New Zealand Telegrams.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 274, 16 March 1889, Page 3

New Zealand Telegrams.

AUCKLAND. The Government have resolved to call for fresh tenders for the Onehunga Court house, which the Auckland builders refused to tender for because kauri timber was not specified. A meeting attended by 800 natives and several settlers was opened at Waitangi, Bay of Islands, on Wednesday. Sir Frederick Whitaker attended on behalf of the Government. Consideration of the question of the Whangarei or Poroti land dispute and of the imposition of a dog tax was deferred till the forthcoming meeting at Orakei. No definite business was transacted. The annual meeting of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society was held on Wednesday. Mr R. C. Barstow was re-elected president. There is a balance of £129 5s 2d in hand, , The price of flour has been increased £1 per ton, Christchurch. The number of cases of outdoor relief granted by the Charitable Aid Board in February amounted to 475, being 20 less than in January, and 26 more than in February, 1888. At the meeting of the Board Dr Guthrie, the medical officer to the Orphanage, denied that children in any way suffered through having to go too long between tea •nd breakfast as stated by the lady visitors. He complained that his instructions not to Mnd children to church on account of diphtheria in Lyttelton had been ignored. It appeared that in July, 1888, he requested that the children might not go to church, and they discontinued attending until January last, When a lady visitor recommended that they should go, and they were sent without notification being given to Dr Guthrie. There is one case of diphtheria in the Orphanage now. The patient is isolated, and is doing wall. Then were 46 entries received for the Christchurch regatta at Lake Forsyth. Dunxdin

The navigating officer of the Arawa denies • reported race with the s.s. Rotomahana from Hobart. He says that the Arawa name on at her usual rate of speed, no attempt being made to increase it. Had there been any racing the Arawa would have left the other boat out of sight, and as it was, he says, the Rotomahana was not in sight when the Arawa cleared Foveaux Straits. Afr Bplpmon, chairman of the Benevolent Trustees, stated to-day that while the outdoor relief was fairly managed he believed they were sometimes imposed on through want of strict inspection, He quoted a letter from * Borough Council, which spoke of a ipsn who had been on the books for three years, and was described as paralysed all that time, but it now appeared that he had been driving a cart, and was well able to work. Another man who was said to be in the hospital had been in Melbourne for the last three months. Mr Solomon therefore gave notice that an inspector be appointed.