COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 433, 25 March 1890, Page 3

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. The Rev. Father Hallsom died suddenly at Ponaunby yesterday. Two thousand tons of flax and grain go to Ne v York by the barque Australia. Mr James Mills, Union Steamship Company’s manager, left, for London to day The Sweating Commission commences business in Auckland to morrow.

Mr Henry Varley did not arrive by the mail Steamer, but is coming by the Te Anau. A serious outbreak of typhoid fever has occurred at Avondale Lunatic Asylum through defective drainage. The steamer Mariposa, which left this afternoon for San Francisco, had not accommodation for all the flax and fruit waiting for her. The Bank of New Zealand to day confirmed the resolution relative to the removal of the directorate. The chairman said he had not taken steps to fill up the vacancy caused by the death of Mr Taylor, because his own existance was probably a matter of days only. Sydney papers to band by the mail steamer state that Carbine is favorite for the Sydney Cup at 4to 1. Melos is quoted at sto 1, and Dreadnought at 6 to 1. Heavy rain has fallen here, followed by a similar downfall in the South. The drought has broken up all over the colony. Tbeie is snow on the bills at Timaru and Dunedin, and the weather is cold. The search for the bodies of the two ladies and the captain, who were drowned at Ooehuoga, has been fruitless. Miss Cowper, one of the victims, was the eldest daughter of Mr Cowper, journalist, late of Hamilton, and now of the Thames Advertiser.

Arrived—Wairarapa, at 1 p.m, from Gisborne.

SOUTHERN NEWS.

Last night.

The Premier, who has been at New Plymouth since Saturday, gees to Hawera to-morrow.

Robert Scott, aged seven, son of Mr David Scott, signwriter of Roslyn, has been accidentally drowned. At the Supreme Court, Napier, Johnson, for forging a receipt, on two charges, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on each, sentences to run concurrently. Golder, for larceny, got one year. The steamer Kaikoura reached Wellington this morning. She brings 2000 tons of cargo, besides passengers The reason of an application to the City Council to bring in the C D. Act is the alarming increase of disease. In ten days no less than 18 persons were treated in the hospital. This number is said to be below the average. The iucrease amounts almost to a small epidemic. The discovery of a skeleton in a channel close to the Waikonaiti railway station, Otago, points to either suicide or murder. The drain has always had about three feet of water in it, but during the|recent drought it became dry. The skeleton was contained in a sack. Two pieces of iron were placed in the sack to keep it in (the bottom of the ditch. The police theory is that the deceased was put into the suck after death and then thrown into the ditch. Medical examination shows that the bones belonged to a man sft 9 n in height, and an aged person. There is no clue as to identity.

The steamer Bayley arrived in Napier at a.m., on Sunday, from Gisborne.