NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 661, 19 September 1891, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

AUCKLAND. Last Night, The bootmakers' strike cost £6OOO before it collapsed. The Union is said to have been swamped by about 80 unionists who came in from the country and had to be given strike pay. The Premier of Tonga has arrived here. Things are quiet at the Islands The City Council passed a resolution that it sees no necessity for the Auckland Elec trie Lighting Bill just passed by Parliament.

J. A. Haultain, solicitor, left for ’Frisco by the mail boat, without saying good bye to friends. Mr Willoughby Brassey is said to have been a passenger by the same boat. To morrow the football matches are for the benefit of the widow and family of T. G. Sibbin (killed last Saturday week, while playing the Association game). SOUTHERN NEWS. Bast night. By the explosion of a small boiler in Mr Mantell’a dentistry, nt Wellington, Miss Boiler was severely scalded. Annie Belinda Ralp, 62 years, wife of a blacksmith at Dunedin, died suddenly yesterday afternoon. Mr Mitchell, District Grand Secretary, was notified by mail yesterday morning that the Prince of Wales, G.M, of England, had appointed Mr Peter Cunningham, of Christchurch, District Grand Master of the Canterbury District Freemasons under the E.O. John William Jackson has been committed for trial at Christchurch for passing counterfeits in the style of a gilded sixpence for half a sovereign, He victimised several tradespeople, The Property Tax valuation on land will be made this year on November Ist, instead of October Ist. Applications are being invited by the Department from competent valuers who are willing to act as assessors. It is intended in the more important districts to appoint Inspecting 'tssesssors, who will confer with the Assessors. By this method it is hoped a uniform estimate of (land values will be arrived at. James Davie, a New Plymouth ironmonger, Was found dead in the ornamental water in the recreation ground this morning, and his clothes were at the bathing house. It is presumed be bsd gone for a bath early in the morning and bad a cramp in the water. He was sixty years old, and well-known over the colony from the interest he took in sporting affaire.