SOUTHERN NEWS.

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

SOUTHERN NEWS.

Last night. The steamer Maori is at Waitara loading frozen meat for London. At lhe New Plymouth oil works they have struck petroleum at 900 feet. The quality is excellent. The half yearly meeting of the Court of Appeal began this morning. Moir’s flourmill at Southbrook, Canterbury, has been burned down. It is proposed to bold a conference of County Chairmen at Wellington re County funds, Mr Seddon leaves Wellington for Auckland to-morrow. A boy named Malcolm Findlay was run oven by a cab at Dunedin, and died a few minutes after being received into the Hospital. While service was proceeding in the Knox Church, Dunedin, Wm. Wilson, shoemaker, was taken ill, aud died as he was being assisted out. Heart disease is supposed to be the cause. The Christchurch Trades Unionists issued lists of candidates whom they will recommend all Unionists to support in the city and suburban school committee elections. A great contest will take place at Oemaru to morrow in the Licensing election. Tho Prohibitionists are confident of winning. The annual report of the Wellington Opera House Company shows a loss of £136, which is attributed to the Directors having been compelled to lease the Theatre Royal in order to obtain a fair rental for their own properly. On Saturday morning about 40 feat of the railway line between Waingaroa and Ngakawau was washed away. The passengers by the afternoon train from Westport to Ngakawau were conveyed from the break to their destination in trollies. Mr W. L. Rees arrived in Wellington last night. The other Commissioners are iu Palmerston. Mr Bees ia coming to Wellington to consult the Native Minister upon some matters that have arisen in connection with the enquiry. Tae Dunedin Licensing Committee has appointed Air Gorley chairman. Mr Stanford intimated that unless the Bench took steps immediately to close ten bouses ho will resign. Tho Bench will hold a private ' meeting to consider the situation. Although Mr Coatee, counsel for Mrs Heighton, will withdraw the charge of manslaughter against Captain Falconer, Mr Jeliiooe, who bad been acting for her, insists that the case shall come on, and there promises to be some confusion when the . charge is called on to-morrow. Duncan MacDougall, sheepfarmer, was drowned in the lower Wairarapa Lake while duck shooting, by the upsetting of his punt. The Engineer at Ohrißtohuroh has been instructed to arrange for small contracts on Bealy at ordinary contract rates, for unemployed, Only married men are ; eligible, recommended by an M.H.8., clergyman, or benevolent institution ; the cost ot transit to be repaid out of the earniogs. r The complete railway returns for ths 1 financial year show a net profit of £421,500, or a shade over three per oent on the cost of 1 constructing opened lines. The profit shows an increase of £19,500 over the estimate. The ehipment of two oases of early flake ; potatoes sent to England in the cool chamber 0! the steamer Matatua, realised I|l per lb, , or at ths rate of £l4 per ton. The potatoes, • which were carefully packed in paper and soft meadow hay, arrived in good condition. It is reported in New Plymouth that on Tuesday last a European who had been living with a native woman in Tuhua county stabbed her with a knife during the night, killing her, and buried the body under the floor of the wharo. The ’ mother uni friends missed the woman, and s searched for her, and finding the floor cf the where disturbed, opened the earth and 1 discovered the body.