NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 602, 2 May 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND. Last night. A second battery is projected on the Pnhipubi silver field. Mr Richard Wooller’s residence at Howick has been burnt down. A strong committee his been appointed to revive the annual agricultural shows here.

A native named Pateti, at Wharekau, 1 hanged himself because of unrequited love. A Mrs Brown has filed her schedule because her daughter, Mrs Thompson, lost £l2O that belonged to the former. Tho creditors have resolved to proceed against against Mrs Thompson for the money on the ground of gross carelessness. The Northern Chief, from. Newcastle, passed the dead body of a man floating in ' the water on the coast, but could not stop to pick it up. Mr W. A. Thompson, manager of the Equitable Insurance Company, died from internal hemorrhage caused by an accident while riding in the North. The Tarawera, for South, to-day, took as passengers for Gisborne—Miss Langford, Mesdatnes Cave and Ibister, and Mr Wallace. The Governor and party arrived at Dargaville on Wednesday, having travelled overland from the Bay of Islands. The township was’,beautifully decorated in honor of the occasion. SOUTHERN NEWS. Sir Robert Smut asserts that the English Grand Lodge of Masons is not s Court of tbs first instance, and that the French Orient Lodge about which the trouble arose was founded because it was considered that Maaonary should) be open to all shades of belief. The customs revenue for April was £132,776, against £126,282 for April lost year, and £122,713 for March. Auckland contributed £33.206, Wellington £22,480, Christchurch £20,012, and Dunedin £33,379. By a fire at Fairiie Creek, Umaru, CsskejA' saddlery and McDonald's bunt shop, both owned by Caskeys and Bella; and a stable owned by R. J, Taylor, Timaru, were diatroyed. Thomas Ewart, 20 years of age, was found dead at Traguair, He is supposed to have been kicked by a horse. A barn, owned by Robert Campbell, Mararoa station, was burnt down, together with the contents. The loss is £450, and insurance in Union £2OO. E. B. Baker, Sheriff of the Supreme Court, Wellington, is to be retrenched and hie duties fulfilled by Registrar Been. It has been definitely decided that the Attorney-General shall initiate proceedings to test the validity of Justice Edwards' appointment, and the Hon. P, Buckley ia now in consultation with Sir Robert Stoat as to the form the proceedings shall take, By the upsetting of a keroiene tin the sigroomed house of Mr Donald McKenzie naught fire. Miss McKenzie's clothes caught fire, but aha rushed into an adjoining rirar and escaped injury. Proposals tor an alteration in the Education syllabus have been submitted by the Edu. national Institute, and are now under the consideration ot the Minister of Education. Some change will probably be made, but iu what direction is not Intimated. A woman named Sarah Dermott, wife ot a cabdriver at Richmond, Canterbury, died suddenly yesterday. She had been suffering from a paralytic stroke for two years, but enjoyed tolerable health nntil her death. The complete figures for the financial year are now available. Every item ot revenue shows an increase on the estimate, except that of depasturing licenses, etc., which are £5641 to the bad. A meeting ot shareholders of the Equitable Insurance Association wait held yesterday at

Dunedin to ccr.fitm a resolution to wind up the Company. The Chairman said that at the last meeting a committee of investigation had been appointed, and the directors had agreed to throw open everything to them, but from that day to this nothing further has been heard of the committee.

It is rumored that an attempt is to be made to upset the election of the Sydenham (Christchurch) Licensing Committee, on certain grounds not yet revealed. A cabman named James McGrath was stabbed, in "a brothel at Christchurch last night, by a man named Thomas Gorman, with a pocket knife, inflicting a small wound below the nave). McGrath is progressing favorably. Gorman has b=en arrested. The report of the naval officers who conducted the erqoiry at Wellington into the circumstances of the Shelly Biy guncotton explosion is now in the bands of the Ministers. The Premier states that it substantially exonerates Captain Falconer, and throws the blame upon the system in vogue in the colony.