NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6566, 2 December 1882, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

<♦ [FROM OUK OWN CORKKSFOKDKXT.I TAURAXGA, Friday. •ur. I-.. L. JoiinAN was to-day elected Mayor •r y '1 ! " 3 J™ty of twenty-nine over Captain Funks. Ihe Mayoial election caused a \.-ic:iney in tho Council, for which Messrs. l-ir:j. \\ri i; l,;y, and Fitzgibbon Lonch, are candidates. Obess association.] ~. , ~ NAPIER, Friday. _ .ltal statistics :—Births, 2S ; marriages, o ; deaths, 14. p ,Tp,-' C t ust , o ™ 3 ™ vemie f °r l'«t mouth was £-i iGO, of winch beet paid £222. WELLINGTON, Friday. Sir John and Lady Hall and family purpose leaving hy the ship Lady Joeelyn, flr-hieli is expected to sail from here in January next. Snspicious circumstances have transpired in connection with the recent burnm"- of the Cheltenham Saw-mills at The .New Zealand Insurance Company offer a reward of £\lO for the couvietion of the perpetrators of the crime. Detective Beujamin i.as ai rived to make inquiries into the matter. The Customs duties last month were £2S,tfoO, showing an iuerease of £2500 over the corresponding month last year. The case of Hurrey v. Bank of New South Wales still occupied the Appeal Court today. CHRISTCHUKCH, Friday. The Industrial Association are going to ask the Government to offer a bonus for the discovery of a payable diamond field ic New Zealand. During the discussion, several members mentioned that diamonds aud other precions stones had been found in the -Malveru and West Coast districts. The St. Albaue Borough Council are anxious to raise a loan of £1000 for widening the streets, and a poll was taken yesterday. By the Act 37:! burghors would have to vote lieforc the proposal could be carried, but only d-i'2 came to the poll, and of these IIS were against it. The loan was, therefore, lost. It is proposed to hold a sham fight on Quail Island, Lyttelton Heads, on December 0. DUNEDI.V, Friday. An individual, who began by giving pound notes away for ISa at the races yesterday, afterwards gulled the crowd by giving them worthless watches, etc., for their money. Oc a demonstration being made against him he flourished a revolver and decamped. At a meeting to-day it was agreed to entertain Archibald Forbes at a public banquet on Tuesday night, Mr. J. Batru-ate, Ji.H.K., the Hon. W. H. Reynolds, the Etv. Dr. Stuart, and Mr. Jd>> Wain, President o£ the Caledonian Society, were the leading men present. Tho gross takings at the cai-aival in aid of the Benevolent Inetitnte, to whi<:h crowds ilocked nightly, are expected to exceed £3000. George [-'raser, of Puera, has been charged at B ilcl.itha with arsou, and was admitted to bail, hiinsolf in £300, ucd two sureties of £150 each. Mr. Robert Stout uill contest the Penin- . suJa. A three-roomed cottage in Xorth-eaf.t Valley, occupied by D. Chalmers, was burned down last night. It was insured in the Standard office for £ISO. BALCLUTHA, Friday. Edith Annie Smith, servant- to Sir. Russell, Etation-mastei at Stirling, fell from a carriage when the train was Hearing Stirling last night, and was conveyed to Balclutha. She was attended by Dr. Smith, but died at two o'clock this morning. At the inquest, a verdict of accidental death was returned. INVERCARGILL, Friday. The vital statistics for November are: Birtha, 56 ; deaths. 13 ; S marriages.