TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1632, 27 November 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FKOM OHR OWN OOKUr,XI'ONI>BNT.)

Wellington, 26,

The Mayoralty eVtioii y«-stH(l;iy resulted in the rettr v of Mi A. W. Br >wn, with 306 votes.

Nearly 1,700 ratepayers voted out of a possible 2.200.

The weather is beautifully fine for to morrow's races, there is every prospect • of a successful three days tneetinsf.

Trout is very plentiful in the Hutt river this season. Yesterday a splendid specimen was hooked weigfTfhg over 121»».

Mr William Holims, for many years connected with the Customs died here yesterday, after a short illness. Deceased who was only 26 years of a«e was a prominent cricketer and athlete, and highly respected.

The Union Company who commence their Frisco mail contract on December Bth, have decided to run their new l«nt MfarOH riifht. through to Frisco, instead of transhipping at Honolulu.

The Terawhiti reefs have taken another spurt as very good prospects are reported, and this morning the Governm<Mit steamer Hinernoa conveyed to Terawhiti a quantity of crushing plant.

The Minister of Mines, Mr Larnach, and a lar^e ntt..iber of^persous iuteres ted in the field were passengers.

James Wilson, a seaman belonging to the barque Helen Denny, now in port, Ml off the wharf to-day and was drowned. The body was recovered in a few minutes but 100 late to restote life.

CHRI6TCHURCH 26.

The Industrial Association at a meeting last ni«ht passed the following resolution:— "Th:it the attention of the Government be culled to the fact that the timber for the show cases at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition has been shipped is unsuited for the purpose, owing to the short tinie given for 6'»taiiiinj, f it, and this committee reconmifcnds that w«ll seasoned and carefully selected timber be obtained, the necessary time bein* given for procuring it, and that the work of making cases be done here. A Royal Commissionyr having decided that all raw material shall be made in the Colony "

Auckland, 26.

The police this morning exhuuied the body of a child buried nt Howick, in order lo treat to surgical examine-

Lion.

The parents are named SntclinV, and the child is alleged to have received foul play.

N a pier, 26.

At the sale of Riverslev, (Hastings town extension), there was an euor-

niiins attend;' nee 6f bikers, and hy noon 82 sections averaging a quarter acre, broug'it from t260 to iHtOQ each, being pn average of filCOp**r section. The B<'e will last all day and be con-

tinued to morrow.