COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 406, 21 January 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondents.) Auokdsnd, last night. A sculling race for ladies has beau added to the Jubilee Regatta programme. There has been a decrease in the numbar ct applicants for charitable aid. The flax mills appear to have absorbed a great deal of surplus labor, The leaders in the early closing movement have issued a notice requesting all classes of the oommnnity to assist by shopping bstora 6 p.m. on five days of the week and before 9 p.m, on Saturdays. Sir George Grey, who is at Waiwera, suffering from a severe cold, has given £2O to the jubilee fund. Donations are coming in rapidly. Country people are already arriving in town in large numbers for the feativities. Captain Samuel Frederick Sewell, who resides at St. Stephen's Avenue, Parnell, blow out hie brains with a rifle st 7 this morning. He was formerly io the carries of the East India Company. He leaves a wife and family. He had been suffering from melancholic mania. Welmnoton, last night, Mr Hislop, Minister of Education, returned from the south yesterday afternoon. Stephenson, who rows Hearn on the 2nd prox., arrived from Sydney by the Wakatipa last evening, accompanied by hia trainer, Neil Mattereon, Sir John Hill and Captain Russell have been selected to represent New Zealand at the Federal Conference at Melbourne next month. The Wellington Rowing Club, which at present can boast that it has ths champion orew, has accepted a challenge from the Poverty Biy Rowing Club. The race will come off about the time of the Hearn and Stephenson match, Dunemn, last night. The body of orderly Ooombes, who died on Friday, was buried yesterday af'ernooo with military honors, there being a large attend, anoe of local volunteers and shooting representatives, and the streets of Dunedin wars thronged with people.