TELEGRAPHIC. (From the Daily Southern Cross.) LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. Coromandel, Tuesday.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 239, 20 November 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC. (From the Daily South ern Cross.) LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. Coromandel, Tuesday.

The following was the state of the poll for the Provincial Council election :- Mr Cadnuan, 160 ; MrMcLcod, 107: m i jonty for Mr Oilman, 53. Great indignation was felt by nearly every ono here when it became known that the " Ring," comprising certain Toketea directors, hadl tent of the Challenger, at four 3. til , to bring down the miners' rights voters and swamp Cadman's chance. Much hustling occuired at the doors of the polling booths, and the boat arriving late only ten out or the thirty brought from the Thames polled. Mort than Unity would have been brought down, but it is said that MuLeodV men there had a difficulty in getting miners' n hts. After the declaration of the Doll Mr Cadman was chaired, amidst cheering. He addressed the electors, and congratulated them that they had saved themselves from the tyranny of, and the field from destruction by, certain Tokatea directors Three cheer* were given for the local journal. Charles Stevenson was arrested for the persona* rion of Wm Kelly. He was generously bailed out by two of Mr Cad man's supporters. Napier, Monday. The Government have decided to hold the next colonial pmo-finng at Napier. The tpot choicn it four miles from town— Tnr.iditle. The ground is lent by Mr Tiffen. A contract has been taken for £850, for the conduction • of a bndgo across the Ng.iruroo% to bri.ig the traffic of the SE district of th« province within ea*y access of the rail- \» ay. Several hundred thomand fwt of sawn timber is lying at S'venty-mile Bush auditing transit. The road is excellent, I but there is no haulage a> tillable. The price of timber is 17« per 100 feet. The contract was taken for £500 for sinking artesian wells along the railway 'me. Iwo thousand five hundred acre* of agricultural land, I adjoining Waipawa st-ition, forty miles from Napiur, are advertised for sale in December. It is now being laid off. j Mr Days, sub-contractor under Mr Brogden for the erection of bridges on the railway line, has ient an order to Fraser and Tinne, of Auckland, for a pile-driving engine. Tenders are called by the Superintendent for the reclamation of four aoes in a lagoon adjoining the proposed wharves and railway station lit Tort Aliariri The prospectus of a new journal has been issued to be published at Ouborno on January Ist. It is to be entitled the Poverty Bay Herald, bi-weekly, same sito at Hmeke't Bay Herald. A number of vnl liable Lincoln ram» and ewes and two Co:&wold rams hay.» amnd by Raiif.»tini ex Queen B«e. Wellington, Monday. The Divorce Court opened today. The Otngo case — Palmer v Palmer— -ha* ))^er^ set down for Wednesday next, being postponed. Dunodin, Monday. Tlio Union Shaping Company ii already in great farour. The xhare list of the Standard Insurance Company was throw n open to-flny A rush of Chinese lias taken place to the Switzer's district. The eirly-closin« movement is spreading. The master drapeib agree to close on Satur lay at six iv the winter, and at eight in the summer. Mr Yogel is expueted this week. Christcburch, Monday. The railway returns for the year ending September 30 shew an excess of receipts oter expenditure amounting to nearly £2,000. At Saturday* sheep sale, John Martin and McMaster of Wellington, Amos of Oamaru, R. Miller of Hswke'i Bay, and Hume o( WelUnton, were large purchasers. The Auckland cricketers who arrived on Friday were at practice today. Tne' general opinion is that the match will be a .good on*, btit that Canterbury will win. The match commences on Tuesday. A half-holiday ha* been proclaimed for Wednesday. The Piovuicial Council opened on Saturday. The Superintendent afternnrds gave a luncheon to the members. The Governor and Premier were invited a* guests. Ford and <Jo. held a large sheep mile on Saturday, principally from the flock of Sutton Brothers, Southland, to Tol- ! mie, of Duneditt One of Sutton Brothers' Lincoln rams brought £155. The total amount realised was about £2000. Arrangements will be made to hold an interprormcial [ steeplechase at~Waunate, in 1874. In the billiard match, Weston, the champion of Australia, j gave Crump, a local billiard-marker, 500 in 1 000, for £25 a-side. The latter won by 64 points. Time, 3} hours.