TELEGRAPHIC.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 5 October 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

TBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH;] [Fbom: oub own Comucspoirp bnt.,l Christchurch, Monday 3 A co-operative land society hi_^ been formed here to obtain freehold on new principle of paying half a crown a week for tbree years ; the ide* has been eagerly taken up, and suitable btocks of land in yartous t-nburbs bave been placed at the disposal of the association , October i , At a meeting of promoters of the

railway to Westland yea erd iy, the Chairman staled , that 7000 shares had already been applied for ; a public meet ing will be held next week for the pur» pose .-)f urging itnon the public necessity of energetiertllv,.«uppqrting the scheme The Hon E. Bichardson opens the Canterbury electoral campaigo on Tlmrsday nest, when lte will address the electors of Lyttelton Hokitika, October 3 Grifborne lias issued hi§ farewell ad« dress to the Totara electors ; he concluded by saying that as private affairs requiring his temporary* absence from the colony will probably prevent his rejurn iij time to attend at meeting o( next Parliament j it is not his intention to offer himself a9 a candidate at the approaching elec' ion I\. C. Beid announces himself as a .j&iifi-idate for*tiie . A^^-^tika district DuNEDtN, October 3 The Colonial;' Secretary,' who arrived here on Baturday, has stated in answer to enquiries that (Htiing and Lotteries Bill comet into force on Ist November not in J_moary as is generally. b»l ipved With ftfefcnee 4o the Adelaide tele* gram, -statiac t^ti^jMr^augm^J^d penny's Exhibition ; the Colonial Sucre* tary had received a"t el egr am from th? Premier, stating that all Government proposed was to make Exhibition build* ing, in whatever city it was selected, a bonded store Oliver is likely to stand for Eoslyn, also Bathgate Wsiti ngton, Ootober 4 Intelligence from the front contains nothing new; Government bare received information that Te Whiti disclaims the warlike interpretations placed upon his late speech, but continues in opposition in the matter oi fencing, but Govemmept still sanguine of peaceful adjust* ment of the difficulty