COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 379, 19 November 1889, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(from ovb own correspondents.)

Napier, last night. At the last sittings of the Bankruptcy Court here the Deputy Official Assignee made application to the Chief Justice that certain payments made by Kinross (before the bankruptcy) to liobjohns and Co. and to Richardson and Co. be declared preferential, and that those amounts be refunded. The Chief Justice decided against the application, and the Assignee appealed. The Court of Appeal to-day gave judgment reversing the decision of the Chief Justice, A considerable amount is involved in the decision.

Wellington, last night. The Wellington Racing Club’s Spring Meeting commenced on Saturday last. The weather was cold and threatening, and the attendance about 800. The totalisator put £1,521 through, and paid a sensational dividend of £BO 12s on Clyde, who won the Grandstand Handicap by a bare head, On the second day Ariel won the hurdle race by six lengths, paying a dividend of £4 Bs.

The Education Department has procured specimens of penmanship, drawing, needlework, mapping, etc., from various Native Schools in the North and South Islands, and which will be forwarded to the Dunedin Exhibition by steamer this afternoon. The collection is a very large one and some excellent work is shown.

Dunedin. last night. The deaths are announced of Mr Harvey, ex district Judge, and Mr Barnes ex Mayor of Dunedin.

George Hastle was killed at Dayhead yesterday, by a fall of earth in his claim. Mr John Roberts has been returned unopposed for the City Mayoralty.

The Governor visited the Exhibition today.

Two hundred pounds worth of plate glass, on the way to the Exhibition, was smashed to atoms in George street to day by an accident.

The Governor has given a silver medal to the Agricultural Association for the best carriage entile la the colony,

Auckland, last.nlght. Il has transpired that a ship’s boat, with " Countess Carnarvon ” on her stern, was washed up on the beach Pakan, near Whangaroa the first weal: in September. Close to it lay the dead body of a Newfoundland dog. TheHinemoa proceeds from Whangarei to the Three Kings, to make a complete search.