Lake Wakatip Mail. QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1871 LATEST TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 664, 2 August 1871, Page 2

Lake Wakatip Mail. QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1871 LATEST TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(greville and company, reuter's agents.) Dunedin, this day, 5 p.m. Caledonian shares have risen to £195, in consequence of rich finds in the old drive. The Ohinemuri natives have found rich quartz reefs, and it is expected that the field will be open in a few days. By the Flirt from Fiji reports have been received of thejdeath of Mr Turner, late Councillor of Dunedin ; also the murder of two other settlers named Spiers and M'lntosh. They were killed by the same tribe which murdered Baker, the missionary. Three hundred whites volunteered to assist King Thakombau to punish the murderers. At Christohurch, Edward Scrivernor, who was under magisterial enquiry *ou suspicion of lunacy, was found dead in his cell. The coach running from Doyleston to Curnham Station was upset in the river Selwyn, and the driver and a boy drowned At Lyttelton a man was killed at the railway station between two buffers. The escort is as folows: —Queenstown 1545 ounces; Arrow, 730; Cromwell, 843 5 Teviot,|4Bß; Alexandra, 429; Naseby, 752. The A lhambra arrived at the Bluffyesterday morning. On the morning of 31st ult. a saloon passenger died suddenly. She brings Melbourne dates to July 27. On the reassembling of Parliament the Goverument had 31 members on their side of the house; there was 3G members in Opposition. The financial statement caused considerable excitement in commercial circles on account of reference to fiscal policy of the new Government. Commercial. Flour sells at £l6 ; Adelaide, 6s 8d to 7s ; New Zealand wheat, 6s ; Victorian oats, 3s 4d to 3s 7d.

Letters from "Deluded Taxpayer" and "Z." are unavoidably held over, having arrived too late for publication. A meeting of members of the Wakatip Agricultural and Pastoral Association took place at the Ferry Hotel, Sliotover, yesterday, but the attendance was small, owing, no doubt, to the elections. The meeting, however, made arrangements for holding the ploughing match (programme of which will be found in another column), but decided to postpone other business. With pleasure we record the fact that the election day of first August passed off quietly Town elections took place on that day—that of aspirants for Municipal honors was one: and that of Wardens for the Depasturing Board the other. Both contest large interests. The farmer representing an important centre; the latter an estate of great value both to the town and province. The excitement in Queenstown for the election yesterday of Wardens for the Queenstown Division of the Wakatip was thrown into the backg 'ound through the Town elections. Nevertheless there were a few zealous great or small eattle owners, who worked hard for their respective party. The returns are not yet all inThe returns for the Queenstown division being all in except those for Upper Shotorer, will pretty well indicate the five successful candiaies. The totals are:—Lawton 177 ; Kirkpatrick, 171; Carolan, 142; Atkins, 136; Withers, 122 ; Bourdeau, 119; Matheson, 106; M'Arthur, 102; Amdi, 59; and Robertson, 57. 1 he only returns yet made known for the Arrow Division are Arrowtown, which shows as follows; -M'Dougall, 37; M'Nair, 27; Thomson, 23: Jenkins, 21; Colville, 12; Cope, 10.