NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 614, 30 May 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

AUCKLAND. _ Last night. The Union Company has advloes that the Te Kapo was quarantined at Sydney with one case of measles on board, but has 11UW been released. News has been received that the apple* by the Coptic brought 5s 64 to 10s fid per ease. The Te Anau, which left for South to day, took as passengers for Gisborne — Misses Brown and McCauley, Messrs Espio. Lawrv. and Turnbull. The Salvation Army has purchased a property at Otahuhu, where they propose to establish a home for the fallen. Mr J. B. McDonald, a delegate from the Australian shearers, bae arrived here, He intends to tour the Colony, and enlist the sympathy of shearers in the cause. Madame Patey’e concerts here are a great success. Immense audiences assemble nightly. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last nigbt, Recent changes in the Commissioners Crown Lands Office are gazetted. Mr Spences place in Westland will be taken by H. S. Tranchon. The death is announced of Chas. Pitt Cholomondoley, one of the original founders of the Canterbury settlements, who arrived in one of the first four ships on the 16th of December, 1850. He was 61 years of age, and was never marled. Death was due to » species of paralysis. In the railway returns for the mouth, passengers have showed a decrease of 55,062, compared with the same period of 1890 ; but in live stock, and goods, except wool and grain, there was an increase of 841. Fewer bales of wool were carried, and 12,562 fewer tone of grain. In tbe Wellington Supreme Conrt this morning, the Chief Justice delivered judgment in tbe case of Richardson and others versus the owners of tbe ship Rangitikei, The claim was for salvage arising in Napier roadstead, where the ship was in danger through the anchor parting. His Honor decided that £lOOO should be paid to the owners, master, and crew of the steamers Fanny, and Abnriri, who went to the assistance of the Rangitike l , Judgment carried costs. At the meeting of tbe Christchurch Acclimatisation Society last evening, the Chairman said he did not think there was any use obtaining any mors feathered game, as stoats and weasels, were brought ty every steamer. Letters were read from Hawera, Geraldine, Marlborough, Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Southland, and Gisborne societies, enclosing cheques amounting to £3B 6s towards the prosecution of the Maori fishing case. The Sydenham election case Is exciting considerable 'lnterest, the court being well filled with the public, among whom are q number of ladles,