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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4481, 30 July 1875, Page 2

We have been informed by the secretary to the Post-office, Mr. Gray, that the Macgregor, with the English mails despatched from London on the 29th June, left San Francisco for Auckland on the 19th inst. The number of paid telegrams transmitted through the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company's cable for the wee)r ending Friday, July 9, 1875, was as follows :—From the colonies, 93 ; to the colonies, 92. Of this number 11 were sent from New Zealand, and four to the colony.

A miserable-looking man appeared before the Resident Magistrate yesterday morning, and stated that he was the husband of the wretched wouiau Anne Matthews, who on Tuesday last was sentenced to three months' hard labor for drunkenness and vagrancy. He informed the Bench that he had a son aged nine years, and that he found it difficult to provide for the son, as he was suffering from failing eyesight and rheumatism, and asked the Bench whether there was any institution into which the lad could be admitted. The Bench referred him to Mr. Atchison, the Inspector of Police.

"Borneo and Juliet" was presented to an appreciative audience last evening. The cast was the same as that which so successfully performed the famous love tragedy on a former occasion, with the exception that Romeo was taken by Mr. Douglas, and as this is the Hue of business in which that gentleman excels, wo need scarcely say that the piece was well played and well received. On several occasions Miss Colville and Mr. Douglas were honored with calls, and Mr. Hoskins was similarly complimented for his Mercutio. This evening is to be a grand fashionable night, and his Excellency the Governor and suite will bo present, as well as a large number of our leading citizens, who wish to exhibit their sympathy for the sufferers by the recent inundations in the south of France, to the benefit_of whom the proceeds will be devoted.

Unusual activity prevailed on the Queen's Wharf during the whole of yesterday. Express waggons and drays were busily engaged removing the numerous packages of all sizes and shapes that were discharged from the various vessels. In addition to merchandise of all descriptions, we have to chronicle the importation from Victoria, per steamer Albion, of some valuable pure-bred stock. Amongst them there are a valuable shorthorn bull, bred by Mr. McDougall, of Victoria, which has been imported by Mr. Donald McMasters, of the Wairarapa, and six stud horses, consigned to Mr. Pearce, of Napier, particularised as follows :—A pure-bred Arab stallion (Arab Child), a pure-bred stallion and mare, and three cart stallions.