TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 5227, 20 November 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[Fbouc thh Pbmb Aoiscr.] AuciliAkd, Not 19, Henry S. Meyer*, merchant, was committed (or trial on three charges of fraud in cocnsction with hieiniolreooy. Th» praiecaton itated that soother charge would be preferred in the Supreme Court. The defence wu referred.

; Mr Firth hu returned from distributing the salmon ora. Fifty thousand were sueaenfolly deposited in the upper resobesof the Wairoa sod Kaipara. Messrs Harry Brett and Fredfc. Lukin, of McArthur end Co, ate the only candidates nominated for the mayoralty. , QB4HAMBXOWW, Not. 19. The Mayor has declined to call a publis meeting to express an opinion on the political situation, firing as his reason that,, as lbs business ol euch a meeting would be the discusaionof, general polities, be as Major should keepaloof, and therefore he deolfca officially to do anything which might bee* strued into political bias in a moaiciptl | functionary. V WKuasaroa, sor. 19 . Mr George Elliott Barton has withdrawn | from candidature for th« Mayoralty in eons*- | quenoe of being counsel in several oases in | which the Corporation is concerned, and in I some of which be would hare to appcsr | against himself. I STAEVINO MINERS. I The Chairman of the Wallace County 1 Co on oil has telegraphed from Eiverton to the i Colonial stating that the minin* | population at Orapuki, owing to the late bad | weather, could not communicate by host ui | order to obtain provisions, and were, in con- | sequence, in great distress for want of tbs | commonest necessaries of life. Beasksdibst 1 the Stella might be allowed to take provision 1 to Orepuki. Colonel Whitmore hss to* S graphed to Gsptain Fairchild to do so. 3 THE dBABOH FOE THE WRECK OF I

THE SBHBBAZi OBaNI. The steamer Qeielle retumel from tM Auckland bland*. Bhe did not r#oo»« w< fold from the wreck of the General Grant, i» haa abandoned the ***wh. BiKKKKni Hot 1».

Thompson’* sawmill, Waitohi T*llpy> burnt on Sunday. The loti is about The cans* of the fire i# unknown Insures** —lmperial, £760; Victor’s, £SOO. An ff qoifT will be held on Tuesday. * Netao-v. Not 19 A fatal accident ooourred yesterday afttr* noon to Mr Major!bank, a resident of Waits* who, when arriving home, stooped for»»rt w whip the hone, lost hie balance and fall n*° the box, lighting on hie bead and xuptwiei* blood vessel in the brain. Ho wae.’flhn* home and died two hours after. The salmon ora all hitched. The Ash arc young and healthy. • DtrSKDtJf, Not. lit A match took plaea on Saturday afternooa between crews of the Union Steamship pany and the Otago Bowing Club. *®* latter won by a length. , The Sues mail was delivered hero night, at 7 o’claek. This morning, in the police court, " •aid that some remark# were ktely oed» ® the papers and by members rf the Synod" regard to the publication of indecent P«*** Inga. He had base no party to tione, and had kept toe Const-clear, noticed the raster now because. boo***! the Daily Tim* had censured hijn o clearier the Court cn a recent oocsskw.® he had not done so because the case was of sammary jurisdiction, and be nsa power to clear the Kaf J 9. The river la heavily flooded, and b»» «>*[ menced to overflow iU banks. It '» . rising, bat so damage to toe town u » BH ******* Exvibtok, Noe 19__ The public meeting held at Bo ° n , u to-dsy, Was well attended. A resollutton passed supporting toe present. Ministry. Rodgkinson was complimented for th» iB scientiou* support he had given his the past asd present. In event of dir « * Grey’s Ministry being defeated, the me considered a dissolution necessary. [PBOM OTTB OWS COBBBBPOWD*p]- q L AXICKLAM), The bakehouee, shop, and premises* * d by ! Wrigley, baker, at Botoroa, were Are on Saturday night. Nothag *»» and rfb loe# was complete. us ta* At the nomination for the V day, Mr Fredk. Larkm of the Arm 1 » McArthur and Co., and Mr Henry proprietor of the Jtoeanyr Stc . Mfcnated. It is feared there » . tion in Mr Larkin’si nomination, mam"* of hie name sot being on the burg ‘ Mr Brett’* position is also he,eVf f ho Ci ij untenable, ae he is the advertiser for tb , Council. It is held by sotn-, ‘b* l r 0 ), position renders him disqualified in to® jg 7& of the Municipal Corporations Act, Legal opinions are to be taken to m _—; I