SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1127, 13 September 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[PRESS AOEXCY.I " AUCKLAND, last night. The Ma tad en returns aie not all m, bat give Colbeck a mnjority of 184., Total?, Colbeck, 390 j D«irgamlle, 246 ; Bruce, 162. The Bay of Islands totals are : — Lundon, 289; Williams, 149; Kaline, llfc; McLeod, 41. GRAHAMSTOWN, last night. Mr MqCullough, Mayor of Grahanistown, announces himself a candidate for Sir Georga Grey's seat. THE .OHINEMU.RI MAORI OUTRAGE. OftINEMURI, Thursday. News from I'aeroa to-day, says the discussion is degenerating into a debate upon the title to the land, and questions of ancestry, going back 300 years, are being brought up. The question of the shooting is being forgotten altogether. The ..meeting is likely to last several days longer yet. THAMES, Thursday. There are likely to bo a number of candidates for the seat which will be rendered vacant through Sir George Grey being elected for Christchurch. Messrs Rowe and McGowan are already m the field, and probably Messrs Ekrenfrie/1 and Brodie will be brought forward. OHIiVEMURI OUTUAE. GRAHAMSTOWN, yesterday. A pigeongram, from Paeroa, states that all witnesses have been oxaminod. The native committee are now summing 1 up evidence, at tbc Criterion Hotel. The verdict is to be declared to assembled tribes this afternoon. Judgement is ex pected against Ngatehiko, with recommendation to mercy, but blaming Ngatikoe for allowing surveyors to go on the land, well knowing the feeling of the Ngate. hiko. " WELLINGTON, last night. Parliament will be opened on the 24th, as there is no present intention of further prorogation. NELSON, last night. Mr Gibbs (Oppositionist) is elected for Collingwood. NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday. This afternoon Mr E. T. Smith run, at Vivian's foundary, two railway carriage wheels from Taranald iron-sand. They will be sent to the Sydney Exhibition. The wheel bears the inscription : " Hon. John Macandrew, Minister of Public Works, from Taranaki Iron-sand." The metal ran rapidly, and the castings were a success. A large number of persons were present to witness the process. JNEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday. The rail wad carriage wheels, rails, &c, run from iron-sand yesterday, were found, on the mould being opened this morning, t to be a great success, not a flaw being i found m either of them. [ NAPIER, Wednesday. R. P. Giffard, an old Hawke's Bay I settler, brother to the Solicitor-General of England, and a relative of Baron Griffard, . dropped down dead on his road home from Clive after recording his vote there. The ' body was picked up by Grindell and others, and taken to Parndon Hotel. It was not then known that he was dead, [ and Dr Hitchens being m the train that was passing at the time, the train was ' stopped, and the body examined, when he ascertained life was extinct. The cause of death is supposed to have been apoplexy, but deceased had been drinking heavily • for some time past. • HAWKE'S BAY, Thursday. • CLIVE ELECTION. Ormond, (Opposition), 505 ; Sheehan, 360. Majority for Ormond, 145. WELLINGTON, Wednesday, The Hon. Wi Parata and several other natives have left Otaki for Parihaka, to attend the monthly meeting there on the 1 8th inst. It is believed they will do their ! best to persuade Te Whiti to discontinue . exciting the Maoris on to further acts of rebellion. CHRTSTCIIURCH, Thursday. CHRISTCHURGH ELEJTiON. Grey, 1315 ; Andrews, (Greyite), 1250 ; Stevens, (Opposition), 1250, elected. Richardson, 1227, defeated. DUNEDIN, Wednesday. The debris of the late fire has now been thoroughly searched, but no more bodies have been found. The Coroner's inquest will commence to-morrow. It was stated that the only brick walls of the building were the exterior walls, and that inside there was nothing but wooden partitions and intricate passages. These reports met with general acceptance, and strong was the public feeling:, that a candidate for the Council was asked if he considered the councillors or Mr Ross ought to be indicted for manslaughter for allowing such a mantrap, as it was termed, to exist. The qnesion was loudly applauded. The particulars are, that there was one straight passage through the building, three brick partitions, and that all the other partitions were of lath and plaster.