COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 460, 29 May 1890, Page 3

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. Ths following are the weights for the steeplechaseOrangeman 11.12. Silvio 11.6, Kangaroo 11.5, Orlando 1012, Donald 10 9, Magnesia 10.6, Waterfall 10.4, Auckland and Jenny 10.3,Falcon 10.2, Parnell 9.12, Tawhiao 9.11. Hone 99, Takapau and The Colonel 9.8, Fishmonger and Ivy Fluke 9 7. It is reported that an English syndicate has purchased the Kaeo colliery. The steamer Richmond, three weeks over due from the Islands, arrived with a broken crank ehaft, It transpires that the hull of H.M.S Orpheus, wrecked 27 years ago, has been lying on the beach at Manakau heads for two months. Mrs Lizzie Lamb, petitioner in a recent divorce suit, bas died suddendly from peritonitis, the result of a miscarriage. The Engineer, Mr Moody, after inspection, cays there is wealth enough in Puhipuhi to make all New Zealand rich. Government have taken possession of the Kaihu Valley Bailway, over which they have a mortgage of £45,000. Scott, of Gisborne fame, has purchased the Commercial Hotel at Whangarei from Mr Claud Park, and takes possession in June. Alf. Warbrick, one of the Maori football team, was sned by hie European wife for maintenance. He confessed he is living with a Maori woman at Rotorua, but it was held by counsel that being a native an order could not be made against him. A decision has not yet been given. The football benefit to Mrs Conroy, the mother of Dennis Conroy, whose death was caused by an accident on the football field recently, resulted in a grcaa taking of upwards of £BO. There is a great scarcity of bootmakers in Auckland, and some of the manufacturers are inconvenienced in consequence. An Auckland merchant writing from Sydney, mentions his meeting with New Zealanders, and says in response to the inquiry as to how they like living in Sydney the reply has invariably been, “ Give me Auckland with one meal a day in preference to life in Sydney living at express speed.” Hundreds are ont of employment. It seems absolute cruelty for you who can reach the public ear to let any one come here at present. SOUTHERN NEWS.

• Last night. Mr B. Taylor addressed his constituents at Sydenham last night, and received a vote of thanks and confidence. At the Supreme Court, Christchurch, Jas. Henry Roberts, said to be a brother of Jonathan Roberts, was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude for false pretences. In the cases brought against sixteen of the miners on strike at Shag Point, Otago, the application for eviction orders was granted in each ease, with costs of Court, bnt no professional fees. Englis and Flan's flaxmill at New Biver. Southland, has been burned down. The loss is £7OO. There was no inen ance. Mr G, Fisher has declined to contest the Napier seat at the general election, saying that as Wellington had stuck to him be would stick to Wellington. Thirty or forty lots of Crown land, leavings of former periods of purchases, on river beds, steep facings, and rocky hillsides, were open for application at Timaru, and though tbe land is so poor there was quite a rush of applicants. At the Christchurch criminal session, Edward Orpin, Frederick Charles Page, and George Menzies, three sailors, were charged with damaging the Lyttelton Gas Works by rolling -down hill the stone which caused the recent explosion. They were acquitted. Tbe Postmaster-General has received a cable message from Mr J. Creighton, of San Francisco, stating that a Bill has been recommended to the United States Hcnse of Representatives, under which the San Francisco mail service will be subsidised to tbe extent of about £34 000 per annum. The steamer Monowai, the latest and largest addition to the Union Company’s fleet, has arrived at Dunedin, having left Greenock on April stb. A remarkable feature of tbe passage is the fact that her engines worked continuously from the hour of her departure till her arrival. She will be followed by the Botokina and Takinnl. The Bluff Harbor Board yesterday con (idered a motion by Mr J. G. Ward to float a loan of £lOO,OOO at ssy 5 per cent., from which to convert the present 6 per cent. loan of £60.000, which is now exhausted, and use the balance in constructing permanent wharves, removing obstacles to navigation, Aid providing s slip or dry dock. The chairman gave his casting vote against the proposal.