TELEGRAMS.

Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 3217, 22 December 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

fPeb Peess Agency.] Auckland, December 20. Arrived—The Cyphrenes, s.s, from the South, and sailed again for San Francisco at 7.30 p.m. The Florence, barque, from Dunedin; H.M.S. Sappho, from Wellington ; Lleweßyn, from Levuka. Sailed—Colima, s.s, for Sydney; Taranaki, s.s, for the South to-day ; Lizzie Fox, barque, for Dunedin; Kate Brain, for Dunedin and Oamaru. December 21. Fraser and Tinne had everything ready to mend the Cyphrenes crank shaft, which was broken on her passage from Lyttelton. She arrived yesterday morning, and was repaired at once, and left at 7.3oforKandavau. The Government inspector only licensed her to go there, not through to San Francisco. The Llewellyn has arrived from Fiji. A man-of-war was to leave New Caledonia early to annex the New Hebrides group to France. The Royal Engineers are doing a large amount of surveying, and building a sea wall along Levuka beach. , . A Fijian chief has been sentenced to thirty lashes. The mission schooner Jubilee has been . wrecked at one of the Windward islands. No particulars are yet to hand. •' <- Gkahamstown, December 21. The Thames Naval Rowing Club have decided to send a crew to Wellington to the Tnterprovincial Regatta, and two boats are to contest for the championship (£150) prize, and the other for the four-oared inngged race (£100). Napier, December 21. At the nomination of candidates to-day the show of hands was declared in favour of Sir D. McLean and Mr Colenso. • The numbers were —McLean, 79; Colenso, 59; Stuart, 53; Russell (W. R.), 40; Ferars, 11. Mr Buchanan withdrew from the poll on the 30th ult. Dunedin, December 21. The Caversham election resulted as follows :—Mr Cargill, 175 ; Mr Seaton, 222. The Portobello returns are not in, but will make Mr Seaton's majority greater. The provincialists thus gain another victory.