NAPIER.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3320, 13 August 1879, Page 2

NAPIER.

Last night. fi Mr Sutton announces his intention to

stand for re-election. Mr Bussell will issue an address to-morrow. Eichard D, Maney, a Wairoa storekeeper, is going to stand in the liberal interest, but supports Denominational Education, and will receive the Catholic rote. John Buchanan, who was defeated by Sutton at the last general election by a small majority, will probably stand as a Liberal in the secular interest, bat it ii not expected that he will support Sir George Grey personally. It is not likely that Ormond will be opposed for dive, though an attempt will probabaly be made to induce Sheehan to contest the seat.

, The explanation of the absence of Mr Bees' name from the Electoral Roll is that he neglected to sign the claim he sent in, though all the other particulars were filled in correctly. DeLatour was nearly in the same position, his first claim not being signed, but he found out his mistake in time, and sent in a second claim. Colonel Whitmore and Mr Sheehan are expected here on Friday.

Dr Spencer exhibited last evening at the meeting of the Philosophical Institute a nest of the spider wasp or mason bee which he had received from Euatauiwha. It is the habit of these wasps to build their nests underneath houses like martins do at home. They digest the material with which they perform their building operations and then reproduce it and construct cells somewhat in the form of those in a beehive. The specimen shown by Dr Spencer was contained in the top cannister, which had evidently been unlised for the occasion by the spider wasp. Several of the cells had larvae in them, and the remains of spiders could also be detected by an examination with the aid of a glass.