Telegraphic.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 349, 12 January 1876, Page 3

Telegraphic.

(PHOM OTJE. OWM CORRESPONDHNI>:) O The Elections: Auckland? Tuesday evening. The Mareden, nomination took place at Wangarei last week. The' snow of hands was as follows :■ — Bouglas (Greyite), 24; Munro, 11; Bradley, 8 ; Valsam, 3. Franklini nomination, took place at Otahuhu on Monday- : Lusk (Greyite), 24; Hamlin (Greyite), 22;- Woodward, 16; Goodfellow,, 12; May 10. Buekland' was- proposed), "but after slating. Lusk and" Grey, retired. The Waitemata nomination took place at the North Shore on- Monday : Dr Lee, 19'; J. S. Macfarlane, 13; Hurst, ID*;-. Henderson, 8.. All the candidates> declared for Grey^. whose central committee has expressed its intention« of- not influencing the election; Macfarlane made a. vigorous attack- on Henderson's past parliamentary actions. The • declaration; of the Eden poll', was made to-day. . Tole's position is unaltered; Waipa polling : : Hamilton — Cox (Centralist),. 62 ;- McMinnj 6. Alexandra — Cox, 40; McMinn, 35. Blodney election-.: Farnall has.re-

th*ed in favor of Sheehan, whose election is considered certain. At the criminal sessions Rycroft,. accused of amalgam stealing from the Tokatea Company, was acquitted. W. Kirby has been ill since his incarceration. He was reported dead to-day, but without truth. Ihe Taranakt team were beaten by the United, Manukau, and North Shore Clubs, but won the match at Grahamstown. They left to-day for home. " Piako" writes to the Star that he was arranging for the purchase of tho Piako Swamp at 5s or 7s 6d an acre at the time when the secret purchase took place — [Piako' B letter looks uncommonly like an electioneering dodge. — Ed. B.P.T.] Arrived: Elmgrove, from Newcastle. PEB PRESS AGENCY. Auckland Harbor Board has re-, solved to construct a graving dock 325 feet long. The estimated cost is £65,000. Napier Artillery Volunteers firod in the first stage for the representation at Wanganui. The following are the scores — Sellars, 74 ; Boss, 67 ; Garner, 65. Auckland : Cyphrenes arrived from Kandavou after transfering the mails to the City of Melbourne. Llewellyn arrived from Levuka. She brings the following Fiji news : The Royal Engineers found a now encampment at Vajadule. The Rewa plantations are looking well. The weather at Fiji has been remarkably cool, hurricanes are expected. The Nymphe, man-of-war, recently appointed to the Australian station, was lying at Levuka. The Star of the South made her first trip successfully between the Island. A. S. N. Co. have withdrawn the Egmont from the Fiji trade.