PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 521, 31 October 1857, Page 5

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

" We are now able to give a tolerably correct list of the candidates for the representation of the various districts; and we add, for general convenience, a table of the days of nomination and polling for each. TOWN OF CHKISTCHURCH. . Nomination; Town Hall, Tuesday, Nov. 3.

Polling; Council Chamber, Wednesday, Nov. 4. Four seats-, six candidates—Messrs. Packer, Cass, Bishop, Hart, Fooks, and Prichard. TOWN OP LYTTELTON. Nomination; Court House, Monday, Nov. 2. Polling; Court House, Tuesday, Nov. 3. Four seats; five candidates—Messrs. Cookson, Alport, Davis, Waitt, and Turnbull. KAIAPOI. Nomination; Court House, Friday, Nov. 6. Polling; Court House, Monday, Nov. 9. Two seats; four candidates—Messrs. Dobbs, Blakiston, Fuller, and Lee. AVON." Nomination; Mr. Gregg's barn, Thursday, Nov. 5. Polling; Mr. Gregg's barn, Riccarton, and School House, Papanui, Friday, Nov. 6. Four seats; six candidates—Messrs. Bowen, Thomson, Wyatt, Shand, J. Bealey, and Turner. HEATHCOTE. Nomination; Christchurch Quay, Thursday, Nov. 5. Polling; Christehurch Quay, and Mr. Archer's house, Friday, Nov. 6. [N.B. The day of polling was first advertised as the 7th.] Four seats; six candidates—Messrs. Hall, Ollivier, Harman, Miln, Le Fleming, and Hichens. PORT VICTORIA. Nomination; Court House, Lyttelton, Monday, Nov. 2. Polling; Court House, Lyttelton, Mr. Rhodes's house, Purau, and Mr. Blatchfort's house, Governor's Bay, Wednesday, Nov. 4. Two seats; two candidates-—Messrs. Sprott andFyfe. AKAROA. Nomination; Court House, Monday, Nov. 2. Polling; School House, Pigeon Bay, and Mr. Tuson's house, OkainVßay, Thursday, Nov. 5. Three seats; three candidates—Messrs. Rhodes, Ward, and Duncan. ASHLEY. Nomination; Woolshed, Mairaki Downs, Monday, Nov. 2. Polling; Woolshed, Mairaki Downs, and Woolshed, Teviotdale, Tuesday, Nov. 3. One seat; one candidate—Mr. Higgins. RAKAIA. Nomination; Woolshed, Waireka, Monday, Nov. 2. Polling; Mr. Chapman's Station, Rakaia, and Woolshed, Waireka, Tuesday, Nov. 3. One seat; one candidate—Mr. Haslewood. TIBIARU. Nomination; R. M. Office, Friday, Nov. 6. Polling; R. M. Office, Timaru, Mr. Macdonald's Station, and Mr*i Hayhurst's house, Monday, Nov. 9. I One seat; one candidate—Mr. Studholme.

A firm in Shefield has taken an order ion forty tons of rolled steel for crinoline, and a foreign order has been given for one ton a week for several weeks. '?*' -

A deliberate murder has been committed at Sierra Leone on the 14th May. At night, Captain Pearson, of the First West India Regiment, entered the apartment of Lieutenant Watson, of the Third West India Regiment, and-shot him dead as he lay asleep in bed. On the preceeding there had been amateur theatricals, in which the Captain played Othello, the Lieutenant lago, and Mrs. Eitzmaurice/Desdemona: some dispute about the lady led to the murder. Within a very short time two young ladies have, been burnt to death, owing to their light muslin dresses catching fire from a lucifermatch—one in London the other at Colchester. It ought to be generally known that ladies'light dresses may be made fire-proof at a mere nominal cost, by steeping them, or the linen or cotton used in making them in a diluted solution of chloride of zinc. We have seen the very finest cambric so prepared held in the flame of a candle and charred to dust without the least flame: and we have been informed that since Clara Webster, a dancer, was burnt to death from hter clothes catching fire on the stage, the muslin dresess of all the dancers at the best theatres are made fire-proof. Our manufacturers should take the hint.— Medical Times.

Agostina Zaragoza, the " maid of Zaragoza," immortalized for her heroic assistance in defending the city against the 3?rench, recently died at Ceuta. She held the rank ef ensign in the Spanish army, and wore several decorations. She was buried with military honours.

The Great Eastern. —Captain Harrison commander of the Great Eastern, accompanied by Sir C. P. Roney and Mr. Yates, visited Holyhead. They expressed themselves in terms of great satisfaction at the facilities which Holyhead affords for the reception of the Great Eastern on her first voyage to Portland, in connexion with the through booking system of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. The packet pier for the improved mail boats to and from Kingstown is to be immediately commenced, and if the suggestions of Captain Harrison be adopted it can, at comparatively slight additional cost, be made completely available for the Great Eastern.