LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 887, 11 September 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

♦ [fjrom. our own correspondent.] NAPIER. This Day. The Clive election caused great excitement, yesterday. Every effort was made < n both sides, and the polling was very close to the number on the roll. There are only 1220 names m all, and of those fully 120 may be taken as bad, being either of those who are dead or have removed out of the district beyond reach. The really available number did nob exceed 1120, and of those 965 polled. It is said that a number of Maori votes Mr. Sheehan calculated upon were given to Mr. Ornioud. The result of the poll was . — Onnond, 505 ; Sheehan, 360. No time has yet been fixed for the official declaration of the Napier poll, m consequence of I he scrutiny demanded by Mr. Maney. Mr. Sheehan left here by the Tar.xrua for Wellington yesterday. WELLINGTON. This Day. It is understood that the Government intend at once to start surveying at the scene of the late Native outrage at Ohinemuri, for the prosecution of the railway. The City Council has voted £*25 for prospecting m the Wairarapa district. It is expected the Government will grant a like amount. The schooner Laurel, bound from Picton to. Lytteltwn, with a cargo of timber, sprung a leak off Kaikoura. The orew, unable to keep the leak under, abandoned the vessel. They were pioked up l>y the barque Mary Blair, bound to Newcastle from Lyttelton, and afterwards transhippad into a steamer for Wellington. The Laurel whs owned by Hornby, of. Picton, and was insured m the Ooloninl for £300 ; Victoria, £300; and National, £400. The steamer h:ts gone m search of the Laurel, but has n>'t yet returned. Wi Purata and several other natives have loft Otuki for Paiiliaka, to attend the monthly meeting on 18th instant. It is believed they will do their best to persuade Te Whiti to discontinue inciting the Maories to ads of rebellion. Telephonic communication has been completed between tlie Fire Brigade Station, Lunatic Asylum and the Police depot. AUCKLAND. This Day. Waipa election : — Whitaker, junr., 306 ; Cunningham, 245 ; McMiun, 37 ; Roche, 24 The Raj lan return is not m yet, but will n-it affect the result. Bay of Islands election : — Lundon, 203 ; Williams, 145 ; Wi K«tene, 90 ; McLeod, 45. Two returns, but Lundon's election is certain. Northern Maori election : — The contest is now virtually between Sydney Taiwhangi and Hoane Nohi. In the Supreme Court yesterday, the appeal case of Grah.im v. Tole was heard. The appellant had been convicted of unlawfully occupying land m Rotorua district, for the purchase or acquisition of which money had been advanced by the Government. Judge Gillies* decided that persons occuping notified Native lands Were not liable to penalties to which the authorised occupation of Grown Lauds are subject, quashed the conviction, and granted ousts to appellant. NEW PLYMOUTH. This Day. Two railway carnage wheels were yesterday cast at Vivian's foundry from Taranaki iron sand. They will be sent to the Sydney Exhibition. CHRISTCHURCFI. This Day. City election : — Sir George Grey 1315 ; Andrews. 1250 ; Stevens, 1250 ; Rtcliardson, 1227 ; Treadwell, 548. The three first were elected. There was a great tumult over the result. It was long after the declaration of the poll the mob remained congregated outside the Oddfellow's Hill and when it was open for the performance the hall had to be cleared by the police, who were afterwards pelted when got outside. Two plate glass windows m Lewis's fruiterer 8 shop, valued at £50, were smashed ; but the police did not receive injury, though they were floured all over.

A tender-hearted woman m Monroe country Mich., has her daughter play on the melodeon while she swings a hen's neck, — probably it makes the hen resigned to its fate. Women must affirm that they are twenty-one years old before they will be allowed to vote m Massachusetts for members of the school committee. This effectually bats them out.