COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 426, 8 March 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AU OKLA. ND. Last n|ght. Mr D. O'Neill Flood, of the t|»nk of New Zailand, has been transferred from Han)i(tou to Napier. The Premier is about to make a tour through the South Island for the benefit ot hie health. A wild bullock, while being driven from Onehunga saleyards yesterday, charged a number of people and gored a boy rather be.dly. The animal was subsequently shot. The Bupipuhl boundaries as published in the Gazette ' include the whole of the two counties of Wbangarel and Bay of Islands under the Alining Act, Consequently the Waste Lande Commissioner- has . had to withdraw the whole ot the lands open for settlement there, including the'lands] adrettiaod for sale lest Thuredeyt

WELLINGTON. Last night. The Hon Messrs Mitchalson and Rioliardson leave for North on Monday next to vis-t Napier, Wairoa, Gisbornn. and Auckland, in connection with the affaire of the E-at Coast Settlement Company, which are, it a said, in a most involved condition. Tha natives who are interested in land which was ceded to the Company view with dismay, it is reported, the prospoot nf a total loss, which would leave some 20,000 of them landless, and are anxious to find a modu» vivendi. They urge that the land ia worth sufficient, if taken over by the Goverom-nt, to pay off all claims upon it and leave them considerable reserves and yield a profit to the Government. Mr Richardson will look into the matter from the Minister of Lsnda point of view, and Mr Mitchelson will enquire into the Maori aspect of the affair.

CHRISTCHUBCH. Last night. Henry Kirkland, a driver, has been kilted at Culverden by the upsetting of a dray. Mr Warner, engineer, obtained judgment against the New Brighton Pier Company in the R.M. Court, for £49, oom mission on estimated cost of the first «ection of a pier for which tenders were invited, but which the directors afterwards decided not to construct.

Mr Justice Dennistrn diemteaed the appeal against the judgment of the R M., who has decided that an order under the Destitute Persons Act for the maintenance of illegitimate children could not bo made retrospective. DUNEDIN. Last night, A man nimed Dennis Daley has been killed by falling off a dray, a wheel passing over him. The body of a man named Michael McGrath has been found in a creek. The man bad been in the delirium tremens. William H .lmes, who fell off an express train on February 20, has died in the hospital. Whyte and Kerr, grocers, were charged at the Police Court with importing drained 1 oranye peel, subject to a duty of 41 per lb,, " as orange rinds in brine. The Commissioner of Customs sued for a penalty of zBtOO. As the Customs were not prepared the case was adjourned to Thursday next. Mr Burns has resigned the Inspectorship of Mines, owing to ill health. In the interprovincial cricket match Canterbury v. Dunedin, the formtr has concluded its first innings for 71.