COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 534, 20 November 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. The Wesleyan district meeting has commenced Bitting. The Rev. W. Lee waa chosen aa chairman. A boy named Cdcutt was shockingly mangled at the Chelsea sugar works to day, one leg aud one arm being amputated. Sir George Grey has been ordered away from Auckland till after the elections, on account of hia health. There was no Auckland butter amongst tho Tongariro’s shipment, which turned out so badlv. The Liberal Committee have selected Sir George Grey and Mr Rees as two of their candidates. The locally.owned mare Dilosa (by Lee. linus—Lure) won the Warwick Farm Handicap, run at Sydney on Saturday last. A very successful Industrial Exhibition in connection with the Sunday School Union has opened here, and will continue for a week. > Mr McLaurin, teacher of the Waitekawi school, has died very suddenly, SOUTHERN NEWS.

Last night. The lonic arrived at Wellington ou Tuesday. Christian Hansen, of Oxford, near Chris'church, was found hanging to the rafters in a shed, dead. Tha new cargo steamer Mantua, of the Shaw-Bivi!l line, left Port Chalmers fur Writara, Taranaki, to load frozen meat for London.

St. Andrew and Queen of Trumps have been scratched for the Dunedin Cup. George Steadman, a miner at Nelson, aged 70, committed suicide on Friday by blowing his head tq pieces with a dynamite cap. He was getting past work, snd dreaded falling back on the Charitable Aid Board, The wrestling contest at Dunedin, between Punn and Ross, is undecided, each scoring a talk’ It win be resumed next week, Lord ihjslow has issued a circular to the Masonic Tpdges, with the object of restoring unanimiiy atnougsl the craft.

Mr Philip Putman, of the Public Works Department, who was thrown from bis trap at Wellington on Monday night, died in the Hospital at noon to day. Deceased yyag choirmaster pf St. Mary’s Cathedral, «,nd ooqdhctor of Wellington Operatic Society. At New Plymouth Judge Kettle gave judgment on an alleged breach nf the Licensing Act relative to unlawful games being carried on in licensed houses. He said poker under the Act became an unlawful game if played in a public place, hut he douoted whether the parlor of an hotel was a public place within the meaning of the Gaining and Lotteries Act. Tfij case was dismissed.