COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 425, 6 March 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

VERY APPROPRIATE RECEPTION FOR THE LAWYER. AUCKLAND. Last night. Arrived—Wainui, from Samoa. Nathaniel Wataon was found drowned in tho harbor yesterday. The Hauhau natives assembled at Kihikihi yesterday, decorated in war paint, to receive M Napier, solicitor for Te Kooti, and who got Judge Connolly to quash the order made against Te Kooti for unlawful assembling near Gisborne in'March la". Major General Molyniu? has had hl} portmanteau robbed ot a tetter of credit for issued by Meeere Cox and Co., of London, in favor of Major General Molyneauv, also three £5 Bank ot England notes, and four £5 Bank of Australasia notes. Bush fires round Hamilton have done much damage, and destroyed timber and flex, and tgauT a h 4 in Haltanui bush. juwt night. Johnstone, tha prisoner who escaped from the gaol on Friday last, WM oapturod up the Wangahw Bi’® 1 ’ >•»•* n *B ht b ? Conetabla Stacey, Who hadbegn on the track for some day’- ' ’ ’ ’ At the Supreme Court Qhanaa Jewell was sentenced to nine mouthe’ imprlaonfiaent for assaulUn'g John Tiernoy. Henry Baird and Frank Reeve pleaded guilty to a Charge of uttering a forged cheque, and were remanded for inquiry by the Probation Officer. Hugh Gallagher got ten days for attempted aulelde. Inquiries arc to #5 tn We U th hiS sanity

CHRISTCHURCH. Last night. The Sweating Commission was continued last evening, when two female shop assiitants gave evidence. They complained ot having to stand from nine a.m. to aix p.m., with an hour's interval for lunch, and on Saturdays from nine a.m. to 9 p.m., with only a few minutes' interval. They stated that their health wae seriously affected by long atanding, and that they knew of girls who had a jffered Lorn blooi essnets inconsequence. Frederick Jones and a woman with whom he had been cohabiting, at South Bridge, named Jane Lee, are in gaol charged with grossly illtreating and bnating two ot the woman’a children by her first husband, now dead. DUNEDIN. Last night. The cheap excursion. l ! brought fu ly 4000 people to Dunedin during the past two days. Tho authorities of the University dtQ ne to authorise the publication of the honors list of the examinations, but the results have leaked out. and are as follows :—M. A., with honors: J. M. Beattie, Miss MoLandress t Miss Duncan, R O. Whettip, R. G. Whittier Joseph Moss, W. Gill, A- E. S. Palmer, W, Riddle. First section 8.A.: Kate Mos*’, Miss White, Miss Ross, A. Crawford, A» Burnside, G King, W. McPhee, W. Anderson. Female B A.: Watt T. Morgan. The Chancellor announced that the Bowen prise was awarded to Curtis Crowther Plaute, of Canterbury College ; Andrew Ross Kirk, also of College, Second Proximi A ccessit. A young man named Alf Bryan was drowned in the Tangahua river yesterday while bathing.