COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 435, 29 March 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

NAPIER. Last night. The first of the bill cases in connection with Joseph Parker and the late William Fletcher was commenced to day before a special jury in the Supreme Court. The Colonial Bunk sued John Bennett and James Rochfort, executors in Fletcher’s estate, for £225 and £125, amounts of two of Fletcher’s promissory notes discounted by Parker with Mr Hyman Napthali, and rediscounted by the Colonial Bank. The case excited much interest, and the Court was crowded. The case was not concluded when the Court rose at 5.30. A very heavy sea was running in the bay to day and at high water washed clean over the sea wall on the esplanade, but without injuring the wall. At the breakwater, however, some damage was done to the uncompleted work, especially at the wharf, where all the piles recently driven and remaining unbraced were washed away. The piledriver and engine were both swept away, and considerable loss will be sustained by the contractor, Mr James Saunders,

AUCKLAND.

Last night. H M.S. Egeria has arrived from Sydney. Miss Featherstone was crushed between her father’s steam yacht and the wharf and is dying from internal injurirs. Mr R. Exam, British Resident at the Hervey Group, has arrived in Auckland on a visit.

Cecil Crawford, of Napier, has been arrested hare on a charge of embezzling £25. The Union Company’s officers deny a report wired from Dunedin that the Officers’ Association has demanded an immediate advance of £2 per month, though they are seeking to arrange a general increase. The Auckland schooner Julia Pryoe, which had been missing, has turned up at the Islands, with the crew starving. The Hon. G. F. Richardson, Minister for Lands, leaves for Tauranga this evening. He intends to proceed to the Lake Country with a view to inspecting the country between the To Kianu and Hunterville, in connection with the proposal to open that route and Riving an arterial road from Auckland to Wellington, It is intended also to have an arterial toad from Napier to Wanganui on the West Coast, ending at Pepiriki, a considerable portion having already been prepared and a coaching road provided. Dean’s Jam Factory at Ponsonby has been destroyed by fire. There was a considerable stock of jam and fruit on the premises, tfln the flour market bran, Southern, has advanced from £3 15s to £4 ss, and there is a similar rise in Southern sharps. Local maize has increased in price from 3s to 3s 6d.

thirty five converts testified at the Evangel otic meeting held by Mr Henry Varley last night. Sunrise meetings on the summit of Mount Eden are contemplated. Captain and Mrs Moss have been appointed managers of the new Refuge, for which position there were seventeen applications. Captain Meades and the chief officer of the Wauaka, atOnehunga, have both been seized with a complaint which the doctors declare is la grippe,

SOUTHERN NEWS.

Last night. Sincerity won the Nelson Oup, Bedwood second. Two brewers of Timaru. named Hale end Taylor, were fined £5O each for false declaration of stock on hand, and the plant in each case was forfeited. The Dunedin Tramway employees have decided, to start a Union, having held a meeting lor that purpose at midnight, whioh was the only hour that all could attend. Mary Mahon was committed for trial this morning at Christchurch on a charge of arson. The Wellington Dog Show opened to day, There ie an increase of the number of breeds, and the eihiblia are of a superior class.

In ihe case Hitchcock v. Lowe and 00., at Dunedin, in which the plaintiff claimed £5O from the defendants, manufacturers of ginger ale, Mr Carew, EM., found that the plaintiff had suffered from lead poisoning, and gave judgment for .£25, and costs. Bishop Hadfield has offered to resign his claim to the Primacy on condition that the Bishop of Nelson, as senior Bishop, will at once convene the Synod. Jubal Fleming, the well known tobacconist of Christchurch, is insolvent. The assets are set down at £995 Ils 4d and the liabilities £1,792 Ils 6d. The chief creditors are— T. Stapleton £621, McGregor Watt £355, P. Hayman and Co. £398. Meteorological returns show that in February nowhere did rain fall more than three or four days, except at Kaikoura, where rain fell on ten days. At the Christchurch Board of Education meeting, the report showed the cost of administration was 2 s sid per head on the children educated In 1878 the administrt • tion expenditure was 3s 3£d per head. The Hutt County Council, having re erected the toll gates at Ngahuranga, notified that tolls would be charged on and after to day. The settlers, however, declared they would resist the attempt to charge, and two tollgates and tollhouses were completely demolished last night by a crowd of about 100, in spite of the fact that two policemeu were told off to keep guard. One of the gates were thrown into the Ngahauranga Creek aud the other into the harbor. Both tollhouses was wrecked, one being turned upside down and thrown into the creek and the other cast into the harbor.