According to advices received in Liver pool from the United States there is rea son to fear that the United States frigate Shenandoah has shared th,e fate of the Captain. She left Boston for Lisbon on the 3rd September, and has not been heard of since.
The Evening Post, February 8, says : —All danger of popular commotion dur ing the elections being over, the immi grants ex Celseno were landed this morn ing by the Wanganui. We understand that they are to be distributed—some being taken to Napier by the Lord Ashley, an 4 some to Nelson by the Wanganui. Including the expenses of Dr Featherston while engaging them, their passage from Stockholm to London, the cost of their shipment from Loudon to Wellington, their passages to the dif ferent New Zealand ports, and their ex penses until finally disposed of, tht-y will cost the Government a nice little sum.
It is said that the war costs Germany a million sterling a day.
The return match between the Karori and Makara Volunteers was fired at the Makara Butts ,on the 7th inst., the ranges being 300, 400, 500, and 600 yards, Aa in the former match, the Karori men were victorious, making 303 points to their opponents' 265. In the former match the Karori men won by 108 points.
