COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 532, 15 November 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Ln st night.. Mr Button, solicitor, is being asked to stand for Auckland City. A very Euccesefttl "Agricultural and Pastoral Show commenced to-day at Potter’s paddock. Mr W. S. Alien, who is standing for Te Aroha, writes that he cannot be back fi’om England till after the election, and Mr Vaile -is haw a probable candidate. A slight shock of earthquake was felt here, at the Thames, and at Coromandel on Wednesday evening. Mr Motrin was the largest, winner at the Auckland races, taking £313, while Mr Na+hnn’s winnings were £2lB, and Mr Wright’s £209. Mr Lawson, Official Assignee, was the only pasenger for Gisborne by the steamer Tarawera to-day. . The Baptist Union to-day decided to Isold the next seesion in Wellington, and by 19 to 5 passed a resolution affirming the desirability of Bible reading in schools, Sir George Grey js so seriously indisposed that hie medical advisers have forbidden the admission of any visitors, although his con dirion is not considered critical, Kerei Kaihati, who was arrested by the Government expeditionary parly, has been com mitted for trial.

SOUTHERN NUWS. Last night. The four year old-son of Mr Chesney, hotelkeeper at Arthur’s point, Otago, has been poisoned by eating strychnine which he obtained from a chest of drawers. The N.Z. Shipping Company promise to send direct steamers alternately to, Auckland and Otago. The Otago Anglican Synod have passed a resolution m favor of religious instruction in primary schools during ordinary schools hours. The Public Works Department has issued instructions to push on the Gorge railway line to enable it to open at Christmas if possible. Miss Hayman,, who was .found insensible on the banks of the Avon, died yesterday. At the Christchurch Police Court yesterday morning three men, named Smith, Nelson, and Forwood, were charged with a breach of the Gaming and Lotteries Act by laying totalisator odds on the racecourse on the Bth, and were fined ,£lO each and costs. The staff of workmen who came from America with Mr Booth, petroleum expert, 'arrived in the Takapuna, and have taken up their quarters at Maturoa, New Plymouth. Mr Booth has decided to sink the first well on the site of the old locomotive shed, near the foot of the breakwafer. Preliminary operations have been commenced, and itis expected drilling will be started about the beginning of the year. Work will then be carried on day and night. The body of a young woman named Charlotte Leech was discovered floating down the Avon yesterday. She was missed from her employment three weeks ago. The body was much decomposed.,. Government have determined that uo further coal mining leases bn Creavii lands shall be granted. The. whole question. of coal supply has been ventilated.