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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 678, 29 October 1891, Page 2

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The acceptances for the Melbourne Cup are as follows :—Tirailleur, Sir William, Megaphone, Highborn, Gnaroo, Correze, Greygown, Paris, Whimbrel, Malvolio, Tantallon, King Olaf, Annesley, Lyndhurst, Muriel, Prelude, Litigant, Gatling, Stromboli, The Tyler. Yowi, Cobham, Oxide, Ronald, Dundas, Carrington, Forest King, Yarran, Nwordbearer, Lanoer, I'ortywink-, Strathmore, Astor, Bel Giorno, Firelock, Pigeontoe, and Portsea. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS AUCKLAND Last Night, Mr Risysr4 Kipling has arrived here. The Juvenile Opera Company let> last night for Sydney. The sohooner Awaroa arrived here to-day from Gisborne. Mr Frank Lawry got a vote of oonflJaaoe at Parnell to-night. The Government Offices were alt closed here to-day for no better reason than that Labor Day was being observed in the South, Mr Cox, Irish delegate, has gone tq Sydney. He says the mission in New Zealand has been fairly sacoes-fu'. The Thames is agitating the question of extending the pumping depths, so as to work at lower levels than has hitherto been possible. Steps are being taken to establish freezing woks at Frankton, or some other part of Waikatq. A number of parents were punished by the Magistrate to-day, at the instance ot the Truant Officer, for neglecting to send their children to eohool. Enquiries prove that a Maori girl supposed to have been murdered by her father because she would not have Che lover he chose for her, really died from fever. The people at Tauranga are agitating tq have H M.B. Tauraoga sent to that port, SOUTHERN NEWS. Leet night.* The Governor and Lady Onslow visited Timaru to-day. The Ship Hotel at Pioton, licensed by Charles Godfrey, has been burnt down. Mrs Hally, tbe first white woman to settle at Invercargill, bas died, at ths age of 81, There was a large attendance at the South Canterbury Agricultural Show, which opened at Timaru to-lay. A conference of boot manufacturer! and employees is proceeding at Christchurch, bat

tbe proceedings are private. Tbs Premier having spokan at Christchurch, visited Timaru, and is now on big way North, At the Dunedin Presbyterian Bynod the report on the state ot religion slated that the replies as to tbe Churches' hold on the young men were not quite satisfactory. The relationship ot young women wav much more satis} ictory, The Scar Cafe, in Morey Place, Dunedin, occupied by Mrs McKinnon and owned by Mr Herman Dodd, has been burned down, About 800 people witnessed the unveiling by the Premier of the memorial atone to the late Richard Turnbull, in the Timaru cemetery. Tbe etone is a white marble obelisk, paid for by shilling subscriptions. Captain fjolm, of the barque G. M. Tucker, now at Wellington, and who was part owner ot the missing New Zealand barque Kentish Lass, states that the particulars published in tbe Neweastla papers ot tbe wreckage found last March at Maiavta Island, Solomon Group, corresponds with the description of the missing vessel. The report of Mr Mr-Lean, who was ap* pointed to inquire into tbe so-called Taqranga sheep disease, (has been received and published. From the report there appears to be no unusual disease prevailing amongst ths sheep. Parasites common to all she. p were found, and sheep fl,- Erternal parasites are reported to be prevalent to au extent denoting a great amount of carelessner-s amongst owners. Labor Day was ma>ie a great holiday tn Wellington, Christchurch, an-i Dunedin. 1 Replying tn an appliustion from tbe Mas'ercon Committee, stating that several clergymen had a-rsed leave to wive religious instruction in .cehool b >urs, the Wellington Education Board stated the position tn be that any clergyman could arrange ro give instruction after hours, but attendance must not be compulsory. Tbe First states that private letters received in Wellington during the pact few days state that considerable dissatisfaction is caused amongst the traders in the finutti Sag Islands at the man, er in which Mr F. Ji Moss, British Resident at Raratonga, is exercising hie functions. Representations on ths subject are being made to the Netf wetland Government.