BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3197, 20 May 1873, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

{From the New Zealand Press Association.)

THE LYTTELTON ELECTION,

Lyttelton, May 20. The election yesterday for a member of the House of Representatives, in the room of Mr Peacock, caused great excitement, and out of 280 voters 237 voted, The result was Webb }22 Murray* Aynsley • * *lls

Majority for Webb - • 7 Mr Webb is a strong Government supporter.

Auckland, May 19 No formal answer is now expected from Tawhaio,- who is believed to be the cause of Mr Sullivan’s murder. Puruknru was one of the Mukati keepers, and in January last he asked Tawhaio what he should do to the Natives working on the roads, and in regard to lease* of land, Ac. Tawhaio replied, •* H you see a mantis on manuka bush, pick it off carefully j but if you see a reptile crossing the road, kill and eat it.” Mantis is supposed to represent mere travellers in Maori territory, and reptile the occupiers, the owners, or workers on the land outside the confiscated boundary. The Government is advertising for tenders for atores ai d forage, the transport of which may be required by the Colonial forces, within a rauins of fifty miles from Cambridge. * _ . i Garrett, the foprth officer of the Rainbow, ijrps seriously stabbed at Russell by a seapian. Mpllock taken from an artesian well being sunk by the Harbor Board, is believed to gontaip silver. A quantity is.beingassayed. Several Raglan chiefs have returned from Te Kqiti, and declare that Manuhiri and the Waikato will not fight, and if the Europeans enter their territories in pursuit of the murderers, they will remain quietly at their kaingas.—Kewiandtbe Ngatimaniapoto will plan remain aloof ; they ascribed the murder to the Kupapas selling land.

Gbahamstown, May 20

Several Fiako Natives confirm the report of the King having written to them for arms and ammunition. They declare that they sent none, and will not in any way assist him.

Wellington, May 19. In the Divorce Court, to-day, rules were made absolute in the cases of Overton v. Overton and Blackwell v. Blackwell. The Provincial ‘Council was prorogued this afternoon. The Superintendent, in his speech, spoke of the probability of having soon to ask the Council to consider the advisability of raising the price of land.

Napibr, May 19. Soundings show that a breakwater of 2,000 feet long to be inefficient, and wfculd cost about LI 00,000. A bridge across the harbor at the Port of Ahuriri is about to be erected, at a cost of L 7,000. The plant and leasehold property of the steam boiling-down company were sold for LI 2,150. _