COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 402, 11 January 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(fboji orrs own correspondents.") CnnisTCHtrnoH, last night. The Hospital Board has approved the employing of ladies as probationary nurses, and the House Committee are considering a scheme for giving effect to the proposal. A boy named Macey, seven years old, fell into the water off the steamers’ wharf at Lyttelton yesterday. A sailor of the Opal, named Henry Wall, jumped in and rescued the boy, keeping him afloat till both were hauled out with a rope. At the R.M. Court this morning George Alexander and James Cotter were committed for trial for robbery with violence. Auckland, last night. A special meeting of the Bank of New Zealand was held yesterday to consider the proposed removal cf the head office to London. The Chairman made a lengthy explanation, and moved :—“ That the head office and general management of the Bank be removed to London, and that the Directors take such steps as they may deem fit to remove the same accordingly.” Wellington, last night. The Eastern Extension Company has nearly completed the duplicate cable, and will be ready for laying it at an early date. The passengers by the Grafton, from the West Coast, on Thursday night, found a lunatic in their midst. The man announced he was Jack the Ripper, and for a while created terror. An opportunity occurring the man was seized and, after a general melee, secured. Dunedin, last night. At the Queenstown races Trinolite won the Hurdles with Secretary second. Don Cffisar won the Queenstown Handicap, Trion second, and Pennant third. A party of six local tradesmen who Invested in one of the Sydney consultations have received advice that they have drawn the winner in the Carrington Stakes, and will share £4725. The Tarawera, with 84 passengers, sailed yesterday afternoon on the first excursion trip to the Sounds, The Educational Institute yesterday adopted a report requesting the Education Department, and Education Boards, to issue instructions to Inspectors defining the syllabus, and prescribing the method of examination, James Durie, traveller for Thomson and Co., mrated wafer manufacturers, has been accidentally killed near Wedderburn, He leavoi a wife and family of seven,