COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 457, 22 May 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. The Waihora, from Sydney, arrived tonight. Her departure for Gieborne ia postponed till Friday. Tho Early Closing Association has agreed to affiliate with the Trade and Labor Council. There are now 70 pupils at the Elam School of Art, and 60 applicants have been received for ten vacancies. Two hundred children are absent from the Wellesley Street Public School with la grippe. The Thames School of Mines was burnt down this afternoon, and part of the mineral collection was destroyed. There was a large attendance at Mr D. Christie Murray’s first lecture tonight. Lady Chute bought eighty seats, and invited friends. It is blowing an easterly gale and the schooner Waiapu, which left for the East Coast yesterday, had to put back. The downpour of rain yesterday flooded the dressing room of the Opera House and destroyed Miss Florence Seymour’s dresses, va'ued at £l5O. Miss Seymour is the lady who takes the leading parts in St. Maur’s Dramatic Company, which recently visited Gisborne.

The brigantine Clansman, which was driven ashore at Gisborne last year, has been entirely repaired at a cost of £1,500, by Mr Niconl, and leaves for Noumea next week. Five vessels are fixed to load here with gum ami flax for New York. No change has taken place in connection with the tailoresses’ strike, but efforts are bring made to arrange a conference between Mr Mcßride and the girls this week. Mr Blair, Engineer in Chief, has left for Russell to inspect a route for the proposed Kawakawa tramway to Puhipuhi, and the Puhipuhi tramway line to Kamo. Two of the Union Company’s steamers, which left last evening for Australian ports, had large cargoes of produce, flour, and breadstuffs, their holds being packed to the utmost capacity. At Mangapai on Tuesday the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Watson lost its life by falling into a potato pit containing water.