BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2801, 28 January 1871, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

■ ■ » Auckland, January 25th, via Tauranqa, January 27th. Mr Swainson has been returned for Newton. The imports into Auckland during the year 1870 show an increase of L 92,000, and the population of the city an increase during the same period of 716. | A contract has been completed to raise ■ the ship Cky of Auckland for L 94. I Flour has receded 20s, and the present quotations are Ll3 to Lls. ■ " j Gbeymotjth, January 27th. I The following ia the result of the Grey j Valley election:—Harrison, 864 ; Bucki ley, 680 ; majority for Harmon, 184. Oamaku, January 27th. Requisitions to Mr Macasaey and Mr tW. J. Steward, asking them to offer them- ! selves for election for the representation :of the Waitaki district in the General Assembly, have been signed. Bluff, January 27th. The Airedale made an excursion trip to Stewart's Island to-day. She left the Bluff at 10.30 a.m., with about 50 passengers, and encountered rather a rough sea in the Straits. She anchored at one o'clock in Half Moon Bay, lunch was partaken of, and a few of the passengers, residents in the locality, were landed. She then s'eanv d round to Paterson*s Inlet, the finest harbour in New Zealand, called at Port William, and left the Island at 430 p.m., reacb._