NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1731, 6 September 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[fecit otje OWN CORRESPOND ENT.J WELLINGTON, September C, Electoral Flour.

Fourteen persons were brought before the Magistrate this morning for throwing flour yesterday during the election. The Magistrate let them off with a fine of 5s each. One man, who had thrown a stone through a window, was fined ss, and ordered to pay the cost of repairing the window. GREYMOUTH, September 6. The Grey Valley Election. The Grey Yalley Election resulted as follows :—Masters (independent candidate), 1104 ; Reeves (Government), 1030 ; Morris, 443 i Lahman, 259 ; Drury, 35. Donominationalism was made a tost question. A small return has yet to come in, but the result cannot be altered. , „ OAMARU, September 6. The Waitaki Election. The following is the total result ot the pollingHislop, 594 ; S. E. Shrimski, 553; W. J. Steward, 386. DUNEDIN, September 6. The Wool Sales. Messrs Cargill and Co.’s telegram, dated London, September 3rd, states prices for good greasy wool as rather higher. Prices for all other sorts equal to the lowest of last sales, with the exception of inferior faulty scoured, which are decidedly lower. quantities have been withdrawn. Electoral. Mr Macandrew’s statement at the declaration of the poll that he had to fight against all the influence of the Harbor Board has brought the chairman of that body into the field with a statement that he endeavored to get him and Messrs Tewsley, McNeill and another member to throw over the Board and go in for Macaadrew’s scheme of deep water wharves just inside the Heads with a railway down the east side of the harbor to connect them with the city. Sir W. Fox’s rejection did not;,cause any surprise here.

AUCKLAND, September 5.

Alfred Durham was committed for trial on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences and forgery. Mr Sheehan left for Tauranga, whence ho goes overland to Napier, The Auckland Stud Company have bought in Sydney, for 3000 guineas, the celebrated mares Sylvia and Onyx. Tho Premier left in the Hinomoa for the South to-day. , _ WELLINGTON, September 5. Cornelius a Porirua settlor, _ was committed for trial for feloniously killing a cow belonging to a neighboring settler. The prisoner’s two sons were called to give evidence, but neither understood the nature of an oath, or knew anything of a Creator. One son is nineteen, and tho other fourteen. Their evidence was refused. The same prisoner was charged with stealing and killing a neighbor’s sheep. He will most probably be committed on that charge also. The following correspondence refers to the telegram purporting to bo from the Hon. 1 Colonel Whitmore to Mr Ingles respecting

the Cheviot election :—“ Hon. Colonel Whit* more—l beg to call your attention to a paragraph which appears in the “ Times ” of this morning respecting the wrong delivery of a telegram addressed by you to Kaikoura. May I request you to be good enough to inform mo of the date of your message, to enable me to trace the error. —O. A. Masinnitt, Assistant Secretary.” “Mr Maginnity.— My message was sent about 10th August, and I would be obliged if you would ascertain if the telegram purporting to be a copy is correct, especially the last part. —GK S. Whitmore.” “Hon. Colonel Whitmore.—l have traced the telegram sent by you to Mr H. Ingles, Kaikoura, ou the X9th ult., and on comparing the paragraph which appeared to day in the ' Now Zealand Times,' 1 find it is not a copy. It appears to be written from memory, and materially altera the sense, especially of the latter portion.—A. O. Maginnity, Assistant Secretary.” A writ has been issued by Messrs Travers and Son, at the suit of Mr Clark, C.E., against Messrs Curie, Anderson, aud Anderson, proprietors of the " Evening Chronicle,” for libel. There are three counts in the declaration, on each of which the plaintiff claims £IOOO damages. Mr B. McGurk, who has been prospecting in the vicinity of Belmont, has submitted specimens to the Government for analysis, and the result, as certified by Mr Uox, Assistant-Government Geologist, is that the quartz contains 4dwts. of gold and silver to the ton. Any indications, such as this, of the presence of gold-bearing reefs in the immediate neighbourhood of Wellington, are highly satisfactory. The “New Zealand Times” says that a deputation of gentlemen, who went to Wairarapa yesterday to vote, waited upon Mr Bunny to know if ho would support the Premier. His reply was that ho believed in the Government programme, but would not pledge himself to support Sir George Grey. DUNEDIN, September 5. The charge of embezzlement against M. W. Hawkins was not proceeded with to-day. He was brought up and further remanded for a week.

Investigation before the Land Tax Oourfc held at Frankton resulted in some enormous reductions. In one case from £11,780 to £ISOO. The property is a mining claim.