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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 170, 28 May 1879, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

(per press agency, , .. WELLINGTON. ■' J . , Tuesday. ' r The schooner Shepherdess parted her e moorings at Kaikoura yesterday, and a | rather heavy sea running at 'the time, she ran upon the rooks, and is now breaking up, 1 She is loaded with timber from Ilavelock, and is owned by Capt, Bender, of Welling- , ton. Not insured,' Insurance Companies 1 having refused to ro-insure her, 1 The poll for the Mayoralty election was declared to-night. Hutchison, G99; Hunter, GGd. There was a good deal of excitement all day, and an immense crowd was gathered round the polling booth. When the poll was declared Anderfon, of the Chronicle, was , seized and carried shoulder high to tlio Chronicle office, where he harangued an enthusiastic and tremendous crowd, red andblue lights being burned all the time, DUNEDIN. Tuesday. Horatio Roberts, an old Hospital patient, dropped down dead in the street to-day. CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Wilson's tannery, at Woodstone, was partly destroyed by fire this morning, but being near the river Heathcote, and plenty of willing hands, the bulk of the building was saved. Tlio entire block of buildings and contents wore insured in the Victorian office for £3,000; estimated damage, £6OO. CAMBRIDGE. Tuesday. It is reported that the natives at Waipoa, 25 miles from hero, have seized the Constabulary cottages lately erected on the rtfid to Itotorua Hot Lakes, and removed throe, reerecting the lmts on the land belonging to McLean and Company, who hold a Crown Grant. It is hoped the rumour is incorrect, but the ua tive mind is in a diseased state at the present time, and the Government is disliked and suspected of anything but good intentions.