COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 557, 15 January 1891, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. liHst night. The R'eamar Wairarapa arrival mt from Sydney, but bus no passengers for Gj—borne. Mr John Whit*, who has been 49 y«nrs in the colony, and ftU’horof the Ancient History of the Maori, die ! suddenly in bed, it ie boHeved from hea tdiwpafte. The Maiipona, with the next inward mail®, left ’Fri<co on Monday laßt, two dav«lat«. Prnawoutions are proceeding against a number of drivers oi horses having serious sores on them. AttheN.Z. Insurance Company’s meeting to-day the report was adopted, and the retiring direc’ors re-elected. To-day ihree Auckland firme held their third wool .-f th ■ season. Messrs Hunter and Nolan offered 450 bales, all of which were sold wi»h the exception of two or three. Home of the finer sorts of won! realised Id per lb more than ’he prices realised at last sale. Messrs Buckland and Sons report having offered 600 bales to-day, and sei ing 460 bates. The prices were a trifle lower if anything 'han at tne previous sales. The buyers were the same as at the first, sale. The following paeseng rs have bonked for Gisborne by rhe steamer Wairazapa, leaving to-morrow: Miss Tanks; Messrs W. J Geddis. Teague, and Wood head; Mr aud Mrs Westney. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. Sir Dillon Bell will represent New Zealand at the Postal Conference iu Vienna. Sir Harry Atkinson has returned to Wellington, The Opposition Whip has issued a notice requesting members of that party to meet in Wellington not later than the 22nd, the day before the opening of Parliament. A letter has been received from Sir Julius Vogel, stating that he has partially recovered from the accident he met with some months since, but that there is no likelihood of his returning to the colony for some years to oome. Ministers are considering a proposal made to them within the last few days to give some assistance towards the settlement of 200 Nova Scotia families in this colony. I'he matter will probably be brought before Parliament. It is said the Hon. John Bryce will be the Government nominee for the office of Speaker of the House of idHpresenta'ives ; that Major Steward will he nominated by the leader of the Opposition; that Mr Fisher will be nominated by members as spokesman of an influential section of the Hou-<6 which includes some members of the present Opposition and the whole of the Labor party. H.M.S, Curacoaleft Dunedin for the Bluff, and after proceeding round the West Coas nbe will rivet h* flagship in Auckland, about a fortnight hwnoe. Messrs Mat sou and Co. have sold he Like Coiernlge station, Canterb try, comp iling 2 487 aC Hs freeho d, 54 000 acres leaseho d, an i 18 000 m-rino ewws, to Mr John Mur cbison, lor £13,000 cash

The Minister of Lands, who has returned from a vinit to New Plymouth, has written to the Benevolent Ins itacinn to the efface that mere is a scarcity of labor along the W«*st Coast of this Island, and the trustees to-day decided fa send ihep* any abl®*bodied men applying for relief. Government have called their supporters to meet them the day before Parliament assembles, It is stated that arrangements for strengthening the Council and the appointment to the Speakership of that body will be submitted to the meeting. The values of the principal agricultural exports for the years 1889 and 1890 are as fallows : -Wool 1889, £3 976 375 ; 1890. £4,150,599. Meat—£B9o,l46. £1.238,641 Butter — £146,840, £122 690. Cheese—£67.los, £84,986. Grain — £970.659 £1,007,025. T0ta15—£6,051.125, £6,603.844. The Kaiiway Commissioners are making preparations for taking over the Gorge section of the Napier-AVellington line, and it is expected the line will be open for traffic about the end of ’he month There wU be one through train from each end. Two young Norwejgan sailors on the German oatque Rialto were drinking ashore at Timaru, and after returning to the vessel they quarrelled. One named Olsen stabbed the other, named Hopper, five nr six tim u s with a sheato knife in the neck and body. One or two wound® in the chest are serious, but it is not expected the result will be fata). Otaen was arrested.

A rather severe ebnok of earthquake was felt in WellingLun at 11.87 last night. At the eignal ion aad heads the shock was unusually sharp, and was accompanied by a loud rumbling noise. The direction was uucertaio, as it was more of the nature of an upheaval or jerk. At a meeting of the Christchurch Hospital Board (his morning a letter was read from Dr Stewart, suggesting the formation of a consulting stsif in connection with 'the honorary medical <Laff. H® pointed out ths grcit advantage of the of so ex« perienaed a body when required. The Invsroargill wool sales were well ipoffitad. Four thousand one hundred bales

were •ff red. Bidding was spirited, the opening rate’s exceeding the valuA'ion by Ka f a penny to a penny per pound. Q mtations for fleece wee from 7j i f>r <ow quality to ll£i for light well wool; Leinster, 7| Ito 8J I; Merino, from 74 to 8 I. A tourists’ house is, shortly to b u erected halfway up Mount Egm mt, and a good road made to enable visitors tn ascend the top without much labor. The Minister of Lands, when there, said he sew the necessity of reopening np .’he country, and hie views on h m »tter are very popular in all pans of ihe district.