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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 82, 5 April 1872, Page 2

General Government Prize Firing . — Up to yesterday the highest aggregate score for the Championship of the Colony had been made by Lieut. Muir of the Dunedin Artillery who had made 168 points, Captain Wales the Otago champion following with 164, the lowest of the ten best being 152. Miss Clara Stephenson. —We remiud our readers that this lady will give her final performance at the Assembly Room this evening, when she will be materially assisted by several well-kuown Nelson amateurs, who have kindly consented to give her a helping hand. The programme is an exceedingly good one, and we hope to see a full house. Raffle. — The well-known horse Ronald, who ran so well on the Wakefield course at the last meeting, and has since distinguished himself by carrying off some of tbe best prizes at the West Coast, is to be put up to raffle with all his engagements on the day preceding the Nelson race meeting. The tickets, of which there are to be 100, will be a guicea eacb, and the winner will certainly be a most fortunate man. Telegraphic. — We take the following from the Colonist of this morning : — Two men, one named Knox, a son of the Interpreter at Otaki, Wellington Province, and the other named Creighton, a halfcaste, have been apprehended as having planned a scheme of highway robbery at Otaki. — The schooner Mahia has been wrecked near Napier. — The Christchurch railway employees struck work in consequence of the Government having reduced their wages, — The Government have since resumed the former rates of wages. — True bills have been found at Auckland against Cyrus Haley, the fire raiser, on three separate charges. — There is an increase in the Customs revenue of Auckland, for the quarter to 31st March, of £10,685. — Mauuwbiri, the Maori King's Prime Minister, writes a letter to the Government officer, stating that land disputes are the cause of disagreements between the two races, that Europeans are the intruders, and that murders committed by Maoris in resisting European encroachments are justifiable. Large quantities of preserved meat are being shipped for England at Lyttelton. These were 1,278 cases of drunkenness adjudicated on in the Auckland Police Court during 1871. A Kind of slow fever, of a very serious nature, is prevalent in the Cromwell district, Otago. ■The Kaikoura Her.ald publishes the following, advertisement : — "Notice to the Ladies. — Wanted, a wife. A widow preferred. A good home and a loving husband. Apply to," &c. The Mayor of Auckland has presented a very valuable gold cross to be fired for by Cadets of the district, under the existing Government Regulations. The design of the Cross is similar to the famous " Iron Cross " of Prussia.