SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (Our own Correspondents.)

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 570, 15 January 1876, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (Our own Correspondents.)

Auckland, Friday. Produce sales to-day — Cheese, sd, 7£d ; bacon ild, ll|d; potatoes, ss, 6s ; fowls, 2s 31, 2s lid; turkeys, ss, 6s 3d; potatoes, £4, £6 ton. The " Star " Mercer correspondent writes : — " Tlie body of the man Barker, who is supposed to have drowned himself, has been lying on bank of Waipa, about two miles below Whata Whata. for last two days. Report sa)-s the Alexandra police have been informed but refuse to kike steps in the mutter, it being out of their district Meantime the body is b«'ing carefully watched by a faithful little dog, supposed to have been the properly of deceased. " Williams, a foreigner, recently liberated from the asylum, sat down in Queen-street t')-day, drew a large sheath knife, and laying lus tobacco pouch on the pavement threatened to np any one up who touched it. He was secured by the police, Messrs Russell and Devore have received instructions to proceed re bribery cases in connection with the Eaat Coast election. Payments of twenty pounds to one native and of twenty-five pouiuls to two chiefs for their vote and influence are said to be capable of proof by documentary evidence.

GISBORNE. Farmers here estimate their loss from recent rams at i.7,0U0.

Fort Chalmers. - Lawson, a seaman, hud his leg smashed iaarvrool^rtJeSatXiuiiediD. [kladiiocowl

We have'made enquiries but no one up here knows Jiim.— Kd. WXJ The " Newcastle Pilot" announoes the marriage .ot Altred Anderaon to Mdlle. Do Murska. The statement is doubted. Grevmouth.

Woolcock and Kennedy are elected. For Ashley— J. E. Brown, the old member, is returned. Wellington. The beoTcen cable has been picked up by the Luna and baoyed. Kgaruawahia, Friday, 3 p.m. The inquest on the body found in the Waipa, supposed to be that of Horace Barker, is adjourned for evidence of identification.