COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 383, 28 November 1889, Page 2

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Napier, last night. Mr Henry Ellison, surveyor, has been appointed editor ot the Waipawa Mail (in place of Mr Hornsby, resigned), and commences his duties on Monday,

A meeting of the creditors of Major Slinsgby Bell was held thia morning, Tha bankrupt's statement as to the causes of his filing was to the effect that it was occasioned by lassos incurred in the saw milling business, depreciation of properties, and being pushed to pay off his liabilities to the Colonial and National Bank. Ha believed tha estate, if not unduly pressed into the market, would realise sufficient to pay the creditors in full. Tha meeting adjourned to sth December, Ghkymouth, last night.

A firo this morning destroyed eight buildings in Boundary street. Very little was saved and most of the proprietors lost all. Tha Commercial Hotel, one of tha buildings burned down, was insured for £BQO, and the furniture £3OO. The other insurances are not known. Auckland, last night.

The Southern Cross, Melanesian mission schooner, arrived from the Islands to-day, after a four months’ cruise, and reports everything quiet. Wellington’, last night. The scratching of Tirailleur for „ the Exhibition Cup (Dunedin races), Caused much surprise here, as he was the popular pick, both straight out and in doubles.

Mr Courtenay, of Taranaki, leaves for London by tbe Kaikoura, to bring his sixth and last batch ot immigrants to the colony. At a meeting last evening, it was decided to make a thorough canvass of the city tor subscriptions in aid of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the colony on January 22nd, The journeymen bakers held a meeting last evening, and decided to establish a Union on the same lines as the Dunedin Union. Dunedin, Nov. 27. At a meeting of the Loyal Orange Institution yesterday the following resolution was passed Having learned that the men have been employed in tha Government workshops and Exhibition buildings during the last and some previous Sundays, ths Loyal Orange Institution expresses strong disapprobation of the conduct of Government and the Commissioners, in requesting man to work on Sundays, on pain of dismissal, and consider it an infringement of the social and moral rights and privileges of the working classes,"

The ceremony of opening the Exhibition took place yesterday, shortly before noon, and passed off without a hitch, unless a delay caused by the very great length of the procession could be so termed.

The following is the result of the Exhibition Cup Occident, 1; St, James, 2; and Wakatipu, 3.