STAR TELEGRAMS

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1735, 25 July 1874, Page 2

STAR TELEGRAMS

PER ANQLO-AU3TRALIAM PRESS TELECRAPX AGENCY. • -' ■

Hokitika, Friday. A new rush lias set' in. to the Greenstone, between Hokitika and the Grey, and it is said to bo turning out most satisfactorily. The prospects are improving daily, and already sixteen persons have struck payable gold, Otbers are being driven back, as the country is being taken up rapidly, and an extensive goldfield i* expected to be opened. Miners are flocking from all parts of the coast.

Port Chalmees, This day. The ship Maria Bhau, from Glasgow with immigrants was at the heads last night. She will be towed up today.

Wellington, This day. At the evening sitting of the House of Representatives, after the Public Works Statement, the Premier moved the second reading of the Licensing Amendment Bill, briefly pointing out its chief differences from the Act it is intended to amend. Mr. Fox, who made a long speech, would notopposethe second reading, butindicated a number of amendments he would move, chiefly the introduction of a permissive clause for the prevention of refreshment rooms at railway stations. He considered tha Bill a paradise for publicans and wanting the most vital principle of tho former one. After a few remarks from sever jI speakers the Premier replied at considerable length, generally defending the Bill as a more equitable measure than last year's Bill, and combatting the principal arguments brought against it by Fox. Bead a second time, and ordered for committal that day week. House rose at ten minutes past one.

Auckland, This day

The Jury in the case of Macfarlane v. Harris wero discharged without agreeing. Understood to have been eight for a verdict for defendant on all tho material issues, and four for a verdict for Macfarlane with nominal damages. ' The owner of the Lady Bowen prefers a claim of £12,000 salvage against tho Miltiades.