NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1727, 2 September 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

TEE tress agency. CHARLESTOWN, September 1. Charles Craddock, pilot, was drowned yesterday, by the swamping of a boat which was towing in the schooner Shepherdess. Baillie, the mate of the schooner, who was in the boat with him, was rescued. Craddock loaves a wife and three children. Electoral. ASHBURTON, September 2. At the Coleridge nomination 200 electors were present. The show of hands was as follows :—Mr George Hart, 27; Mr B. G. Wright, 120. A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr Hart.

Electoral. i HOKITIKA, September 2. J Mr W. M, Purkiss has retired from the contest. [MOM OtTE OWN COEEESPONDENTS.j AUCKLAND, September 2. A son of Mr O’Rorke has had three ribs broken by a horse falling on him at the hunt on Saturduy, A firs this morning at the residence of Mr Samuel Morris, Bemuero, destroyed a large stable. There is an insurance of £IOOO on the building. Desperate Native Fray. Telegrams to Inspector Thomson from the Bay of Islands report that a desperate affray, over Borne land, has occurred amongst the Natives at Kawakawa, resulting in two being shot. Another telegram, from Ohaewai, says that eighteen are wounded and one killed, and three pahs are being erected. The Invercargill Election. INVERCARGILL, September 2. At another declaration of the poll at noon, the returning officer said that he had gone over the papers again carefully, and would now declare the numbers as being :—Bain, 305 ; Feldwick, 295. There were several informal votes, mostly in Mr Feld wick’s favor, the bulk consisting of nine voting papers, the corners of which, with the numbers on them, had been torn off, thus invalidating the vote. The official declaration, as the act provided for forty-eight hours’ notice, would be postponed until Thursday. The announcement was received quietly. The election excitement is dead already. AUCKLAND, September 1. Serious complaints are made of tampering with the Waikato electoral roll. Three boys from the training ship, who ran away on Friday, were pursued by the constable at Onehunga on Saturday. They crossed the mud flats, and took refuge on a small island, the constable getting bogged several times while endeavoring to follow them. They were ultimately captured. At the Acclimatisation Society to-day letters were received announcing a further supply of white fish from San Francisco. Tho secretary announced that the brown trout ova from the South were received in good condition. WELLINGTON, September 1. A large number of men were put on to work to-day on the first section of the Wel-lington-Foxton Railway at rates of pay varying from 5s to 7s per day ; but n great many were refused work, while many objected to work at the rates offered. TIMABU, September 1. Sergeant Burtenshaw announces the recovery of the remains of Smith and Morrison, lost in the snow in Mackenzie Country. An inquest was held on Saturday and the funeral to-day. DUNEDIN, September 1. The information against the tramway workmen, for altering a curve on Sunday was dismissed, Mr Watt holding that the work was necessary, and that the Act of Charles was inapplicable to the circumstances of the