COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 459, 27 May 1890, Page 3

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

NAPIER. Last night. Messrs Hoadley and Co. sold to-day, under direction of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, the Royston estate, Napier, the property of Mr F. Sutton, formerly M.H.R., for equal to £23 per acre. Mr Joseph Rhodes was the purchaser. That was the only instance of business, the day being otherwise observed as a close holiday. The weather was dull and threatening, and there was not much holiday-making. The Gisborne horse Tim only came third in the back hurdles at the races at Taradale to-day.

AUCKLAND.

Last night. There was beautiful weather for the holidays. The Volunteer display was a fair one. The Mariposa, with the English mails, arrived on Saturday. Mr McKenzie, was a passenger. Two brothers named Aubrey, of Wangarei, were drowned in the Rose Blanche disaster at Wangarei, and also a Ponsonby boy named Roebrick. Messrs Garrett Bros., boot manufacturers, gave all their hands a week’s notice to leave the factory if they do not join the Union. This step will settle the strained relations between the firm and the Union. The Bands of Hope of Auckland and Suburbs held a large united detnonstraMm id City Hali te-aight.

The schooner Gisborne, which arrived to-day from Gisborne, experienced heavy weather on her passage up. Mr Napier, barrister, has received a retainer from some prominent gentlemen in the United States to act for them in a case which is shortly to come before the High Court constituted by the Treaty between America, England, and Germany. The case involves a claim to 60,000 acres of the Navigators’ Islands, which, it is said, include some of the most valuable land in Samoa for strategic purposes. The Star to-night says it is quite on the cards that the difficulty with the railway employees is not the only one of a kind which will embarass the Government immediately prior to the approaching election. There has been dissatisfaction in the Telegraph Department throughout the colony for years past for the reason that though the labor is skilled and the men require to be intelligent and fairly educated, the remuneration for their services is poor indeed. It is said that some of the best operators in the colony are not paid as much as £3 per week, while many get no more than £2 and £2 5s ; hence the trouble. It is no secret that at the present time the operators in different parts of the colony are contemplating a general strike. The N.Z. Herald’s Wellington correspondent telegraphs :—I am informed, upon official authority, that rabbits have increased to such an extent in the King Country that it is extremely likely that the Government will have to go to some considerable expense to “keep them under.” The attention of the Lands Department has been drawn to the subject, and energetic measures will be taken to prevent the further growth of this nuisance. I understand that the local inspector has been directed to report on the subject. The permanent lodgment of “ King Rabbit” in the King Country would be a serious misfortune.

SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. The Abbottsford (Otago) Coliery dispute has been settled by mutual concessions, and the men resume work to-morrow, A bundle of clothes found near the scene of the New Plymouth murder, supposed to belong to Mahi.but has not yet been identified. The Postmaster General has received a cable message from Mr Creighton, Unite! States, to ths eSect that the Committee of Ways and Means have reported a Ta; iff Bil to Congress lor ths admission of New Zealand flax free into the United States. The duty a t present is fifteen dollars per ton, A man named Henney was accidentally shot dead by a companion named Birrell, while pig hunting near Mount Grey, Canterbury, on Sunday. Mr George London, Secretary of the Wellington Branch of Railway Servants' Society contests the Hutt Seat at the General Election, and it is rumored that Dr Newman will also be a candidate.

Mr Frank Humphreys, Bar., a well-known rifleman at Bangiora, died yesterday from the effects of an accident on Saturday last. The Judges of the Supreme Court have published the following new regulation under the Law Practitioners Act:—“ That notwithstanding the rules and regulations under the Law Practitioners Act, 1882, published'in the New Zealand Gazette No. 4, on Thursday, the 27th June. 1889, to come into operation on the Ist June, 1890, the examination of candidates for admission as barristers or solicitors in law and general knowledge shall be heard on the third Monday in September of the present year, under the rules and regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 109, on Thursday, the 28th December, 1882.”