COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 355, 24 September 1889, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(from oub own correspondents ') Napier, last night. The boy Walter Jas. Hutton was brought up today at the R.M. Court, charged with stabbing Johnson Alexander Blom with a pocket knife, and he was committed for trial, bail being allowed. It is feared that Blom will suffer from rupture all his life as the result of the wound inflicted by Hutton. Captain Preece, R.M., again refused to admit Mrs Kyle, charged with manslaughter, to bail. The Maori will case in which 'Princess’ Alice is defendant, still drags on at the Supreme Court. It will probably be finished tomorrow night. Wellington, last night. Captain Harvey, well known in the coasting trade, and at present io Australia, has purchased the steamer Queen cf the South for the New Zealand coastal trade. She leaves Sydney for Wellington, via Newcastle, today. The Queen of the South is 198 gross, and 121 tons net measurement. Mr McGregor, a gentleman of long ex perience in the fibre trade at Home, and who has been touring the colony, states that flax can be made equal to Irish or Russian lint if properly dressed, but our machines are only equal to those used half a century ago in Scotland and Ireland. He says that with proper appliances the fl*x industry could be raised to the largest of any in New Zealand. Ho suggests that the millers should form an association for the purpose of developing the trade, and that the Government should assist by getting an expert to conduct experiments as to the system of dressing the fibre, and the different makes of flax should be properly branded. Christchurch last night. A six roomed house in Ferry Road was burnt down on Saturday morning shortly after the occupant had gone to work in his bake house. The house was insured in the Standard for £250, and the furniture for £lOO in the Colonial. About £2OO worth of furniture was saved.

The annual football match, Otago v Canterbury, was played on Saturday afternoon, and resulted in a win for Otago by nine points (three goals) to one try, Auckland, last night.

A French gum digger named Francis, was drowned lon Saturday while proceeding in an open boat to a field where he had been working. The weather was so squally that his mates would not accompany him and half an hour after he left, the boat capsized in the squall. The football team arrived at Onehunga yesterday, and were received and welcomed by a number of footballers who went from town in brakes. New Plymouth, last night. The Gairloch still lies on the North spit at Waitsra river, but has been hauled closer to the channel. Captain McArthur is confident he will get her off at the spring tides. In the football match Auckland versus Taranaki the former woa by two goals to nil.

Dunedin, last night, The entries for the Home Industries section of the Exhibition for Otago aggregate 1000 square feet of floor space and 2000 feet of wall space. All attempts to do something for the Agnews, the notorious couple who pester our public men, have failed. Some £27 was collected, and with £2O given by the Government was sufficient to pay arrears of interest on their mortgage ana for the next twelve months as well as supplying them with a quantity of goodsand bedding, which were to be sent to the land owned by them, and some £5 cash to be handed over to them. They at first agreed to this, although they talked about being swindled out of £2OO, and they signed a document and were promised enough to buy a cow or two, but at the last moment they declined to go on their land without £2OO was given them, and those who interested themselves in the couple appear determined now to leave them to their fate. James Shand, a well known resident of Taieri, has been missing since Friday. He was in town on Wednesday, when he obtained some documents from the Official Assignee, and then returned to his farm at Abbotsford. He was then in a depressed stale of mind and complained that he had suffered of late from insomnia. He was last seen on Friday morning by some farm employees, to whom he spoke in his usual manner. His hat, coat, and stick were found on Saturday on the river bank, about a quarter of a mile from the farm, but nothing has since been seen of him, though a diligent search has been made. Much anxiety is felt by his many friends.