NEW ZEALAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 124, 27 May 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

Invkroaroili,, May 26, The railway brakesman. John Bobb, wh< was killed to-day at Lumaden during shunting operations, was on a break lever truck and is supposed to have slipped, and staggering baok, his foot eaughb in bhe frog of the points, so that he was thrown lorigitudinallj on the rails, and a wagon passed over him oausing intent death. Deoeased was a son of MicThomea Bobb, who, with most of hii sons, is also in the railway servioe. He wai 20 years of age, and a favourite with hii fellows, aud was umong tbe temperano< workers. Wellington, May 26. The following are bhe census reburns ap> proximately for bhe Provinoial distriots :— Auokland, 132,512, against 130,379 in 1886 Taranaki, 21,816, against 17,999 ; Hawke'i 8ay, '28,301, against 24J568 ; Wellington 96,289, ngainsb 77,636 ; Marlborough, 12,836 against 11,113 ; Nelson, 34,130, againsl 30,203; Westland, 16,282, againsb 25,931 Canterbury 128,092, againsb 121,400 : Otago 152,818, againsb 149,154. This does noi inoluda bhe Islands and lighthouses pppula. bion, eto. Ib will bo seen bhab nearly hall tho total inorease of the population of tht colony is olaimed by Wellington and Taranaki. This bears oub bhe Registrar General's prediction bhab if there was any abnormal inorease in any particular distriot it would be found to be on the West Coast of this Island. . . May 27. The stoa'mer Talune, Captain Ohatfteld, the first of . the Tasmanian Company's boats under the Union Company's flag, arrived from Sydnoy this morning. Captain Vial, of Dunedin, a .coastal pilot, died in the Hospital here to->day {rom the effeots of a broken leg, ?BILDING, May 27. Mr J. B. Henry has been appointed handioapper for the Canterbury Jockey Club. Oibborne, May 27. Sbabemenbs have been published throughoub the colony regarding bhe proseoubion by John Bourke, late Towri 'Olerk, of John Baldwin for criminal libel in 1888, whilst ab tho Bame time Bourke was defrauding the Harbour Board, The audit investigations Bhow that uutil.fi.ve months after the libel for whioh Baldwin wqs sent to gaol,, and three months after his sentence, Bourke had ; nob embezzled a halfpenny of publio mpney. Singular to aay, the first amount he apppropriabed was paid in by the proseoubing oounsel in the libel oase. •