COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 488, 2 August 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. The murdered constable, McLeod, had his life insured in Che Government office for £5OO. A child named Dick, at Otahnhu, was fatally poisoned by drinking a quantity of muriatic acid. Elijah Hocken was killed at his mill at Waiuku, by the fragments of an emery wheel which broke while he was working it. Mr Goodfellow, a resident of Otahnhu, has died, leaving £30,000 amongst his relatives. The Accident Insurance Company has declared a dividend at the rate of 12J per cent, per annum. Maize is very scarce, owing to vessels being unable to get out of the Bay of Plenty ports through the heavy weather. No prices can be given—the grain in fact is not obtainable at any price. The Ngatimaniapoto chief Wahanni is lying dangerously ill at his settlement at Whateroa, King conntry. Mr G. M. Johneton, manager of the South

British Insurance Company, has resigned. Over 300 fowls, pigeons, and canaries were sent away yesterday, by the Gairlooh, to compete at the Taranaki Show to be held to-day and to-morrow. Telegrams state that Mr Philips' Plymouth Bock, the beat at the Auckland Show, took first and special prizes. Mr G. Wyman’s four-roomed house at Cambridge was totally burnt yesterday. The insurances are only £5O. The funeral of the late Constable MoLeod. murdered at Dargaville, took place this afternoon. The police and fire brigade ware present, and also a large assemblage of Masons.

SOUTHERN NEWS.

Last night. Government doubt the accuracy of the cablegram from England, stating that the English Government wora tired of paving £16.000 a year for the 'Frisco mail service. Janet McCallum, a widow 55 years of age, committed suicide at Dunedin by taking poison. The shop and dwelling occupied by Hunter, a bootmaker, took fire at Invercargill, but the fire was extinguished after a little damage had been done. The fire had been lighted in two places. Hunter was arrested on a charge of incendiarism. The Wellington Acclimatisation Society, of which Masterton is the hatching depot, has distributed this season upwards of 100,000 trout from the Masterton ponds. Abraham Henry Denon, 57 years old, a cabman, banged himself last night, His wife left him two years age, and latterly he bed been in a despondent frame of mind. The Educational Institute has carried rearlutiona urging the Minister to take steps to institate a court of appaal for teachers. Whitcombs end Tombs, ol Christchurch, have been boycotted by the Bailway la. plnyeas’ and Seaman's Unions. The Bank of New Zealand rafuas to pro. dues books and documenta as requested by the Hutchison Charges Committee at Wellington. There is nothing fresh from the Brunner mines. The position has been unchangod, except that a mass meeting was to be held last night. The proprietor! are insisting upon a 20 per cent, reduction, and it is tetrad that the miners are equally determined not io yield. Mr Hall, of the West Coast of the South Island, has purchased the Wellington tramways at a large reduction on the £43,000 they have cost. It is understood they will now be run under Union rnlee. Government being of opinion that the claim for £13,000, made by Sir Julius Vogel against the colony, is not a justifiable olaim, and that they are not morally liable in respect of the cause of action, have decided to plead the Statute of Limitations, whan th* «*m comes on for hearing M;th« WeUlngtM Buprema Court.