NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 593, 11 April 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. Floyd, or Fry, has baen committed for trial for the murder of William Veitch. Local and Southern flour has advanced 20s a ton. The Native Minister left for Wellington via the East Coast, by the Waihora. The direct steamer Maori is here loading frozen meat for London. Mr Alexander Watson has been awarded £l5OO for land taken for defence purposes. Robert Turner, second-hand dealer of the Thames, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for receiving stolen property. The dead body found in Douglas Bay has been identified as that of Edward Stribling, of Wangaroa. Deceased was a single man, and had no relations in the colony. The Ngaruhoe volcano has been in violent eruption lately, and on Monday, the 23r<l of March, a terrific explosion took place on the south western side of the cone. Ever since the mountain has been vomiting clouds of steam The explosion on the date mentioned took place about noon, and later in the day there was a heavy fall of snow, the appearance of the volcanic peak being considerably altered by the eruption. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. The Hon. Mr Buckley left Wellington for Auckland to attend the Executive meeting. Southwood, the tourist who was lost on Mount Egmont, is still misssng. The wile of Mr Canon, living near Waipawa, was run over by a train, and killed. Justice Denniston holds ih.t a Road Board is not liable for the non-repair of a road which has never been either formed or metalled. It is reported in Wellington that Mr W. S. Allen, recently unseated for Te Aroha, ha. been prohibited from voting or standing for the House for twelve monihs. Koch lymph will be tried at the Dunedin Hospital on Tuesday. A second free public reading room, fur. mshed by r.n anonymous lady, has been opened at Dunedin. The Medical Conference at Nelson has decided to seek legislation to secure higher professional educa'inn in me oniony. The Tekapo, Jubilee, and Hauroto, which sailed yesterday from Wellington to Sydney, took 81 saloon ami 92 eieerage pa.eengsre. At Dunedin Mr Justice Williams dis missed the suit hy Mr Wilkinson, solicitor, against the Kaikorai School Commit tee, on the grounds that the Committee is nut a corporate body, and therefore not justifi-d applying funds in the payment of coats of litigation. The actual surplus on the year will be about £lOO,OOO. This is exclusive of the surplus of the land fund, which will just about balance the previous deficit.

Mr Henry H. Goughton, German Consul, of Dunedin, is dead.

A meeting of unemployed at Dunedin this morning was attended by over 100, when the Minister of Public Works’ telegram was considered. It was generally considered that ths gangs were too large, but the rite of wages was approved of, and the men expressed their willingness ti go to work. At the inquest ou Jonathan Snow, at Oiltram, the jury found that death was occasioned by laudanum poisoning, self administered. There was inauffici-nt evidence to show whet her It was administered as medicine or with the intention of suicide. The Trades aud Labor Council of New Sou’h Wales, in reply to a request from the Wellington Trade Council, that they ehould take the initiative in aco >rding a pul lie send off to Sir George Grey on hie leaving Sydhey, state that In the present feeble state of Sir George Grey’s health it is inadvisable to take any action oa*oulated to excite the feelings of the revered statesman. They have, however, expressed to Sir George Grey the grateful feelings of the workmen in that colony towards him. The Wanaka lies ou lhe north aide of the' reef, and is therefore in a sheltered position during the present westerly weather, but if a northerly gale springs up there is no doubt the vessel would go to pieces. Those who have inspected the vessel 'slosely say her bottom is flattened nut. She has a big hole under the stern, about three feet of her iron being carried away. Maoris who have been on board state that there is a quantity of sand in the fore part of the vessel. Nothing will be done to attempt to float the vessel till the weather moderates. A nautical enquiry into the wreck will commence to-morrow before lhe Resident Magistrate and Nautical As sbMiW,