COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 423, 1 March 1890, Page 3

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AN OUTSIDE CRITIC ON GISBORNE HARBOR. AUCKLAND STOCK MARKET. AUCKLAND. Last night. Blight rain showers fell this afternoon This io the first since Christmas, and th •onntry is considerably burnt up. . The late Oaptsin Somerville could not be ■buried by the Boman Catholic Church, to Wiich ho belonged, because he was a FreeThe South British Insurance Company have tabled from Melbourne stating that they have not loot a penny by Nathan’s big fire there. The New South Wales cricketers are playing g return match with Auckland to day. Sydney has lost three wickets for 80 so far. Ao a roenit ;ot the success of their running in the Bay of Plenty trade on the East Coa«i, the Northern Steamship Company of Auckr land are contemplating procuring an additional steamer for the service, to ba of aroiclaes build and speed. The vessel wi’l bo a steel steamer. It sufficient inducement offers Gisborne might bo included in the company’s

Mr Buckland, in bio weekly report, states that dairy cattle, near calving, wen plentiful; bidding was slow, and many were passed Those sold brought from £3 5s to £4 5s each. Store cattle, particularly quiet cows, Were in better demand. Fat cattle were in usual numbers; steers were worth 5s each bettor, but cows at late values. Calves were short of requirements, prices being in favor Of sailers. Sheep were in moderate supply at Ute vsUmo—Tyro tooth wethers 10s, four tooth lie fid each; lambs plentiful— store iambs is to fis, fat lambs 7s to 10s each, Pigs wore scarce, porkers brought from 15s to “Inquisitor" writes to the Star, asking what will bo the future use of what he calls tbs long concrete trail building at Gisborne, He says:—lf the good cltiaens St Gisborne wish to roolalm part of the bay they ought to say so at once, and not keep tantalising sailors with promises of no more tolling and pitching about in an open roadstead, showing them what a firm breakwater they an building ashore, a breakwater that might just as well have been on top of Mount Cook as where it is for ail ths good it Will do, if we except the reclaiming at the fad.: determination of nt to throw open the Pubipuhl land i>Ui < /bring Act has caused a great surprise as Wa. ,:»rei, as |h> people had been told by jjinisfc;, that menu! regulations wen to be framed u >h a view to granting leasee. Quite tv ’-ty companies had Men formed and had prospectors in the forest, sod many have disooveredgoodnMfa. A quarter share in the Prospectors’ claim changed bands early this week at £l5O, and On Tuesday £450 was offered and refuted for a half ebare. The shares in the Tsiuatawhanau syndicate, who bold 1900 acres of freehold on the boundary M Pabipubi, an quoted at the Same value as Prospectors*. - A company is being formed in Melboitoe with t caplul tl £409,M8 to bpcntoMlkki bttoh,