NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 569, 12 February 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. Tho steamer Mararoa, which arrived from Sydney last night, has no saloon passengers for Gisborne. The Huntley disaster fund is assuming very substantial proportions. The bootmakers to-day voted £2O. Eperama Timuta Kupu, a Government supporter, has been elected for the Northern Maori district, vice Sydney Taiwhnnga. A tdegram from Opotiki says that Dennis McDevitt, a surface man employed on tbe Gisborne road, has been killed by a horse kicking him. The Rev. Father Kehoe, who is in charge of the Gisborne parish, arrived in Auckland on Monday, and has left for Rotorua. He is in a bad state of health. The Hospital Commission sat yesterdav, but the proceedings were adjourned till Friday. A large number of witnesses are being subpomaod. Robert Dillon, a man of 80 years, wss shooting rats to-day, when the pistol exploded, and he was seriously injured in the face by a piece of metal. A proposal is on foot to bridge the Waitemats between Northcote and Ponsonby, at a cost of £15,000. Robert Kurtz, who commenced business here as a tailor, was the subject of an application for an extradition warrant to-day on the ground that he was a defaulting mL? riftn b°°l !lria ker. Decision was reserved. The schooner Gisborne arrived here yesterday from Gisborne and East Coast. Pressure having been brought to bear upon Government, they have reverted to the former arrangement, and the Mariposa will .t a ’n„ W I lh - the ’ l ’ rißCo maita on Saturday, the 28tb, instead of Monday, the 23rd. A meeting here to form a Board of Conciliation adjourned because trade unionists would not sit with knighte of labor. Sir George Grey is on his way from Batorua to Auckland. At the Supremo Court, in the case of J l °P’ h 3 £ nm “ raro a nd others v. New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company, Mr Cooper applied for a summons to set aside an order for a special jury. Hia TTnnnr ordered that the trial should be heard by a mixed jury of which the European portion are to be treated as special jurors. napieb. „ . . Last night. The Governor arrived’by train from Wellington last night, and put up at the Masonic Hotel. He brought five horses with him. He intended to visit Waikaremosns, but tinie would not allow of his going overland, and His Excellency is averse to going bv steamer to Wairoa, so the visit wss abandoned, and he left for Taupo at 7 o olook this morning in one of Crowther and McCauley's coaches. A boating accident occurred at the Spit this morning. A surf boat, while being towed over tbe bar, got swamped, but the ocoupante were picked up by the steamer Fanny, which wae towing tbe boat. One man, however, was taken to tbe Hccpital, Insensible. Only one ot th. boat’s crew could awim. It is stated that the boat wm too heavily laden for (owing.