NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 605, 9 May 1891, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Lest night. Tbe Hon. R, Seddon arrived herefrom Te Aroba this afternoon. Ha meets tbe Volunteer officers this eventng to discuss defence matters. Guard Hanson, employed on the Waikato train, lost an arm yesterday, through an accident while shunting. Mr Vesey Stewart has announced himself as a candidate for the Te Aroha seat. Mr John McKenzie is at Rotorua, where he has gone in relation to certain grievances. At Wbangarei an inque-t has been held on the bones of a man or woman, which probably have been lying in tha bush for a century, and a verdict that death was caused by some person unknown was returned. The affair.caused great amusement. Robert Mackie, of the Salvation Army, and a late resident of Auckland, was drowned in the Wanganui river, SOUTHERN NEWS.

Last night. The disclosures by the Gisborne Harbor defalcations has fixed attention on the Audit Department. Copies of tha Labor Bill are being forwarded to the Trades Councils, the Employers' Associations, and the Maritime Councils, and copies will be supplied to any other bodies interested, on application to the Department of Justice. At a meeting of the Wellington Tailoresses’ Union evidence was brought forward proving that a shocking system of sweating prevails in certain shops in the city, more particularly in some of the smaller establishments. Colonel Lean and Major Gascoigne, sheriffs of Christchurch and Auckland respectively, have received notice that their services are to be dispensed with from the Ist June, and their duties will be undertaken by a local Registrar. At the Dunedin High School a silver cup was presented to the pupil George Thompson for his gallant attempt to save the life of his schoolmate, Zebrun, who was drowned by the upsetting of a boat in April. A man named Pearce was killed near Halcombe yesterday. The waggon he was driving capsized over a bank, and fell on him.