COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 449, 3 May 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. Lidy Onslow went South this evening. Fair sport was got in the Waikato at the opening of the shooting season. The Bev. George Preston, formerly of Napier, was inducted to the charge of St. Mary's pro Cathedral last night. The City 0 >uuoil has lost £200,a year for four years' owing to an error in transcribing the Gas Company’s valuation from one roll to another in 1886.

Football in Auckland is likely to be a great deal weaker this season owing to the departure of a number of good men. There are a number of cases of la grippe both in the city and suburbs. Some of the cases are of a severe type. The City Council propose to take the whole question of Fire Insurance into consideration shortly. A meeting of fruit growers to discuss the fruit growing industry decided to approach the City Council to have the City Market used as u fruit and produce market. It was stated that the surplus of fruit is not large enough yet for export. The half yearly meeting of the Bank of New South Wales was held yesterday in Sydney. A dividend and bonus of 17| per cent were declared, and £lO,OOO was added to the reserve fund, which now stands at £950,000.

Bishop and Mrs Selwyn have given a donation of £3OOO towards the cost of constructing a new vessel for the Melanesian Mission.

D. T. Evans, an undischarged bankrupt, has left suddenly for the Islands. His affairs are very involved, and he confessed to a meeting of creditors that he had used trust moneys in his business. Mr Buckland reports that at Remuera on Thursday dairy cattle were yarded in full numbers. They were dull of sale. Thpso of choice quality and at buyer’s profit were the only ones competed for. Prices ranged from £2 to £5 each. Fat cattle were in full numbers. They were at the beginning ot the sale higher than last week, but fell as the sale proceeded, prices ranged from 15s to 17s the IOOIbs. Fat sheep ware in average supply and prises were steady at last week's values. Fat calves sold well, and a fall market of fat pigs met with a satisfactory sale, but illconditioned stare pigs were low in price. The averages of steers ranged from £5 Ils to £7 4s. Ewes ranged from 9s 64 to 13s, wethers 13a to 17s, lambs in their wool 10s to 18s each; porkers 15s to 25s each, heavy pigs from 40s to 68s, and wsaners from 4s to 20s each.

Still no settlement has been arrived at in connection with the tailoreuea’ strike, and the girls are still out. It is hoped an agreement may be at by Monday. An endeavor is being made by the drapese to get Friday as a late night, and have a half holiday on Saturday. Government have declined to longer continue the maintenance of about 40 imbeciles in the asylum, and to day six were driven to the office of the Charitable Aid Board, and left at the door. The secretary refused to provide for them, end they were taken to the police station. A deadlock exists, both Government end the Oheritable Aid Board repudiating their liability as to unlnlensmie. -

souther; t news. Last night. A man named Teckies, 22 years of age, was killed yesterday by a falling tree at Masterton.

Two shocks of earthquake were experienced at Queenstown yesterday morning.

The Dunedin Taiioresses’ Union have voted £25 per week to assist the Auckland strikers.

The installation of Bro. Henry Thomson Grand Master of the New Zealand Grand Lodge of Freemasons took place at Christchurch, Bro. E. T, Gillon, of Wellington, being the installing officer.

The amount collected at Wellington for a free public library fund has reached £2531.

A private cablegram states that Shaw, Saville, and Company’s claim against the Timaru Harbor Board, re the loss of the ship Lyttelton, on an appeal to the House of Lords, was dismissed and plaintiffs cast in all costs.

To night a deputation from the Wellington Knights of Labor will confer with a committee appointed to make arrangements for the formation of a co operative butchery.

New Volunteer regulations, drawn up as suggested in the report of General Edwards, will be presented to Parliament for approval. The regulations provide for increased capitation to navals, and two senior rifle corps will first be enrolled .under the new regulations. The Boundary Commissioners have now decided to eliminate Taupo from the East Coast electorate and reinstate a portion of the Arai riding. The Customs revenue for April was— Auckland £27,338, Wellington £24,090, Lyttelton and Christchurch £19,839, and Dunedin £32.355; total for the colony, £126,229. For March last the revenue was £122,059, and for April, 1889, £116,045. Yesterday Shaw, Saville, and Albion Company’s new cargo steamer Maori arrived at Port Chalmers from London, via Algos Bay, in a somewhat damaged condition. After leaving Algos Bay she experienced a fresh gale, with terrific cross seas. The fastenings to a spare propeller in the 'tween decks broke adrift before it could be secured, and it damaged 22 of her frames, and four of her plates, making several holes on the starboard side, and two small ones on tbs port side.