DUNEDIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3547, 21 November 1882, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

November 21

The following names are mentined as candidates for the Peninsula seat in the House of Representatives, rendered vacant by the death of Mr Seaton: — Messrs Larnach, Cutten, E. B. Cargill, A. J. Burns, Donnelly, and J. Mcßride, Mayor of South Dunedin. At tbe City Court to-day Barnett and Green were fined £5 each for aiding in working a totalisator; and eight farmers in the Taieri district were fined £20 and costs for not taking sufficient steps for the extermination of rabbits.

The Gladstone Company at Macetown has sent down a cake of 200 ounces of gold for a fortnight's crushing. Owing to electrical disturbances since Saturday night the work of the Telegraphoffice in Dunedin has been greatly delayed. There was a constant current of electricity flowing on the line, equal to ten time the strength of tbe batteries generally used. Some of the batteries had to be disconnected altogether, and messages were sent without the use of the batteries at all, a feat never before done in the annals of New Zealand telegraph. On Sunday afternoon the business was almost at a standstill.

Messrs A. H. Ross and J. D. Thomson, both members of the City Council, and the former an ex-Mayor, have been nominated for the Mayoralty.

Messrs Dalgety and Co. here have received a cable message from London, dated the 17th instant, to the effect tbat the market for frozen meat has advanced, and the meat is now at 7d per lb. for best quality