COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 547, 20 December 1890, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. News is to.hand of an earthquake at Friendly Islands. Colonel Carr has been married here to Lady Chute, widow of General Chute. An enqtfiry will be held on Monday into the charges against Dr Collins, of the Hospital. , Raymond Webb, mining and theatrical agent, was committed for trial on a charge of forgery, in the Supreme Court to-day. At Buckland’s wool sale to-day prices obtained for coarse wools were much the same as at last sales, while ‘finer wools sold at a slight advance, Merinos ranged as high as 8d per lb for one parcel ; crossbred wools averaged from 6d to 6% d per lb. The late New Zealand Stud Company sale has been altered from Saturday to Monday, Jth January. This is in consequence of the inward San Francisco mail steamer being due to arrive on the evening preceding the sale. This afte't-noon John'Wright, who had been cutting grass in Wellington, remarked oh the heat of the weather, threw up his arms, and fell down dead. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. The case Tanner v. Northern Investment Company is expected to be concluded to-morrow night. The French warship Volta left Wellington for Auckland to-day. A man named Jas. Harrell was drowned at Christchurch yesterday while attempting to cross the Hurunui, near Culverden. A patient at Christchurch Hospital, who was admitted on Sunday, and gave the name of James Davis, disappeared from the institution on Sunday night. No trace has since been found of him. When last seen he was dressed only in trousers, shirt, and socks. A bankrupt named Bernard Ginsbery, who kept a store at Nenthorne, Otago, has been committed for trial for failing to account to the Official Assignee for the whole of his property. On inquiry by the Wellington Land Board into the case of alleged dutnmyism at Dry River, the Board resolved that it was to the best interest of all selectors, the conditions not being complied with, to recover the arrears due, and to throw tfie land open at an early date. All arrangements in connection with the New Zealand Chess Congress to be held at Welliogton this year are completed. Play commences on the 26th. A fine heavy rain at Oamaru has been falling for 12 hours, with every prospect of a continuance. The benefit to the country districts is) inestimable. The entries for the interprovincial bicycle races at Christchurch on Boxing Day number 267, this being the largest ever received at a cycle meeting in the colony. .; An extensive case pf sheep.stealihg is reported from Birdsling, Little River. One man implicated, turned against his mates, and all have been arrested. The case comes off on the 24th.