TELEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3447, 12 January 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

PER SPECIAL WISE 10 ' STAR."

(Peesß Association.)

AUCKLAND.

Saturday.

Dempsey's Contract. The notice served by Mr Stewart, District Engineer, on Dempsey re the railway reclamation contract, expired today. There is general dissatisfaction at the summer weather passing over and nothing being done.

Breach of Customs Emulations.

Thomas Vernon, charged with unshipping uncustomed goods—to wit, a quantity of drapery—to defraud the Customs, was fined £100, and costs, £3 10s.

Mohi Tawhai, M.H.R. for the Northern districts, leases for Wellington, having been telegraphed for to proceed at once, being required as one of the Commissioners re the Waimate Plains inquiry. Catholic High School. The new Catholic Hiph School in Wellington street, closed since its erection a year ago, will be op ned next week by Father Downey, one of Archbishop Stein's new priests. While driving from the Waikato racecourse, Kennedy Hill's horse bolted, and he was thrown out and much shaken. Waikato G-oldfield. For some time past rumours have been circulated about a Ngaruawahia goldfield. To day a result of a trial test made at the Thames was received. The result is fifty specks as fine as flour from 105 ounces of quartz.. At a meeting of the Acclimatization | Society, a letter was read from the Prei inier requesting J. C. Firth to undertake the unpacking and transfer of white fish, ova from the mail steamer and forwarding them to their destination. The total number of boxes is 41, eleven of which are for Auckland. It was agreed that Mr Firth should deposit the ova in Lakes Tarawera and Taupo, the Council guaranteeing the expense of . transport. Mr Firth said he would hatch one of the parcels of ova in the Domain, ponds by way of an experiment, and afterwards place the young fish in the Waikato. Yesterday. Arrived : the Ben Nevis, from London, with 166 passengers. She brings some prize cattle for Messrs Morrin. * An Anglican Mission for merchant seamen in port has been inaugurated. Bishop Cowie conducted the first service today in the long room of the New Zealand Insurance Company's Buildings. This day. Additional Mail News. The Star correspondent writes strongly in favor of direct communication from New Zealand to England, giving complaints by passengers of the discomforts experienced. He says the Kent takes fifty New Zealand passengers, and the Norfolk and the Orient took a larger number. The Peninsular and Oriental is the only line taking through freight and anything they please. Capt. Ash by says he could have booked two or three. hundred passengers for New Zealand by a direct steamer, who do not like sailing •hips.

The Tyrone Constitution contains a letter from Veaey Stewart announcing that he has made arrangements with the New Zealand Government for another block of fifty thousand acres, and will take out a P»rty in 1880, by direct steamer to Tauranga.

I Just as the ship Padeshah was sailing I for Otago, Lawford David Evans, the surgeon was arrested and charged at the instance of his wife with deserting her and allowing her to become a charge on the Holy well Union. He was a surgeon with excellent practice. He became embarassed and left his home, a young lady disappearing from the neighborhood about the same time, and it was suspected the two had gone to New Zealand together. The prisoner's effects were sold, and his wife applied to the Union for relief. Afterwards the wife discovered he was in London, aud went with a detective just in time to arrest him. It was ascertained he had paid £30 lor the passage of a certain Mrs iilizabeth Evans. When brought up at the police court he showed that he felt his position. He was sent to gaol for one month with hard labor.

The Star correspondent is informed that there is little difference between the Union Company's new steamer Te Anau, and the Kotouaahana.

Captain Spiller, kaown in New Zealand has married Mrs Ealston, with £7000 a year,