COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 529, 8 November 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. The were 193 entries for the dog show wh’ch opened to day. This Was rather better th in last year. A local booknuker who was laying heavily against Carbine has bolted. Mr Evans was the only passenger for Gisborne by the Manapouri, which Bailed to day. The eight hours demonstration which takes p’ace here next Monday will be a big affair. Various trades will he represented on trol’tes, and the printers intend to exhibit their devil. It is expected there will bs no opposition to Mr Upton for the second term of office as Mayor. The Sorcerer, which is being produced by local amateurs, has been drawlog full houses all the week. The'schooner Gisborne arrived to day from Gisborne and Ea-t Coast ports. Alexander McGregor fell down a shaft at the Kamo coal mine to day, and was smashed -to pieces. An assay from the Young Colonial mine at Puhipuhi eave at the rate of 10440zs of silver to the ton ; from the Try Finke 730, and No. 1 Prospectors’, 815. There was great excitement caused here early yesterday morning by another expedition to arrest a native. Fifty or sixty police and permanent artillery, fully armed, were sent to a settlement near Mercer to arrest one native,. Keri K tibau, and on arrival there he gave himself np smilingly, laughing at the force sent for him He had neglected a summons to attend the police court on a charge of destroying a trig station. The Star denounces the whole affair as a burlesque,-and says it will do great harm outside the colony. SOUT HEKN NE WS. ... Last night. The charge against Keans and Son, of selling adulterated pepper, was resumed at the Dnne-lin Police Court yesterday, and dismissed. ' Marsala Cowan, aged 50, wife of Matthew Cowan, cab driver, Christchurch, died suddenly last night at the house of Mr E. Foote, a friend. The husband was arrested on suspicion of having accellerated her death by illtreatmont. At a meeting of the' creditors of David Robertson, ironfnunder, Wellington, yesterday, bankrupt attributed hie failure to the recent oAntinneddemßuds of labor, whereby his profi s had been considerably reduced, and a tremendous decrease in business consequent upon the recent strikes, and great difficulty of obtaining fuel. Mr Pnilpott, a farmer at Papanui, drew Carbine in Tattersatl’s Sweep at Sydney, and wins £22 500. At'the Wellington Magistrate's Court this morning. J. McDermott,.oueM-the strikers, woe sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on each of three charges of assaulting free" laborers. The Bench said it was manifest the assault was an organised attack, and it was unfortunate that McDermott was the only one identified. He was determined to deal with cases of this kind in a manner that would tend to stamp them out.