YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 5041, 1 May 1879, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

The vital statistics for the borough and district of Auckland for April were : Births : Males, 72; females, 75 ; —total 147. Deaths : Males, 27 ; females 26 ; —total, 53.; For Wellington Cityßirths, 104 ; marriages, 31 ; and deaths, 31. For Christchurch ; Births, 191: marriages, 39; deaths, 67. . ..

The Wellington Corporation project a water supply from Wainidmata at a cost of LIOO.OOO. '

: The musical amateurs of Wellington arc getting up a benefit concert to Signor Pompei.

At Wellington a young girl named Annie Petersen, who robbed a lady visitor staying with her mistress of some money and. spent it in dress, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment without hard labor. A young man, charged with counselling and abetting her, was dismissed, the evidence being too vague to convict him.

The proposed interprovincial pigeon match, which was to take place at Oamaru on the Queen’s Birthday, has been postponed. Two Mormon elders are going to preach in Lyttelton next Sunday. The Government have presented the Wellington Working Men’s Club with a copy of all Parliamentary papers in print up to this time—some 200 volumes or so, all nicely bound.

At Christchurch Charles W. Greenwood has been committed for trial for embezzling money the property of bis employer, C. F. Barker. Two other charges were dismissed. On March 31 there were 14,127 children attending the Government schools in the North Canterbury district. At the beginning of the quarter the number was 12,126. There were 115 schools open, and 336 teachers employed, besides SO sewing mistresses.

At a meeting at Oxford on Tuesday night a resolution urging the active prosecution of the Oxford and Malvern railway extension was carried.

Messrs Blair and O’Connor reached Malvern yesterday, having completed the exploration of different railway routes westward. The Waimakariri Yaffey was last inspected. - • .