COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 361, 8 October 1889, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondents.')

Wellington, last night.

The steamer Hing Ghow, which leaves for Hong Kong to-morrow, takes 200 tons of Westport coal and 20 Chinese passengers. Mr C. J. Johnston will probably become a candidate for the Mayoralty.

The Evening Post offers thirty guineas in prizes for Jubilee poems. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court opened this morning before His Honor the Chief Justice. In his address to the Grand Jury His Honor said as the calendar was lengthy it had been agreed to put off till the 28th instant, the Napier cases arising out of the Broughton Donnelly trouble. The Wellington Educational Institute will recommend the following subjects for con sideration at the annual conference of the New Zealand Institute at Dunedin in January:—l. Providing a pension scheme for teachers. 2. That drawing be made a class subject instead of a pass subject. 3. That the syllabus drawn up at the conference at Nelson in 1888 be again brought specially under the notice of the Education Department. 4. That the sewing syllabus be revised.

Christchurch, last night.

The Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalary’s annual encampment commenced yesterday at the new show grounds. About 60 officers and men are under canvas.

Dunedin, last night.

The Carpenter’s Society refuse to take part in the Exhibition as a trade organisation, on account of the low wages paid to the workmen employed on the Exhibition buildings, but will attend as members of Friendly Societies.

James Peters, a newspaper runner, and lately employed as a gardener, committed suicide at Roslyn yesterday, by shooting himself with a gun. He had been very much depressed since his return from Sydney, whither he had gone on a visit to a relative three mouths ago. For about a month his mind was slightly unhinged. He was fifty years of age and was unmarried.