BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4214, 29 August 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

[From our own Correspondent)

Auckland, August 28. * Fears are entertained for the safety of the barque Union, Captain Sherlock, from Newcastle, with 500 tons of coal. She is thirtyeight days out. Colonel Balneavis, the sheriff, who died yesterday, arrived here as captain of the 58th Regiment in 1848, was present at the assaults on the Maori pahs at Ruapkapeta and Ohaewai. He played a conspicuous part in the Wanganui war, and finally retired on half-pay in 1858, having completed twenty years of service, received the New Zealand war medal, also a grant of laud at Martetai. When the Waikato war broke out, Colonel Balneavis again took up arms, was one of the chief agents in forming the Waikato Militia, and betwe n 1862 and 1864 was engaged in active service. During this period he obtained the grade of lieut.-colonel. The body is to be borne to the grave by non-commissioned officers of the 58th Regiment. Colonel Balneavis was a distinguished musician and linguist, and was father-in-kw of Mr Bree, a resident in Otago.

Mining is improving at the Thames, especially at Ohinemuri, where one company expects a thousand ounces from the first crushing. Business in the city is very dull.