TELEGRAMS.
* [united fbxsb association.] Gisborne, Ist May. Complaints are general as to the excessive ohargos for bringing cases before the Commission under the Native Land Act of last session. Many persons are withholding, in the hope that Parliament will during the coming session reduoe tbe charges.' For basing the Harbonr Board endowment and the Taniwbarepar&e Block of 41.150 acres, so far only fonr tenders have been reoeived, applying for 7700 acres at 2d to 2}d per aore rental. Auckland. Ist May. The vessel to be built for the Melaneaian mission is to cost .£9OOO. An assay of stone from Puhipnhi is said to have yielded 2770z of silver to the ton. The Key. Georgo Preston, of Napier, was inducted to-night as incumbent of St. Mary's Anglioan Church, Parnell. It is reported that aa Australian syndicate intends to build and conduct an hotel of 200 rooms at Rotorua. The City Council have finally declined the application of Jagger and Parker for permission to use tbe snrplus water at Edgecombe Creek, one of the aonrces of the city water supply, for fellmongery purposes. Several cases of influenza prevail at Otahuhn. Napier, Ist May. At tho monthly meeting of the Scinde Lodge, the oldest Masonic Lodge in Hawke's Bay, last night, thera was a large attendance of members and visitors. A resolution congratulating the craft on the formation of a Grand Lodge of New Zealand was carried by acclamation. Invebcarqill, Thiß Dat. There are 70 men on the goldfield at Preservation Inlet. The weather is bad, interfering with prospecting on the mainland.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1890, Page 2
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259TELEGRAMS. Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1890, Page 2
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