TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3703, 6 January 1891, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(United Press Association.)

Ohbistcuurch, January 5. It is rumored that an attempt will be made to upset the election of Mt Joyce for Akaroa, on the ground that all the polling places jn the district should have closed at the same hour instead of that at Lyttelton at 7 p.m. and others at 6. Timaru, January 5. The late rains have vastly improved the appearance of pastures already, and prospects of winter feed in grass and turnips are good. Auckland, January 5. The Herald says that the Inspector of the New Zetland Loan and Mercantile Agency Co : , Limited., has received advice from London that Mr Larkworthy has resigned his seat on the JJourd of that Company, and that Sir John G. Gorst, Q.C., M.P., and Mr H. J. Bri&tow have joined the Board of Directors iu Londou. At a meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Garrett Bros., the question was raised as to whether the executors under the will of the late It, Garrett, a former partner, hftd a right tq vote in regard to the disposal of the estate. The meeting was adjourned in order that legal opinion may be obtained on the matter, GI3WtN«, January &.

Tiie outter Venus, 88 tona, after being one month stuck in the river at Tologa Bay, stranded on the bench off the bar. If the weather is fine she may i>e got off at high spring tides in a fortnight's time. TyAHE.s, January 6,

A petition was on Saturday lodged with the Returning Officer by Mr W. Fraser, ex-roeniber for the Thames, against the return of Mr Allen for Te Aroha electorate. Particulars are not yet known,

Dunedjn, January D, By the revaluations of the selections in Otago tor the year under the Selector's Revaluation Act, the capital value of 434 holdings of Crown lands has been reduced from L1G5,183 to L 96.080. All the berths have been taken for the Tarawera's first Sounds Excursion.