COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 451, 8 May 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. Tawhiao is urging ths establishment of a separate Maori Parliament, Miss Windred has resigned as Lady Superintendent of the Auckland Hospital. The next meeting of the Masonic Grand Lodge is to be held at Auckland. The steamer Wairarapa takes a shipment of preserved game to Sydney next week. Gatling, a two-year-old Nordenfelt, was soldin Sydney for two thousand guineas. Many school teachers are incapacitated from duty by la grippe. The St. Maur Dramatic Company opened their season here to-night, to a large house.

The deadlook still exists in respect to the imbeciles discharged from the Asylum, They remain in the Salvation Army Home. Upwards of fifty Queen Street tradesmen have agreed to make Friday the late night and close on Saturday afternoon. The Duke of Sutherland, the second of the N.Z. Shipping Company's additional cargo steamers, arrives in Auckland early next month, from London, via the Cape and Hobart.

The difficulties between Mr Mcßride and the tailoreeses are being overcome, and it is hoped the strike will be ended to-morrow. A large and representative meeting at Whangarei passed resolutions urging the completion of the Puhipuhi railway.

SOUTHURN NEWS.

Last night. The Te Kooti appeal case is deferred till Monday. There are great complaints of the want of railway trucks at Lyttelton. The land taken up in the colony during April was—cash land, 7948 acres ; deferred payment, 4,286 acres; perpetual lease, 27,937 acres; total 40,470 acres, The session of the Maritime Council at Wellington on Monday had to be postponed owing to the non-arrival of some of the delegates, The Kaiwarra’toll gates question was, in the Appeal Court yesterday, decided against the County Council. The miners at Sbag Point mine, Otago, have gone out on strike owing to the mine manager discharging the president of the local branch of the Union. With regard to the outcome of the Dunedin Exhibition the President stated at a meeting the loss would not be so great as shareholders had been led to believeThe cabmen’s difficulty at Christchurch has been settled, at any rate temporarily. It is alleged there have been grave irregularities in connection with some of the Napier Harbor Board’s affairs. The Christchurch Early Closing Association have instructed the Secretary to take legal proceedings against the writers of alleged libellous letters in a certain newspaper. New Zealand is to be represented at the Mining Conference to be held in London, The National Insurance Company has declared an interim dividend at tbe rate of ten per cent. Two young women in Dunedin have filed petitions to avoid farther calls in the Equitable Insurance Company, Intelligence has been received of tbe death, in Australia, of Mr T. Roberts, formerly of Dunedin. Several flaxmills in the Wairarapa district are expected to recommence operations in a few days. Mr Valentine and Captain McKenzie are expected to oppose the Minister of Lands at next General Election.

Lord O.ialow arrived at Napier, overland from Taupo, yesterday, but had to wait for Lady Onslow, who had not got that tar, having been detained with the Hinsmoa at Meroutf lelabdi

Mr Solomon Nxehleski, an old and respected resident of Christchurch, has died, at the age of 68. In consequence of a public petition got up the butchers of Wellington have reduced the present price of meat by jd to Id per lb. The cable steamer Scotia has laid the shore end of the duplicate cable, which ia now virtually completed, at a cost of £200,000. The body of Miss Brown, aged seventeen, who was reported as missing since Saturday, was discovered in a dam, known as Sherwood's, Patea. It is expected that surveys will be sufficiently advanced to enable 219.920 acres of land to be offered for sale before the 30th of June next, namely—s3,ooo acres in Auckland, 20.500 in Taranaki, 12 800 in Hawke’s Bay, 50.000 in Wellington, 137 910 in Mar - borough, 5,300 in Nelson, 1.000 in Westland, and 18,-120 in Otago. Thia estimate is independent of Canterbury returns which have not yet com!in.