COLONIAL TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 434, 27 March 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND.

Last night. Mr Henry Varley held au Evangelistic Mission meeting in the Choral Hall to-night. The N. z. and River Plate Mortgage Company reelected the local Directors yesterday. Mr Spragg, shorthand secretary of the Sweating Commission, was seized yesterday with la grippe, and Incapacitated from duty. Castor, the stallion imported from -Sydney for the, Wellington Stud Company, arrived safely by ths Te Anau. John Lund, a young man, fell from the orosstrees of the cutter Ooralie, and died from the injuries. The Governor leaves on Tuesday with Mr Mi chelson to see the recently discovered Waitonio oaves, on the border of the King Country, Silver bearing stone is being taken by a party of prospectors out of a reef at Rawiti, near Cape Bratt. So far only three witnesses have come forward to be examined by the Sweating Commission, Inspector Gamble said it was a practice of some houses to take girl apprentices for dressmaking for one year without'wages, and at the end of rhe year to discharge them, taking on others, thus getting work done without paying wages to hands. . SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. Ernest Teenmore, a lad working on a farm st Hawarden, was fatally kicked on the chest by a horse, It is said in Wellington that the Boundary Commissioners will have to deal With a host ef objection* and demands for revising, but

there is nothing to compel them to alter their decisions except as they shall see fit. The difficulty between the Christchurch Typographical Association and Messrs Whitcomb and Tombs has not yet been settled and the Association intend to bring the matter before the Trades and Lab.r Council.

At a fire in a four roomed cottage at Wanganui, which was burnt down at mid night on Monday, Fireman Thompson distinguished himself by rushing through the flames and saving the lives of three children, who were asleep in the back part of the building. Haselden and Thompson have served a notice of action upon the Hutt County Council for alleged malicious prosecution in respect of the facts surrounding the toll gate burning on the Hutt road. Sir Robert Stout is retained for the plaintiffs. Canon has been appointed Archdeacon of Christchurch, vice Arch deacon Bowen (deceased). Hyman Hyams, who was mulcted in £l5O damages f»»r breach of promise at Nelson, has fi’ed a petition in bankruptcy. The creditors are—Miss Charlotte Mi Is £176 3.«, E. G. Jellicoe £62 5s sd, Mrs Hyams £7The Crescent estate at Dunedin was sold by auction in small farms. Eleven out of 16 farms were disposed of at the sale or privately afterwards, the total of the s£e being £6,306. Prices ranged from £4 to £l5 15s per acre. The Standing Committee of the Diocese of Christchurch has decided to appeal to the Bishop of Wellington to resign his claim to the Primacy, so that the Bishops might be able to arrange a meeting of the General Synod. It is reported in Wellington that the Chief rfudge of the Native Land Court has reported upon the mat accord which appeared to exist between Judge Wilson and Judge Barton. It is that the one unduly pressed his law upon Maori usage and that the other stood up for “ Maori usage and custom.” There appears to have been nothing more than an incompatibility of temper, for the Chief Judge takes the cases at Napier and Judge Barton has withdrawn his resignation.