YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 891, 3 May 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[by SUBMAEINE CABLE. PEE PEESS AGENCY.] Floods in New South Wales. Sydney, May 2. A considerable portion of the Windsor district has been Hooded by an overflow of the Hawkesbury. A large quantity of grain has been destroyed. The gale has now abated. No serious shipping casualties are reported. [pee PEESS AGENCY.] Dr. Wallis Elected for Auckland City West, Auckland, May 2. The election for City West went off quietly. The result of the poll is—Dr. Wallis, 470 ; Robert Graham, 268. The body of Mrs Scott was exhumed today. A post mortem examination was held. The inquest is not yet closed. Moanatairi shares arc again in favor, owing to a discovery of rich specimens in the winze. Wellington, May 2. Fragments of wreckage have been washed ashore at the pilot station. It is believed that they formed portion of the schooner Theresa, recently wrecked in Cloudy Bay, and which have been drifted across by the late prevailing southerly weather. The s.s. Go-a-head went ashore at Poverty Bay this morning, but it is hoped she will be got off next tide. Oamaeu, May 2. A special meeting of the Municipal Council took place last night, to open tenders for the construction of the Oamaru Water Works. Seventeen tenders in all avere opened. There Avere tivo from Christchurch, one from Melbourne, three from Dunedin, one from Wellington, and ten from Oamaru. It was decided to refer the tenders to the engineer to report, and a meeting will be held on Monday evening next to consider that report, when the Council will decide as to Avho are the successful tenderers. Balclutha, May 2. The Kaitangata coal miners to the number of twenty „are out on strike. Their average earnings for the past tAA'o months have been upAvards of 12s per day. {From a Correspondent of the Press ) Timaeu, May 2. Owing to the rough state of the sea boating AA r ork in the roadstead Avas impossible between Saturday week last and this morning. This delay, occurring in the middle of the busiest season of the year, has been very serious. Of the five vessels Avhich Avere ordered to stand out to sea on Monday last—the barque Yvonne, the three-masted schooner Annie Bow, the brigantine Mary King, and the topsail schooners Rosannah Rose and Young Dick —all but the Rosannah Rose had returned by this evening. The steamship Taiaroa, which lay here unable to land her cargo from Wednesday last till the following Saturday, returned from Dunedin to-day. Some of her cargo Avas taken from her to-day, but the sea was still so boisterous that no communication was effected AA'ith any of the sailing crafts. The schooners Zior and Cleopatra, and another craft, have arrived during the last day or tAA'o, and owing to the presence of so many vessels, and the large amount of shipping Avork to perform, the various services will be very busy when the water does calm doAvn.