COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 399, 4 January 1890, Page 3

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OUB OWW COBBEBPOITDEKTB.)

Napier, last night. At a joint meeting of tbe Hospital Trustees and Charitable Aid Board this afternoon, paptain Thorpes Baker (Armed Constabulary) was appointed Secretary of both Boards, Steward of tbe Hospital, and Master of the Befuge, at a salary of £165. Dr Menzies is. to perform the duties of dispenser to both jnstitutionf, Wellington, last night The figures of the railway revenue are not ready, but it is believed that the holiday traffic has been well up to the mark all over the colony. During tbe period of tbe financial year that has elapsed, the returns show that the profit so far has been slightly above the ~H.M,S. Opal was docked at Lyttelton yesterday. She is the first man of war ever (looked there, 04x48V, last night. A man named Thos. Powell was accidentally killed on the railway line near Pukeuri on Wednesday afternoon. Dunedin, last night. At the inquest on the Ashwell family a prdict of accidentally burned was returned. Jt appeared that Ashweli, yonjor, anfl his Wife got out, but rushed into the b&ildjng to (rescue thaohiidren. The wife was suffocated pad the body wqs carried out by her husband, who was fearfully burned afld subsequently died. George Ashwell, a boy, saved his youngest sister by jumping out of the window with her. John H. Stephenson, son of the well known auctioneer, died this morning through inflammation of the bowels, resulting from a sold caught at the Tokomairire races. The aeaMsea Wa» an ardent athlete, representing th« provinee'in the football field on several