SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2248, 12 January 1876, Page 3

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS

.' (FEB PBESS AGENCY.) Wellington, Tuesday.' There is no news from the ' Luna' to-day, Tho'Tui,'when crossing the I Straits this morning with Southern telegrams, saw nothing-of her. She must have sought shelter from the strong gale which Kennedy, per 'Easby,' reports. The sea is now too rough to grapple for the cable.—A' school of 26 porpoises were washed ashore at Lyell's Bay this morning. They are high and dry,on the beach.—Manawatu.election—State of the poll: Johnston, 191; Bullcr, 164 The contest was a very close one. The district gave Buller a small majority, but the 30 votes from Wellington polled at l'aikakariki swamped him. New Plymouth, Tuesday. ; The. Good Templar delegates arrived from Wellington and Auckland, and at once met) when some preliminary business was gone through.—Major Atkinson visited Inglewood yesterday.' He leaves -by steamer to-morrow for the South,—A letter received by tho Superintendent re the central prison, informing him that Mr C. W. Hursthouse had been instructed to proceed at once with the necessary surveys for the site of the prison.—The Inglewood railway was commenced by Henderson yesterday. : Hokitixa, Monday, Sailed' Omeo' for Melbourne. ' Totaba, Westiand, Tuesday, The election resulted —Tribe (old member), 174 ; Comskey, '17. AH the returns are not in, but the result will not be altered. Oamabtj, Monday.. Waitaki election—Two Provincialists returned by large majorities. Hislop; 335.;, Shrimski, 266; Stewart, 175; O'Meaghcr, 98,. , Dunediit, Monday. By the mail yesterday, Professor Caughtrey received intimation from the authorities of- the Edinburgh University that they would, recognise him as a lecturer in Dunedin, whose, lectures would qualify for graduation in medicine in that university under the Scottish Universities Commissioners Act 1858.

Tuesday. ; The complete returns for the Wakatip election give Manders (proviucialisf) a majority of 61 over Bradshaw.

Fobt ChaliMebs, Monday. Tho election took , : place to-day, and despito tho efforts of tho Superintendent and 'the"''Anti-Centralist' League, Mr Keynolds has proved victorious, the votes polled being-Jieynolds, 241; Green, 185; majority for Keynolds, 56, '

' Tuesday. : Arrived: Ship' Eakaia/ with 48 passengers aod 1,200 tons of cargo, ono shorthorn bull, and 81 Leinster sheep. She left Gravesend on September 30, and on the 20th of October relieved the French barque' Jeanne Portel' from tho Chandos, with fish, potatoes, aud beef. Eight of the barque's crew were down with scurvy, and the' captain's son was dead. The ' Bakaia' passengers presented tho captain Bnd cuief officer with a handsomely illuminated testimonial.