COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 533, 18 November 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. night. The Imperial Government have confirmed Mr Moss’ appointment as Resident at Mr Upton has been elected Mayor of Auckland for a second term. Tbe Baptist Union has renewed its engagement with Mr Thos. Spurgeon to act as travelling evangelist. Au Industrial Exhibition on an extensive scale, in connection with the Sunday Schools Union opens here to-morrow. Mr James Fitzpatrick, an old soldier, was found dead in the stables of the Kahu Hotel, at Kaipara. Mr Bryce is in the Waikato, conducting his election campaign. Cecili 1 Cullen, a girl of 18, was running upstairs when she broke a blood vessel, causing her death. Mr Justice Connolly will be back from Wellington on Wednesday, when Supreme Court business will be resumed. The Kauri Timber Co. met in Melbourne, and decided to pay a dividend of three per cent, but at the same time made a call of 2s per share. SOUTHSRN NEWS. East night. Mr Reardon addressed aorowded meeting in the Hastings Town Hall on Saturday night, Mr Burnett, Mayor ot Hastings, occupied tbs chair. Mr Reardon had an exosllent reception, and was nii.igh applauded. At the conclusion of hU address, a motion affirming Mr Reardon to be a most fit and proper person fap represent" the constitnentey was carried, with only two dissentients. The Government are ready to throw open lauds for labor settlement iu each provincial district. . January is proposed as the best time for the Federation Convention. John Bailey hits been found dead at Roxburgh, near Dunedin. Mr Jas. Mills is being opposed for Port Chalmers by Mr Millar, Secretary of the Maritime Council, The German Squadron, consisting of the Alexandrine, Sophie, and Leipsic arrived in Wellington to day. Mre Bell, whose clothes caught fire while ehe was asleep near a fire, at Pineville, Otago, has since died. The direct liner Kailjoura left Plymouth on Saturday for New Zealand. The railway returns for the four weeks ended Ilth November, shew that the total receipts for the colony were JC70.690, against a total expenditure of 250,874. Christian Hannett, a resident of "Oxford, near Christchuroh, was found hanging to the rafters of a shed, dead. The Wellington Free Labor Association decided that no member of a Union nfliliated to the Maritime Council ahull be admitted until free from such Union for six mouths In the ease Common v. Bees (respondent) the former gained the verdict, but an appeal has now been made bv the other side.