NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 589, 2 April 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. ■William Veitoh, who was assaulted and robbed at Wairoa South, haa died, and Robert Fry, who was identified by the deceased as his assailant, is in custody on a charge of murder. Deceased's watch was found in his possession. Leoni and Eva Gillespie were out picnicking at the Thames with other girls yesterday, and went out over their depth, and were drowned, SOUTHERN NEWS. Last nigbt. A young man named Otto Campton, while engaged in the excavation of some ground at the new lunatic asylum at Pourua, Wellington, on Monday, was buried alive under a fall of earth. He was taken out, and brought to the hospital, where he died yesterday afternoon. A child named James Mac Kay, aged two and a half years, was drowned in a tub of water standing in a back yard at Christchurch. The mother and child were on a visit from Dipton, Southland. Iu the cricket match at Wellington Blachloch and Moorhouse oarried tbe total to within one of the number required, when Blaokfooh was bowled. Iu the next over Moorhouse made the winning hit, Wellington thus defeated Canterbury by 8 wiokets. The Denniston unemployed miners, to whom the Minister of Public Works gave one of the sections of the Mokibimu Railway at the usual rates, are preparing to take up the contract. The Westport unemployed have set to work on three sections given to them, the work being carried on under the co-operative system. Mr Harkness, JlHtt,, who is now on a visit to New Plymouth, stated dnring a speech there that he had purchased a farm in the Taranaki, and intended residing upon it. The authorities of the Otago University haye appointed BJr John Thomson as lecturer on applied mechanics at that Institution. He was formerly in charge of tbe Gisborne and New Plymouth harbor works. William Campbell, miner, was killed in the Bendigo mine, Cromwell, Otago, on Saturday. He was carrying dynamite in a bucket, and lighted a candle, when an exploeion occurred, and Campbell was killed. The annual meeting of the delegates of tbe New Zealand Post and-Telegraph Officers* Society was formally opened at Wellington. A letter was forwarded to the Secretary of tbe Department, asking tor an interview with the Postmaster. General, to arrange a basis on which recognition of the Society will be n)ade. Frederick Hall, one of the spieling fraternity, was sentenced to eight mouths’ imprisonment for etealing totalisator tickets horn a man at Riocartau raoecouree,