COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 509, 20 September 1890, Page 3

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. Ths Members of Parliament returned today. The cutter Lark has been wrecked at Matata. and Peter Jonas (the captain) drowned. A man named Langeon got a piece cf moulted metal in his eye at the Ooehunga iron works tc-day, and will lose his sight. John Heritson, a Wbangarei resident tor some years, and a large remittance man. cut his throat st Brown's Hotel, near Ngakura, — last night. The dismissed tramway drivers are starting a rival service it they can get the necessary

The Directors of the Booth British InBU'ance Company intend proposing a reduction rf capi at to the extent ot £1 per chare, with the obj-ot ot placing the Company in a dividend paying position almost immediately. The insurance and reserve funds will remain at about £70.000. The shareholders have been oonaulted, and have agreed to the directors' proposal.

SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. The departures from the Colony exceeded the arrivals last month by 200. The New Zealand Rifle Association meet, ing will probably open at Napier on Jan. 10. Sir George Grey will address a meeting at Palmerston North on Monday night, if he is strong enough. A Maori woman named Henna, aged 70, was burned to death in a whare at Aknra, If as tert on.

The ringleaders of the boys who esevped from the industrial school and robbed a farmer's house, were ordered back to the institution, and to undergo a whipping. Mr Sperrey, Property Tax Commissioner, died of meringi is supervening on gout. He was born in 1827. He had a lengthy official experience in Otago. A lad named Chari ss Fry, aged 10, was run over and killed by a loaded dray at Fairfax, Dnnedin. On removing the bridle to feed the horse the animal started off, knocking the lad down, and the wheel of the dray passing over his breast. The Colonial Bank's net profits for the half year amounts to £16,248. There is available £17,970. The directors recommend the payment of the customary six per cent dividend, absorbing £l4 000. The Lyttelton Harbor Board have resolved to take immediate steps to provide cool storage for butter, meat, flab, etc., at Lyttelton,

Lister, proprietor of the Dunedin Workman newspaper, has been committed for trial for an alleged criminal libel on Mr Bell.

Tbe Governor, who arrived at Ohri-tchureh yesterday, will go to Horsley downs on Sattnd*y. and remain a considerable time in the country.