NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 656, 8 September 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

AUCKLAND Last Night. George Ellis, a young man, has been remanded to Wellington on a charge of forgery. The Auckland footballers defeated the Thames by 11 points to nil. The Anck. land representative team left for Wanganui and New Plymouth to day. James MacFarlane, convicted of an indecent assault on a married woman at Opotiki, was sentenced to nine months’ penal servitude, Mr B. B. Lusk, formerly Provincial Auditor, and a very old identity, hafi died at the age of 94 Mr Thomas Sibbin was playing the Association game of football at Epsom, when he fell backward over another player, U«d injured his neck, dying in an hour. He was a member of the firm Sibbin and Brown, printers, and District Chief Hanger of the Foresters. Richard Walsh, assistant bailiff at the B.M. Court, committed ouioide by shooting himself. Family troubles were the cause. It transpired at the inquest that the wife was dead ; his sister had taken to a bad course of life, and so also had the eldest daughter (aged 15), who is now in the Salvation Army Horae. Ellen Howard, a young woman, has been committed for trial, on a charge of stealing from a pawn shop money securities and jewellery of the value of .£1338. SQUTHHIRN NEWS. Last night. More wreckage h»s been washed ashore lately nt the Chatbams, including a pine epat with wire rigging attached. The Alameda, with English mails of the Bth August, left San Francisco for Auckland the 21st August, one day late. The Mariposa, with ’ the colonial mails of 171 h Au net, arrived from Auckland on the Bth inst, contract time. In the case of Goldie v. the Ellis Steam §hip Company, at Wellington, claim £2O for loss of luggage, the Resident Magistrate, Mt Robinson, ruled, orj Supreme Court authority, that he bitci no jurisdiction to dispose of the case. The Bands' contest is fixed for Novemoer £Sth. Mr Trimmel!, of Wellington, hat been appointed sole judge, and Mr Mills, of supervisor. The test piece is now 1 in the nandg of the Mayor of Dunedin, and will be issued to competing bands on September 2fith. Fourteen bands will compete. and £7O will bo SY?P towards prizes by Dunedin firms, A shocking fatal accident occurred on Saturday at the Otamokawa Block, 25 miles north of Hunterville. Kevern and Ash were felling trees. They h?d cut the front scarf with an axe, and had sawn the back, and were standing behind as it tell, when it slipped back over the stumps. Severn was struck insensible, and two hours afterwards, when ho recovered .oousciousncss, hc|found

the tree had cut the body of Ash in halves. The remains have to be carried fifteen miles through the bushjjbefore they can be put on a conveyance.