BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
[Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency] NELSON. June 23. Arrived. Excelsior, from London, 110 days out. WELLINGTON. June 23. The Agent-General writes to the Government that ho will bo able to despatch ten thousand immigrants during the present year. The Government has arranged with McMeckan Blackwood & Co. for the Baugitoto to take the outward Suez mail on July sth so as to catch the outward Melbourne steamers on the 10th. Negotiations proceeding for the regular connection of service. The Government havo notified to Mr Francis the acceptance and inviting participation in the Suez service on terms as agreed at the Intercolonial Conference. In the Supreme Court to-day on the Wanganui Education Eats Caso the Chief Justice delivered judgment for respondents—tho Education Board, on every point raised. Hart for appellants applied for leave to carry caso to Court of Appeal with full beueh of Judges. Leave granted. On security being given for payment of rates, and costs, proceedings in the Sesidcnt Magistrates' Court havo been stayed for thirty days. Tho Natives on the East Coast have surrendered their arms to the Government. AUCKLAND. Juno 23. Mr Beckham, E.M,, has dismissed
the charge of conspiracy to defraud | against Macfarlane, Trustee in Bauk-1 ruptcy, and Lamb, miller. GRAHAMSTOWN, June 23. Gold returns are rapidly increasing. Mining scrip is rising rapidly, and another excitement is probable. ALEXANDRA. June 23. A Native Chief from the King's village reports that Sullivans' murderers aro not to bo surrendered. Purukutu is now accompanied by three hundred warriors. War is regarded as inevitable. WAIKATO. Sullivan's murderers are still at the King's place, but will remove to their old quarters at Maungatautari. NAPIER. June 20. The Provincial Council has added a new_ clause to the Education Bill, imposing a tax of a pound a head upon bachelors, and also passed a rateable household tax instead of an uniform ; one of a £1 rate.
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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1083, 24 June 1873, Page 2
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314BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1083, 24 June 1873, Page 2
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