TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5515, 29 November 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, Thursday. Sir George Grey is expected to visit the Ngapuhi in response to an invitation from leading chiefs. Councillor Blackey has been elected Mayor of Onehunga. Father Hennebery lectures in reply to exPriest Ohiniguay. A woman named Dora Austin suddenly fell dead in Grey-streot to-day. The building destroyed in Hobson-street was insured in the Norwich Union for £3OO. A deputation from the Mechanics Institute urged the Council to grant assistance. The question was referred to the Finance Committee. Grahamstown, Thursday. The Mayoralty election was decided in favor of the new candidate, McCullough, against the present occupant, Kilgour, by 80 votes. The numbers were 381 and 301. Waitara, Thursday. The steamer Hauraki went ashore north of Waitax*a River. The rudder chain parted. The tide is leaving her dry. The hull is not injured, but there is very little 'hope of getting her off in the present state of the sea. The cargo is being landed. She was insured for £ISOO. New Plymouth, Thursday. Tho Herald publishes a telegram from Mr. Stout vc. immigration to Taranaki, as follows : —“ We have none to spare from other places ; all are clamouring for more immigrants. I propose to take several families from Jackson Bay in about a fortnight, and will forward them direct to New Plymouth, and if there can be got any immigrants not required will arrange to forward them to New Plymouth, The Agent-General will be informed of the wants of Taranaki.” Re the Waimate Plains sale, he will not definitely fix the place till the survey is finished. Tho cause of the Hauraki going ashore at Waitara was that her rudder chains parted. She was high and dry at low tide. The cargo is all safe. Rewi is still in New Plymouth with his family, and walks about the town as if he had been accustomed to the place all his life. He dresses as a European, and his wife and children do the same. They are stopping at the Masonic Hotel with Mr. Sheehan. The banquet to Mr, Sheehan to-morrow will be in no way political, nor will there be any political utterances thereat. The Mayoralty election resulted in Fookes being returned. Nelson, Thursday. D’Urville Island Copper Mine shares, paidup, are inquired for here at forty shillings. No sellers. Westport, Thursday. There was a keen contest for tho Mayoralty here yesterday. The result is as follows : Haselden, 67 ; Munson, 66 ; one informal vote alone obviating a tie. Lyttelton, Thursday. The body of a man named Charles H. Allan was found washed up on. the breakwater today; he has been missing from November 19. Christchurch, Thursday. A largely attended meeting was held tonight in the Provincial Council Chamber of persons interested in the formation of a Canterbury Temperance League, to consist jointly of abstainers and non-abstainers. A large number of clergymen and others interested in the cause of temperance attended, and tho society was formed and a committee of management nominated. The management will be largely in the hands of ministers and congregations. At the Police Court to-day there were two charges preferred against prisoners for indecent exposure. One of tho accused was discharged for want of sufficient evidence, the other case was adjourned. At a meeting of tho Chamber of Commerce this afternoon it was stated that there was still a very great scarcity of trucks between Lyttelton and Christchurch, in consequence of the great increase in the local trade. Dunedin, Thursday. Iu consequence of the large number of small fires which have recently happened in this province, the insurance companies have resolved to reinstate the buildings instead of paying for them. A testimonial is to bo presented to R. H. Leary on the occasion of his retiring from tho position of Mayor of Dunedin. A deputation from tho City Council waited on Mr. Macandrew to-day with reference to establishing a public market for Dunedin. They represented that the cost would be from £20,000 to £30,000, and wished to know if the Government would be iu favor of the Council leasing the Southern Market Reserve to a company which w6uld be willing to establish a market. Mr. Macandrew said that he had no objection provided the public interest would be protected. In reply to a deputation from Port Chalmers, ho said there soon would be a sufficient supply of trucks, as contracts for 2000 were out. At a meeting of the Education Board to-day a letter from Mr. Hislop was read, stating that the Government had allotted Otago £19,000 out of the £IOO,OOO vote for school buildings. Tho secretary was instructed to communicate to Government tho regret of the Board that a larger sum had not been allotted to Otago. Invercargill, Thursday. At the adjourned meeting of the County Council to-day it was resolved that the agreement with Mr, R. B. Williams relative to the tramway in Invercargill and suburbs should bo signed and sealed forthwith. It was also resolved to hold a special meeting to consider the readjustment of the boundaries, the same being laid off disadvantageous^. At the Waste Lands Board the case of James Mclntosh, relative to his dispossession of a deferred payment section, on the plea of being a non-resident, was introduced, and adjourned to next meeting, when the recommendation of the commission, that the Board should consider the decision, will be gone into. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day G. M. Tapper, of the Waihawi Hotel, was fined £lO and costs, £2 10s., for selling liquor after hours. The Hon. Mr. Fisher and Mr. Logan left for Queenstown; to-day.