TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5182, 31 October 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGBNCt.) Auckland, Tuesday. Mr. Long, the surveyor, died suddenly at Onehunga. A bottle of morphia, which he used for neuralgia, lay by his bedside, but the medical opinion is favorable to the belief that death was caused by apoplexy. Txmabu, Tuesday. The Timaru Show promises to be ' a ■ great success. To-day sheep and implements were on the ground ; the former were a splendid lot, and will be judged during the afternoon. To-morrow will be observed as a general holiday, it being the actual show day. The Primitive Methodist. Bazaar, held at Jonas and Harts’ Repository, opened to-day, and was visited by large crowds of people. Dunedin, Tuesday. Mr. Leafy, late Mayor, is being requested to stand again for the Mayoralty. Six hundred pounds worth of tickets have been already disposed of for the Opera season, A long discussion took place in the City Council yesterday on the subject of extended water supply for Dunedin, and resulted in an adjournment. In the event of a dissolution of Parliament, Mr. Macandrew will be asked to stand for the Taieri, as it is said the electors of that district are not satisfied'with Mr. Reid. ~ In answer to a requisition, Mr. Carey has consented to contest the Mayoral election. Mr. George Millar, of the Otago S team Laundry, was proceeded against this morning for a breach of the Act regulating the employment of females, by causing women to work in his laundry on Saturday afternoon. Judgment was reserved. Some interesting disclosures are expected to be made at George Proudfoqt’s trial to-morrow. (from a - correspondent.) Gisborne, Tuesday. „ A gathering took place on Saturday last, when the native chiefs of the district assembled and presented Judge.Rogan with a gold watch. They expressed great regret at his proposed retirement from the public service at the end of the year.