COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 450, 6 May 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. Captain Saville, A.D.C. to tbe Governor, leaves for Japan on Wednesday. He hopes to return to New Zealand. James Carlaw, a member of the Rose loothall team, had one of his legs broken at Epsom on Saturday. Mrs Thompson, who lately disposed of the Kawau. has purchased Rooklands, which was the residence of the late Justice Gillies. Mr Mcßride has agreed to pay the tailoresus according to the shop log, but insists that they shall do work for which they are paid. This has caused another deadlock, ae girls can only do factory work, A belief prevails that gold exists in the neighborhood of the Kalhu Valley, and a prospecting party ia going out, Mr Frank Lawrie, addressing the constituents of Manggrae, denounced the Pro. >erty Tax and defended the present system of ilduoation. He was accorded a vote of thank;.

A large number of cues of la grippe are reported in Auckland, but the disease is not of a very serious type, It has been blowing a northerly gale here since Saturday. It is believed the Hinemoa, with Lady Onslow on board, has taken shelter on the coast.

The Charitable Aid Board declined to take in the six imbecile old men left at their doors by the Asylum authorities. They are being cared for by the Salvation Army. A cable message states that the Norwegian Barque Orion, which left Auckland on February 4, with a cargo of kauri, on behalf of the Kauri Timber Co., for London, has pat into Monte Video, a South American seaport, In a leaky condition,