenstown on Thursday evening, fie was then not sober, and must have fallen over the precipice to the creek. His bones were dreadfully broken, and the water of the creek was running over the body. ■ Mr Paterson’s servant girl fell while crossing the Shotover bridge, and had her arm fractured. The severe frost makes travelling dangerous,

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Evening Star, Issue 4183, 24 July 1876, Page 3

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394

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Evening Star, Issue 4183, 24 July 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Evening Star, Issue 4183, 24 July 1876, Page 3

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