SOUTHERN NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 525, 30 October 1890, Page 2

SOUTHERN NEWS.

Last night. It is understood that Captain Sinclair, of HMS Curacoa, has arrived at Wellington. Mr J. B. Hill was fined forty shillings to day for allowing his greyhound to kill a terrier in the street, belonging to Adelaide Gain. Yesterday was observed as a holiday at Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. A procession and sports were held in each place and the Labor demonstration on the whole was considered a success. At Taranaki the old settlers are dying off. William Hammend died on Monday, aged 90 years, and John Knight, age! 68, was found dead in bed yesterday. Miss Harrison, second assistant mistress of the Nelson Girls' College, has been appointed Lady Principal of the Wanganui Girls’ High School. Miss Burgoyne Hudson, of Auckland, has bean appointed assistant teacher. Tho first sale cf land in ths direction 0! breaking up the larger stations, which has taken placs in Marlborough, camo off yesterday at Blenheim, when Clifford’s Awatore estate was put up at auction, and bv private sale nine late totalling 2347 acres were sold for £13,143, or an average of £5 12s. Some buyers came from Canterbury and other parts of the colony. The Mariposa, with English mails of the 4th, left San Francisco for Auckland on the 18:h, contract date. Tho Zealandia, with colonial moils of Gth, arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on the 27th, two days late. Tho Greymouth wharf lumpers who went to work attended a meeting of tho Trades and Labor Union last night, but were ordered to retire, and a resolution was carried to strike thoir names off the ro’l Tho executive of the Miners' Association waited separately on five deputies of the men working the Brunner mine, with a view of persuading them to come out, but unsuccessfully. The deputies are not members of the Union. Tho Masterton Pastoral and Agricultural Society's annual show was held yesterday, and was very successful. Tho weather was fine and about three thousand persons were present. Tbe show ot sheop and horses was very good, but In cattle there was a falling off. Implements and machinery wera well represented, The direct mail service has been arranged so far as ths Imperial Government is concerned.