NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 619, 11 June 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

AUCKLAND. Last night. Sir George Grey, who has arrived from Sydney, was presented with an address of welcome to-night. It is believed he will oppose the Ballance Ministry, but support their Liberal measures. A man named Holmes, a painter, died suddenly at Aratapu. He had broken a blood vessel previously. Beart, collector of rates at Dargaville, has been committed for trial for embezzling/120 of County funds. Ngaharuru, one of the Rotorua chiefs, died last night from the effects of falling into a boiling spring. Captain Skinner, owner and master of the schooner Gisborne, has gone up to Whangaroa to bring down his new schooner, the Awanui. She is a vessel of 95 tons. He will himself run her in the East Coast trade, while Captain George Page, late of the schooner Awaraa, and ketch Agnes Martin, will have charge of the Gisborne. NAPIER. Last night. The body of James Chadwick haa been found in the Pohi bush. He disappeared from Bakamoana on the 11th of January, when Matheson was killed, and was generally suspected of being the murderer. Chadwick’s remains were found at the foot of a tree on the top of the cliff. An arm bone was picked up in the bush, and farther search revealed the rest of the body near at hand. The head and arms had been pulled about by wekas, but the clothing protected the rest of the bo.dy, and kept it intact. Around the neck was a flax noose, the re mainder of the rope being attached to a branch of the tree above. It seems evident now that after murdering Matheson, Chadwick took to the bush, and climbed the cliff, whence he could sea his own whare, and also the people searching for him. He had been overpowered, probably by dread and remorse, and hanged himself. Chissell Bros , who recently took over the hairdressing business of N. Jacobs, have been adjudicated bankrupts. SOUTHERN NEWS. Last night. The Caversham Licensing Committee refused licenses to the Caversham, Commercial, and Kensington hotels. The steamer Rotokino arrived at the Bluff from Hobart. The 'passengers include the Gaiety Theatrical Company. A new condition is to be inserted in Government contracts, providing that each tender must be accompanied by a declaration by the contractor that he will pay the current rate of wages for similar work in the locality, and recognise the eight hours as a days’ labor. At a meeting of the Roslyn Licensing Committee all the licenses were granted for 12 months, after which no licenses will be issued. Ej. White, a shunter on the Westport railway, was killed this afternoon. He slipped, and the tram ran over him. At the Invercargill Police Court, Timothy Regan was charged with sheep stealing, and remanded till Friday. Already 300,000 sacks of grain have been carried on the Southland railways this season, to Invercargill and the Bluft. The Wellington Trades and Labor Council highly approves of the principles of the Industrial Conciliation Bill. There is a peculiar case now before Judge Richmond. W. J. Meek, a widower, aged 66, was four months after his wife died engaged to Alice Attwood, a spinster, but the engagement was broken off, and he sued for the return of presents valued at £7O, with damages. Plaintiff had married again. The case had to be adjourned through the defendant's counsel fainting. The Conciliation Bill is being printed, and will be distributed as fast as the copies come to hand. The provisions have met with the approval of those bodies to which so far it has been subrqitted. The Gear Meat Company has declared a half-yearly dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum. At the annual licensing meeting at Wanganui, out of 18 applications, four were refused on the ground of not being required. Ten houses were granted 10 o’clock licenses, and four 11 o’clock. Mr Justice Denniston has upheld the election of the Sydenham Prohibition Committee, but holds that the law never contemplated the wholesale refusal of licenses, and that prohibition under the present Act is illegal. The Public Trust Commission finding it impossible to get the necessary returns for the purpose of reporting in time, has applied again for an extension of time, and the Government has consented to grant another fortnight. John Howard Wallace, one of the oldest identities in Wellingon, died yesterday from heart disease, aged 75. Mr Wallace arrived in Wellington in 1840. The Green Island hotel, at Dunedin, was burnt down yesterday. The occupants had some difficulty in!|making| their