YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1051, 9 November 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS.

[per press agency.] INTERPROYINCIAL. Dunedin Mayoral Election. Floods in the Duller. Wellington, November 8. At a sitting of the Vice-Admiralty Court this morning, in the Eli Whitney case, regarding which an inquiry was made by the Registrar of the Supreme Court and two merchants, the report was confirmed, and £1420 was awarded"to Captain Williams, the petitioner. Westport, November 8. There have been unprecedented floods here since Sunday, the river running level with the streets. The protective works stood well, and no injury has been done to the town. The back country was flooded, and on the Mount Rochfort railway traffic was stopped until repairs to the line were effected, but it is now open again. The Orawaiti old bridge was destroyed, and Ferrier’s Bridge Hotel was washed away. The Duller road has been destroyed in many places, and wheeled traffic to Reeflon is no longer possible. The county funds are totally inadequate to make the needful repairs. A man named Hill, employed by the County Council, was drowned on the Buller road during the flood on Sunday. He was washed from the roof of a hut where he had taken refuge. His remains have since been found. Hokitika, Novembers. In Lynch’s sweep on the Melbourne Cup for £2400, Mr Waters, of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Dunedin, drew the first horse. In Evans and Hansen’s sweep for £3OOO, Mr Alexander Maekay, Native Commissioner, Nelson, drew the first horse, and the second and third horses fell to holders of tickets in different parts of the West Coast. In Harris’s sweep the first three horses fell to Hokitika and Kumara ticket-holders, Mr M’Levie has the first; Mr Ramsay the second. Dunedin, November 8. The mayoral election to-day resulted in the return of Mr Leary by a majority of 362. The numbers were—Leary, 781; Woodlands, 419. Balclutha, November 8, Twelve coaches and forty horses were required to bring the passengers through from Clinton to Balclutha to-day. All were conveyed by Williams’s line without a single hitch. [prom the correspondent of the press.] The Damage on the West Coast Road. Serious Loss of Stock. Tua Cass, November 8. The had weather is now breaking up. Great damage has been done to the Christchurch and Hokitika road on both sides of the Cass. There have been enormous landslips, and the mails have been with difficulty carried through on packhorses. Large bodies of men are engaged repairing the damage done, and coach traffic is expected to be resumed in a day or two. The country is covered with snow, and there has been great loss on the stations among the lambs. The telegraph wires are down in all directions, but Mr Pattle, of Malvern, has displayed great activity and run some risk in restoring them between the Cass and the Bealey. There is every prospect of fine weather now.