COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 374, 7 November 1889, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondents.") Wanganui, last}night. Last'Monday a" lad named gßrillon, aged ten, who had been fishing on the wharf opposite the railway station, came across the rails, unseen by the men who were shunting the railway trucks, and was knocked down, a wheel going hh instantaneous death.

A. Filmer, clerk of||the C»ty?Oouncil|and Mangawhero Road Board, has disappeared, there being deficient moneys in both oodiek. It wasfsuppoaed he would go on by Auckland to catch the San Francisco steamer, but he was caau|by a iettler|yoslsrday morMing,

Xitwm. iMtnteht. Warner and Co. « Hall of Commerce was partially burned on Monday night. The fire brigade worked well, and succeeded in saving the place from entire but damage to the stock is A statement has been made that the terrace at Rotomahsna Is forming again, but Mr Mltchelson heard nothing about it during his recent visit to Rotorua. Hs says fern has sprung up on the deposit of mud, and many trees which were stripped of leaves and branches are now putting out foliage. The whole country, however, still wears a desolate aspect. The'-bed of Lake Rotomahuna, which was so enlarged by the eruption ns to take in the little.lake Waimakarlri close by is rapidly filling with water, but has not yet found an outlet. There is now a depth in the lake of at least 100 feet of water.