NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 596, 18 April 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. Georze Williams was burnt to death through his whare catching fire at Mangawai. Contracts are being let for felling about 3,800 acres of bush on the Te Aku run, near Raglan, in sections of from 200 to 400 acres each. Proposals have been made to the City Council for lighting the city by electricity, and a special meeting is to be called next week. The Chrysanthemum Show which opened yesterday, is the best ever held here. There is a splendid show of blooms, SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. Sir Harry Atkinson reached New Plymouth to day. At the Wellington races Queen of Trumps won the Autumn Handicap, Retina second, and La Petite Fille third. In connection with the enquiry into the wreck of the Wanaka, the Court decided that Captain Meades wgs guilty of an error of judgment in not slowing down, and keeping the vessel’s head more to sea, and not casting the lead. The captain's and chief officer's certificates were returned, but the captain was ordered to pay the costs of the enquiry. The residence of Mr Williamson, teacher of the public school at Waipuwa, was destroyed by fire at five this morning. Nothing was saved. Mr and Mrs Williamson only escaped in their nightclothes. Clark, the absconding Secretary of the Prince oi Wales Lodge o! Oddfellows at Port Chalmers, has been at Sydney, Ths Kabu, from the Chathams, reports that a white pine gsff, with a yard of apparently new canvas attached, was found at Terak. It is supposed to be tbs Kakanui's gear, Mr MoKellar, Inspector of Customs, has obtained twelve months’ leave of absence. The duties will be undertaken by Mr W. T. Glasgow. The direct steamer Ruapehu arrived at Hobart from London yesterday slternoon. The Greymouth section of the Grey, Hokitika railway has been laid off for the Kumars unemployed. In a few days another eeotion will be laid off for the Hokitika unamployed. Tbe men are to ba paid Government schedule rates for earth work. At Timaru yesterday morning the boiling down shop at Waehdyks was found’to bo on firs. It was a large building, with plant and machinery, the property of Mr J, W. Watt, of Christchurch,

Mr Philip Corlis, for many years accountant at tbe Wellington poet office, died at eight o’clook this morning, aged 80, f.om inflammation of the bowels. Deceased bad only been ailing a few daysThe statement of Ipbllltien and assets in tbg estate of the late J. B. Gressqn, apliaitor, Christehurcfl, who woe killed on the railway, has been filed, It afiows a deficiency of The stranded steamer Wanaka maintains her position, and the weather is still fine. The plqnt to float, her off is expected to day. The Gazette notifies that the services of Inspectors Atchison, A.} Thomson, Kiely, Qoodq,l]> and J. G. I'ok, chief clerk in the policy department, wifi be dispensed with at the expiration of the leave ajlowed them on J uno 30. I Parliament will probably be called to. gather for the despatch of business on Thursday, June 4. Government have decided on making s'ill further retrenchment, and the services oi a number of officers (hroughout the colony, in the Survey and Steak and Lande Departments, are to be dispensed with. The caving is eetimated at £9OOO per annum, but the details are not to be permitted to be mads public until those retrenched receive notice I rnm the Government, Jvhd Young, 10 yean of age, a hrm

laborer, was drowned in a creek at Brighton, Otago, yesterday. Deceased, despite the warning of his fellow servants, insisted on trying to take a sensational leap over the deepest part of a creek, and though he landed on the opposite bank he fell back into ten feet of water, and being unable to swim be waa drowned. A nice dispute is waging in Wellington between two lawyers. Messrs Jellicos and Vogel both say they have been retained in the case of Aldridge, whose sentence has been selected to test the legality of Judge Edwards’ power to adjudicate.