LAST NIGHT'S NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Grahamstown, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1339, 29 January 1881, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Grahamstown, Last Night.

Tub Advertiser objects to the proposal for handing over the Thames electors to Waikato and Coromandel in redistribution of representation, alid suggests as a fair basis the division of the Thames district into three electorates.

New Plymouth, Last Night. Tarmald KeraUV* Maori - correspondent writes ; Natives released from DtiuecUu gaol have fajth iv Te Whiti as ever, and say' that shortly all land, from Te "Whiti cliff to "Waitara will come back to them. , . . The natives who have oouiebacls' rom

Parahaka say that when the Governor airives iv Taranaki he will pay Te Whiti a visit. The native prisoners taken to Auckland and released in -"> aikato have made their way back again. They arrived yesterday, and will join their released comrades. The natives are still busy cutting wheat to be free for Te Whiti 's meeting on 17th February. The natives at Mokau say that the steamer Hannah Mokau has been 17 miles up the river, which is five more than any ves&el had ever been before.

Dunedin, Last Night. Dehil and Davidsons flour-mill, Ofcepopo, was burned this morning. Insurance on Stock, £800; Building, £3000; machinery, £1500 ; divided as follows : National, £1500; Union, £500; South British, £1500 ; United, £500 ; Victoria, £500; Standard, £500; New Zealand, £800.

Florida has a peculiar fly called the '•horse guard," whch looks like a hornet. This fly follows the horses and catches the horse flies and faettlea on them, but does not bite the animals. Imitation sealskin* are made most successfully in Belgium out of rabbit-skins by a peculiar process of preparation. Recently ten thousand rabbits weie killed on an Ebsex farm and the akins sent to Belgium. Australia is the land o£ contrariety in regard to animal and vegetable life. It ha- black swans, theduok-mole fish which climb trees, oheeries with the stone outfeide, veritable wooden pears, and a fly which catches spiders. To carry a letter under an umbrella in Buiraah is to accord to it loyal honouis. Eight golden umbrellas are properly carried over a king's letter. Tut! result of the last Derby race was telegraphed from London to Now York m the short space of twenty-five seconds.