ELECTION NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3217, 3 September 1879, Page 2

ELECTION NEWS.

Auckland % — Dr. Wallis, Mr. Huiyr, Mr. Newman, aiul Mr. Stark, have been nominated for Auckland City West. Tho show of hands was in favour of Messrs. Hurst and Wallis. Thames— Sir G. Grey aud the Hon. Mr. Shuehati wore the only candidates nominated for tlic Thames, nncl were declared unanimously elected. Hokianga. — At a meeting of doctors at HoKianga it wai resolved to nominate Wiremu 'Raima as a candidate for the Bay of Islands, and to ask Williams to resign; ! Ho .\vp6lil sccuro the Maori vote. ' " ; . Wellington. — Mr. Greenfield addressed the elect oh last night, and received, i\ imarfimous vote of confidence. '->'•/ Mcssrr. Hutchinson and Hunter also addressed the electors, and receive^ a similar vote. '• ?'■ J * '{ •' \ Dunodin. — The election took place on Tuesday, and resulted n,s follows :-r-pick, 1U0;, Ollivcv, 1044 ; Stewart., 98!) ; Macassoy, 744 ; liccves, (J7<i ; Bracken, 477. The three fuyt named have been elected.

The Ruugatim arrived tftirly this morning from the Manukau, and sailed at 1 1 o'clock for Wanganui and Wellington. The s.s. Hannah Mokau has left Manukau for Waitara, in ballast. We understand that Lieutenant-Colonel Roberts is expected to arrive to-day in Now Plymouth. Ho has baori at Wellington recently at a conference in connection with affairs on the coast.

Considerable disgust and indignation- arc manifested in Dublin over the discovery that the Moore statue there is made of zinc instead of bronze ; but more especially because tho rain hai got in through a crack ia tho head, and the statue is now half-full of water. Tha Italian Chamber of Deputies have passed the Civil Marriage Bill by 1(53 against 101 votes, after inserting amendments to the effect that ponnl action instituted against married people who have gone through the religious ceremony shall be stayed on their registering thoir marriage before tho civil authorities^ „ The Salt Lalie Herald is informed that the grasshoppers in that region arc attacked by a deadly onomy whoso sting is death. On Provo beach the grasshoppers arc dying by the bushel. A little fiy of a singular kind gots on the ironclad and poisons it so that it swells m\& dies. Tho sting of tho fiy is certain death. ' ■ •' To pestilence and fire Russia now adds floods. The river Amoor and its tributaries in Central Asiatic Russia havo overflowed their banks, and a large extent of territory, including several towns, are now under water. A f auiino, it is thought, will cusuo.