COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 519, 16 October 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. .i.I . . U>st night; Tha hngsntina Nautilus I. overiU. from thn I.land., and is given up a. Inst. James Eisworth, a young man of 23, end matter of the barge Lake St. Clair, Ml overbaard ye.terday, and was drowned. Tbe Monowai arrived from Sydney this afternoon «i'h a large number of pa.ienger., but none for Gisborne.

The Soaiety tor tho prevention of sruettyto animols, whioh htlil its annual tnSMtng to-d&y, had 350 oases unier natiM during the year.

St. Matthew’s Ci>u?oh members debi led to build a Rtnneehuroh at a cost of eom.tbmg like £l2 900.

It is expected the eteamar Monowai will be placed nn tha Sin Franol.ao servlne. Mr Peacook has been elaate i Chairman ot the Dirafliors ot lha South Brl'iih Insurance Company and Mr McMillan Was chosen to fill Mr Hobba’ place on tbe directorate.

The barq ie Northern Star arrived to-iay from Fiji with a large shipment of banana., which was to have been sent to Sydney, hnt could not be ah ; pn-d there owing <o the .trike,

Tho various shippiugoonapinioa at present running ocean steamers between this colony an! England, have reduced the charge for sending buttor to Lindon in the "cool chambers to Jd per pound, and ohenee to j i per pound, both gross weight. Tbdse r ites come into force on the first of next month.

The first pnblio battery on tho Kaaotunu gold field starts in six weeks. The Bonanza mine has secured the right of tho first crushing. NAPIER. night. At the Supreme Court yesterday - Wi’loujhhy Brassey, charged with ob’aining money nn false pre’eice*, wu Acquitted. - . Mr Gannon addressed a meeting nf electors at the Gaiety Theatre on Monday night. The attendance was large, hot nnt crowded, Mr T. M. Murphy ocunnied the chair. Mr Gannon was received with mi oh applause, He referred arnon«Bt other ‘hinge to the labor difficulty, defending the strikes and blaming the Union Company for joining the Shipowners’ Association He mnde a strong attack on the recently established Free Association of Employers and Workmen in Hawke’s Bay. He advnoited a land and income tax. and condemned the property tax, which he averred rich people evaded at ranch as possible in various ways wh’eh he described. He onndem ted the recent action of tha R\i wav Commissioners, and regarded their appointment as a mistake, the only object being that fhev shoildaot as buffers between the Government and the pnblio. He received an almost unanimous vote of thanks and oonfilence, one hxnd only being held up against it. The annual session of the Ang'lcw Synod opened yesterday. The Bishop de’lv red an address. A choral service was held at the Cathedral in the evening. SOUTHERN NEWS. L»»t night. No answer has yet been received from the direct steamer companies a. to continuing the contract The postal suthoritie. anticipated a reply, but it apnears the companies are s'ill in communication with their London offices. Alfred Buxton, slid of 16, of fnverasrgill, was shockingly injured in his father’s W’rk. yesterday. He was apnlying tar tn a belt to make it grip, when he got osoght by it and was thrown upon a pair of mitre wheels, which chewed up tha left arm and infl'Oted shookioß injuries on the <hinh and abdomen. Stephen Mon'e, of Prebhleton. Christohuron, has beqneathed the hu'k of his property, eome £l2 0 0. yielding £l5OO per annum, to the Aehburton O'd Men 1 . Hom.. The Hon, G. McLean uy. nothing Will be done in tho wav nf altering the terminal port of the San Francisco mill servlo. tin he disouaees the matter with th. Chairman of the Auck'.nd Harbor Board. There are so many demand, for the eervloM of Mr Sewer., dairy expert, that he oennot oveiteke the work, and Government are considering the advisability cf appointing an afisle’ant.

The six young men from the Hutt concerned in the recent fatal affray were before the Court yre'erday. charged with throwing stones at the Chinamen's house. It was understood moat of them intended toplead suiltv, and have the ca°e summarily sett ed, but at the last moment they deeidel to defend th. ease, end it was adjourned for a week. Tho annual session of the Diocesan Synod at Christchurch was opened yeaterdiy by Bishop Julius Referring to education, he sail tbe State in this colony had taken tho important task of education upon itself, and in the fulfilment of ita selfimposed dulioe, hod deliberately rejected tho foundation of mu cd urn’ion, and built its house upon eand. “I have no quarrel,” h‘ continued, “with the Education Act except upon this one point. Ido .ct desire a grant in aid of denominational schools, still less do I desire what is called Biblo reading without note or comment, which I think to be worse than uselsss; bnt I do ask for such rrllgimis educa'lnn as is given for in.tance by the London School Board, andfnrlh. recognition of religion, of ths true basis of sound morality."