COLONIAL TELEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 375, 9 November 1889, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS

(FROM OtTB OWN CORRESPONDENTS.} Nartea, last night. Considerable preparations are bring ma '• t>r the reception of Mr Dillon io morrow, Tho O.imm ties will go out to tho steamer, and on landing the distinguished delegate will be driven to the Criterion Hotel. lie will aftu wirde ba shown round the town and ba driven into tha country. On Monday night he will address a public meeting at the Gaiety Theatre, which is expected to be crammed, Mr Cohen will occupy the chair. Tne lady sympathisers of Home Rule met last evening and decided to present Mr Dillon with an address and gold mounted greenstone arose, suitably inscribed, Wellington, last night Colonel Humphrey has been promoted to the position of Under Seoret«qr for defence. At the Appeal Court todegptero bankrupte named Ford appealed against the decision of Justice Denniston, who refused to grant a discharge on the Assignee reporting that the wages of men employed by the bankrupts had not been paid in full. The appeal WM allowed. At the M igistrate’s Court today the Corporation sued DootorAjTalters, rector of St Patrick's College, for <45 8s 7d, rates on College. Judgment waegiven for defendant on the ground that he was only head of th* teaching staff, and had no interest in the property. « Martov, last night. Joseph Monteith and his wife were charged yesterday at Bulls with receiving silver stolen from the Bank of New Zealand a year ago. Tho case was remanded for a w«*kFinlay, who stole the silver, and his wile, ?ave evidence implicating the two prisoners, t was deposed by Finlay that whan he was committed for trial at Marton he found an opportunity to slip into his wife’s hands a paper iuforming her where the silver had been put and she and the female prisoner removed it to Monteith's section, and prisoners used it. When discharged from gaol He asked for his share, and not getting it, laid an infot mation against Monteith. CußUTcqcacp, last night, The Metropolitan Show opened yesterday, in rainy weather, which cleared in the afternoon. Judging from the competing sheep draught horses, oattie, implements, dairy produce, etc., the general exhibits are not superior to last year's show, but the eompes tition was close in many cases.