COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 491, 9 August 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. Mr McLennan was the only passenger for Gisborne by tha Manapouri tc-lay. The local team are favorites for the match with the Taranaki team to-morrow. The Taranaki team also play Gisborne and Napier. A child named Garrett, at Otahuhu, has been dangerously poisoned by eating the heads of wax matches. The Board of Education has at last resolved to inform the Auckland members that it will be prepared to take over from the department charge of tho native schooli in this district. Part of a cargo of 700 tons dead weight, of one line only, white salt, was brought into port early this morning by the Margaret Galbraith. Funoke, the murderer of Constable McLeod, and who has been brought to town, is recovering from the injuries oaused by being riddled with shot. The announcement that the next Athletic Championship meeting will te held in Auckland has been received here with great satisfaction. The meeting will probably take place about Christmas time. Mr Alexander Grant, of Dunedin, who temporarily filled the position of traffic manager on ths Auckland Railway for some time past, was entertained at a smoke concert last night. He had a firstolass send off.

SOUTHERN NEWS.

Last night. At Napier judgment was reserved in ths case Mary Grey v. Clive Road Board, an action for damages sustained in consequence of the Board closing a road. The Wellington Meat Export Company declare a dividend of eight per cent for the year. Mr James Paul Swan, for several years gaoler at Timaru, and an old servant of that department, died yesterday, Mr Springall, a surveyor, has been brought into Rotorua, severely scalded by falling into the hot spring at Waiotapu. A young man named Palmer has recovered £25 damages from a Christchurch dentist because the latter’s apprentice had pulled out a wrong tooth bv mistake. Molesworth Like, Mcßae’s station, in North Marlborough district, consisting of 1753 acres of freehold and 62,500 acres of leasehold, with 20,784 merinos, has been sold by auction to Mr Acton Adams for £15,850. Robinson, formerly shipping clerk in the Wellington Customs Department, against whom a warrant was issued for alleged embezzlement of Government moneys, and who it was thought had absconded to Sydney, has been arrested at Matarawa, near Carterton, where he was engaged felling bush.

[A stoppage in the work of tha telegraph wires occurred at 9 58 last night, as a large budget was beiug transmitted for the Standard. The wires could not he got to work during the rest of the night, but it is hoped oommunioation with the outer world will be resumed by the time the office opens this tnsrniug.]