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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4282, 10 December 1874, Page 2

Thebe are now two candidates in the field fertile Mayoralty of Wellington, and the citizens will, on the 17th inst., have to declare in favor of one or other of the two Dromios. Mr. Dransfield—and we name him in precedence because he formerly hold the office—and Mr. Moorhouse, were nominated yesterday. It is not necessary to say that several other gentlemen had been spoken of. It merely remains now for the electors to make choice between two men excellently adapted to wear the honors proposed to be conferred, and either of whom will do full justice to the choice the electors may make.

The weather yesterday, over nearly the whole of the colony, appears to have been most unfortunate for the observers of the transit of Venus, prom nearly every telegraph station there came the same report of cloud and rain, and disappointed expectation. And yet there is room for hope that the transit of Venus across the Sun, in 1874, has not passed without important scientific results. We give in another column all the information the telegraph—and last night the stats of the atmosphere rendered it slow working—has brought to us on the subject. From this we gather that the American party at Queenstown were successful in obtaining a series of observations which we hope are complete. On the west coast of the Middle Island the condition of the atmosphere was more favorable than it was on the east coast, and the semi-private observers at Hokitika were fortunate in obtaining good views of the phenomenon during its whole progress. At Nelson one stage, and at Auckland another, of the transit, appears to have been observed ; and we are in hopes that the observations made in New Zealand, imperfect as they were, will still be found of great value to science, subsidiary though they are to those which will have been made in Honolulu and other stations among the Pacific islands.