SOUTHERN NEWS.

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

SOUTHERN NEWS.

Last night. The storemen engaged in Wellington are about to form an Union. Charles Strachan has been found drowned in the water of Leith, Dunedin. Mr Twopenny has resigned the editorship of the Otago Daily Times owing to a disagreement with the Board of Directors on matters of public policy. Thomas Bostwick, a Sue athletic youth, was drowned in the Opawa river laet week. He had been out duck shooting. The returned “ settlers ” from the Kermadecs are petitioning Government for compensation for loss sustained in the venture. One settler estimates his loss at £5OO. The Directors of the Woollen Mill Co. are quite willing to go to arbitration under a deed of submission. James Holmes has been committed for trial at Christchurch on three charges of forgery of cheques. The Dunedin Branch of the Society of Railway Servants has voted £lO to tha Petone mill hands. The death is reported of Edmund Elliott, one of the pioneers of the Maoetown goldfields. The cable steamer Scotia, after calling at Wellington, went on to Wakapuaka to lay the end of the duplicate cable. James Barkley, of tbe drapery firm of Smith and Barkley, Greymouth, wee found dead in his bed. He had not been ailing. At a meeting of the Canterbury Labor Council it was stated that the difficulty between Berry and 00. end their employees had been settled and work begins at onoe. Tbe stables of Mr P. O. Chinglord, Otago, have been burned down. They were newly built and insured for £lOOO. Tbe etables were insured in the Guardian Office. Mrs O'Connor, wife of E. O'Connor, M.H.R., died last night at Wasport. Sickness is very prevalent at present. At Stratford Robert Seeger dropped dead on Saturday on the verandah of an bote'.

A chapter of troublee hapneaed at Patea. A child of Mr Barker, of Wbenuakia, was found dead in bed. The little son of Mr Dickson fall off a cart, breaking his back and dying almost immediately. A daughter of Mr Brown, Wakaremea, hae been missing since Saturday morning. Tbe vital statistics for March show tha total births in the various boroughs to hare amounted to 499, against 39’1 in February. There wae an increase of 25 deaths. In March there were 198, an increase of 35 on the number in February. While a butcher’s oart was descending the incline near St. Clair, Dunedin, on Saturday, the horse bolted aud two boys were thrown out violently. One. named Benjamin Martin, was killed instantaneously, aud ths other, S iohael King, died at one yesterday. It has bean decided to form a 00 operative butchery in Wellington, with a genital ol £10,600.