NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 600, 28 April 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. The natives working at Rotorua have made a discovery ot petroleum, which burns brightly. On Saturday 165 boot operatives were paid strike pay, The other 35 have gone south. The Auckland Opera Olub have decided to play Princes* Ida, and it will be put in rehearsal immediately. Mrs Gordon (ot Whangarei), who is the mother of five children, committed suicide by taking rough on rats. Alfred Eyres was aocidentaUy shot yesterday at Qoromaqdcl, and is not expected to recover. Captain Hinkley, of the ship Leading Wind, has been arrested when leaving for America, and detained to answer the suit of Christchurch shippers who are not satisfied with the adjustment made. At the Onehunga races yesterday 0, McMaster, owner of Ironbark, with the horse qnd jockey Smith, were suspended for 12 fipnths for suspicious running. Captain Norris, of Auckland, was on his way out to ths colony in the new barquentine he had bought, when he had to abandon her off Scilly Islands, in a gale. She was insured for £2OOO. Joseph Greenwood, who unsuccessfully contested the Eden election with the Hon. E. Mitohelson, went out into a paddock to-day with a gun, He Was accompanied by a little boy. He placed the gun to his bead and deliberately shot himself. He was Chairman of the Bead Board aad Lo-ial Licencing Committee.