TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5137, 10 September 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Dunedin, Saturday. The annual Canary and Poultry Association show was held yesterday and to-day. The number of entries was not so large as in previous years. The formal opening of the Dunedin Working Men’s Club was celebrated last night by a banquet, at which Mr. H. S. Chapman presided, and 150 persons were present. The_ new buildings are fitted up with every convenience, and the club comprises 400 members. Lyttelton, Saturday, The body, of an old man named Buckley was found up on the hills, in a gully about two hundred yards from the bridle path, by two boys, yesterday afternoon. Deceased had been in Lyttelton for a few days, and left on the 17th August, since which time nothing had

been seen of him. There was a severe cut on his head. He was lying against a large boulder, and had evidently sustained a heavy fall. Deceased had been in the hospital foe five months previously, and was suffering from rheumatic gout. 'lhristchurch, Saturday. The Lyttelton Harbor Board have decided to offer Cunningham and Co. £20,000 for their interest in the lease of Peacock’s wharf, Lyttelton. If accepted, all the wharves and jetties of Lyttelton will then be vested in the Board. The medical officer of the local Board of Health reports seventy cases of infectious diseases during the last eight months, forty being scarlet fever, wenty typhoid fever, and tea diphtheria. The number of deaths from zymotic diseases during the same period was thirty-three, of which twenty-four were children. The report is considered very satisfactory in comparison with the health returns for the other cities in the colony. Hawera, Saturday. A public meeting was held to-day, and passed a resolution urging the Government to complete the Mountain-road by November, so as to allow the mail coach to run, and so save £SOO on the mail services. Auckland, Saturday. Captain H. W. Mist has arrived here by the mail steamer. He is authorised by the Hawaiian Government to make arrangements for the emigration of Maoris and Friendly Islanders to the Sandwich Islands, to resuscitate the failing population. He will commence operations in Auckland.