TELEGRAPHIC.

Evening Star, Issue 4294, 30 November 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

[Peb Pbesb Agency.] Fatal Accident. Auckland, November 29. — A son of Mr Dremsley has bee i drowned. A man named Kingham has been arrested on a charge of indecent assault on girls five and ten years of age. Several Provincial officers will be discharged to* morrow. The officers of the Treasmy remain for the present. The officers of Public Works and Sheep Inspectors have received notice of the discontinuance of their services when the County system will be established. The Harbor Department will be taken over by the General Government at the end of the year. The Executive. Wellington, November 29.—Mr Hori Karaka Tawiti was yesterday sworn in as a Maori member of the Executive Council. The Government is not going to accept auy of the tenders for Wellington Provincial district advertising, bat will publish all the official notifications in the General Government * Gazette/ The Agent General, under date November 22, telegraphs that he has despatched the Leicester, with 340 emigrants, for Wellington; Marlborough, with 239, for Otago; and Waipa and Wiltshire, with 560, for Canterbury. Also, that the Hurunui, which put into Weymouth on account of an outbreak of scarlet fever, has finally sailed for Wellington. Illicit Distillation. Chbistchuech, November 30. —A complete illicit distilling apparatus has been found on the premises of a farmer named James Hamilton, at Waitobi Flat. Hamilton is under arrest . The Christchurch bakers announce that after December 1 bread will he ninepence per 41b loaf. The weather here is excessively hot. The Education Rate Illegal.

Christchcech, November 30.— From a legal opinion given by Mr Garrick, late Provincial Solicitor, it appears that the bitterly-opposed school building rate in the East Christchurch district cannot be collected. The Government first struck a shilling rate, then altered it to elevenpence. Mr Garrick holds that the Government had no power to alter the first rate, and as no port of that rate had been collected before Abolition came in force, it cannot, according to the new Act, be now collected. Some who paid the elevenpenny rate are also to have their money returned, os it was illegally collected. The ratepayers are greatly rejoiced at this. The County Elections. ■Wellington, November 30. —In the Gazette to-day are published Orders in Council fixing the boundaries and number of Councillors for each Biding. The following affect Otago : County. Biding. No. of Councillors. Waitaki Ohau 1 Do Otamatakan 1 Do Otakaika 1 Do Awamoko 1 Do Papakalao 1 Do - Waiareka 1 Do Kakanui 1 Do Otepopo 1 Do Moeraki 1 Waikooaiti Waihemo 1 Do Dunback 1 Do Palmerston 1 Do Hawksbury 1 Do Merton 1 Do Blueskin 1 Do North-east Valley 1 Maniototo St. Sathans 2 Do Idabnm 1 Do Mount Ida 2 Do Kyebum 1 Do Hyde 1 Do Pukctui 1 Do Serpentine 1 Vincent Hawea 2 Do Kawarau 1 Do Nevis 1 Do Earnsclough 1 Do Mauuherikia 2 Do Matakauui 2 Lake Greenstone 1 Do Shotovei 1 Do Matukituku 1 Do Cardrona 1 Do Arrow 2 v Do Queenstown 2 Do Kingston 1 Peninsula Anderson’s Bay 2 Do Tomahawk 1 Do North-East Harbor 1 Do Highcliffe 1 Do Portobello 2 Do Sandy Mount 1 Do Broad Bay 1 Taicri Beslyu 1 Do Waibari 1 Do Kaiborai 1 Do Otakia 1 Do North Toieri 1 Do East Toieri 1 Do Outram 1 Do Maungatua 1 Do Deep Stream 1 Bruce Balmoral 1 Do Mount Stuart 1 Do Clarendon 1 Do Waibola 1 Do Tokomairiro 1 Do Gieuledi 1 Do Eutaugata 1 Do Crichton 1 Do Matau 1 Clutha Waipahee 1 Do Pomahaka 1 Do Clinton 2 Do Bichardson 2 Do South Molyneux 2 . Do Brugh 1 Tuapeka Tevioc 1 Do James I Do Boaumout 1 Do Tapamii I Do Browns 1 Do Gabriels 1 Do Waipori 1 Do Clarks 1 Do Woitahuoa 1 Southland. Awaraa 1 Do Walbicetown 1 Do W inton 1 Do Waihopai 1 Do Portrose I Do Wyudham 1 Do Goto 1 Do \V akaia 1 Or.vti 1 I W'.Pccj Aparhi'a " I !'o 1 j Do '''ivyuki 1 IDo Waino 1 Do Waiau I ‘ Do Ukcaco 2

Importation ofßaoors. Blupp, November 80.—The Albion has the fob Lowing racers on board: —Garibaldi, Manuka oolt, Polly Varden, Mechanic, and Little Ban.