TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3409, 14 January 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Another Suicide' ' Greymouth, Januaay 13. A telegram from ■Ahaura', state 3 that George Banner, stove'Reeper, Black water, committed suicide by shooting himself this morning, JuMee Celebration, '

. VVoodville. Tuesday, At a public meeting last night it was .resolved tc celebrate tho jubilee of the colony on the 29th by a general gathering of settlers,

The Weather.

Woodviule, Tuesday.

The weather lias been rnosl unseasonable and cold, with continuous rain or showers. The baj am grass seed crops have been largelj destroyed, ' ';, '

Sudden Death

New Plymouth, Tuesday,

Mrs Fry, mother of tho wife of Caj Cornwall, of Bell block, an elder lady, suddenly .expired' last higl when tnlking to her daughter,

, Bank of New Zealand. Auckland, January 18, . A meeting of shareholders in the Bank of New Zealand has been called for Friday, the 2ith of February next, to consider viiriqus alterations of the deed of settlement which become decessnry to give affect to the resolution passed at the meeting held on Thursday last authorising the removal of-theoliief office to London. Among the' resolutions to be submitted to the meetings are two providing for the appointment of a local board and appointment of an attorney to act for the bank in the colonies. Which is Anniversary Day? Auckmnd, Tuesday. Apropos of the controversy relative to the proper anniversary Day of the colony, Mr Williamson,, tho Crown Proseoutor, contributes some valuable information. He says if the

observance of the 29th in Auckland is traced to its source, it will be found that date was fixed and imposed upon us by the Government of the colony, and is not therefore in any sense claimed by Auckland people or the Auckland district as the anniversary of this particular ■■ portion of the colony, In tho N;Z. Gazette of 1842, p, 16, the following notice appears: " Saturday, 20th instant, beiug fhe seoond anniversary of. the establishment of the colony, His Excolloncy the Governor has been pleased to direct that day to be held as a general holiday."