TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4947, 30 January 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ; Wanganui, Monday. The most intense though not demonstrative interest was taken in the Harbor Board election to-day. The county had to elect two members, and the town four. The principal polling booth for the. county was identical with the only one for the town, a,t the Court House. At half-past 6 the members for the county were declared as follows:—Bryce, 173 ; Morgan, 166 ; and Baker, 98. Three county returns have yet to come in, but they are- not expected to alter, the result. The polling of the ratepayers in town is the largest ever known here, and there is little or no probability of the result being known in time for telegraphing, a» the returns can hardly possibly be made up before 8 o'clock. The expected successful candidates are—Watt and Duthie (bracketed for first number) and Cross. Re cricket matters. Cross and Parrington go to Wellington to play with your twenty-two. They pay their own expenses, and

not much is thought here of the liberality of the Km(iire city in this respect. T^ater.—The poll for the town was after all declared in time for telegraphing. The numbers were—Watt, 329; Dutbie, 322 ; Bamber, 263; and Tod,. 251. Cross came next with 160, There were eight candidates.

(JPlitt PItESS AGENCT.) Auckland, Monday. The anniversary of the colony to-day is ob» served as a close holiday, and the telegraph, office is. closed. The English cricketers play the following. Auckland twenty-two :—Abraham, Bennett, Cotton, Carter, Crawford, Dufaur, Gleeson, Garland, Kent, Larkham, Lynch,. Munford, Mackay, Robinsoa, llees, Steadman, Simcox, Swanson, Whitford, Whitaker, andTTates. The Hon. Mr. Whitaker, in reply' to a Waikato deputation, promised to favorably consider the extension of the Waikato railway from Ohanpo to Te Awamutu. Gbahamstown, Monday. To-day is being observed as a general holiday. About 400 • people went to Auckland. Others went picniciug up the river. Over 2000 people are at the Sunday-school fete. A tender has been accepted for repairs to the breakage of the Waio-Kuika Draining As« sociatiou's pumping gear. Nelson, Monday. . Richardson, owner of the yacht Gannet, sued the .Regatta Committee to-day for £3O (the money prize) and the cup, the committee having refused to pay on the ground that they had decided that the race should be sailed" again. After hearing arguments at length, Mr. Broad, R.M., gave judgment for the plaintiff for 430 and costs, and ordered the cup to be handed to him. DuNEDitf, Monday. . AtMosgiel on Saturday evening a little girl, five years of age, was killed by being thrown " from a horse.The name of the woman recently found dead on the : Ocean Beach was'Anhie Laurie. She was well known to the police. '■ In the District Court to-day James late lecturer for the American War Dioraina, ; Mied- Harry- Stanley, ~ its manager, for £2OO sustained by reason- of Stanley having'• assaulted him at Mosgiel in December last,,. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of £6O. The rateable value of property "'in the City of Dunedin for the year 1877 is £226,8i7, v showing an increase of £17,168 over that of ■■ the previous year. .'• .T •'.•'. The case of Robertson y. Ross will probably be concluded this evening,, counsel haying waived the right to address - ' ' -' ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.: ■-■ ■- The Board of Trade, after inquiry into the col. lision between the Hurunui and a Greek barque, suspended the certificate of Captain Boyd,-o£ the former vessel, for twelve months. ;. ! '' Steinberger has claimed one million dollars from the British- Government and Captain. Stevens; of the Barracouta, "for" the Samoa" affair. He says that leading barristers--and members of Parliament support bis claims; ..-% '] Aberdeen newspapers state that the captain of the whaler Jan" Mayon, of Peterhead,; re«* cently-encountered an Esquimaux ' who nv formed him that a tribe of' Esquimaux; living far to the northward of Cumberland Gulf many years ago massacred Gaptain'Crozier, the second in command of the Franklin expedition, and five other whites,"because they refused to surrender their guns and amnrdni* tion. ■ *;i : ." ■: ;!.') ,-. ■■:' ■-