TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 993, 12 July 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.] Orangeism. AUCKLAND, To-day.

Three hundred Orangemen marched through the streets to-day in celebration of the 12th of July. There was no disturbance of any hind. There will be a monster meeting to-night. A Schooner in Distress.

The Energy, a three-masted schooner, from Greymouth for Noumea, with a cargo of coke, put in here leaky. The captain reports that he left Greymouth on the ,3rd, and struck heavily on the bar,

while drawing nine feet of water. He , kept on the course till the 7th, when it ' was found.-that the water was gaining and i, the vessel much strained. He resolved to make for Auckland. The Energy is .owned by Messrs Stone Bros., Sims and

.. Brown, and Captain Savory; of Auckland. , . The ifisuranoeaare—On the hull, LI,800; cargo, L 400; freight, L3oo—all in New Zealand offices. The San Francisco Mail. Wellington, To-day. The Zealandia with the English mail left San Francisco on 30th June, timetable date. The City of Sydney, with the June colonial mails arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on the 9th inst., three days earlier than time-table date. Missing. Christchurch, To-day. The captain of the Wakatu reports that when at South Bay, Kaikoura, on Mon- , day last, he, on leaving, had a dingey 'With two men in her in tow. These men 'belonged to Kaikoura, and were on their •Way there. While towing the boat, the How rope broke. Although this happened at a place where the men could easily have' landed, there seem to be some doubts as to their safety, owing to their not-having been' heard of since, and the heavy weather experienced on the coast ;during , the last few days. Telegrapos have been received by the 'captain of the Wakatu, from Kaikoura, Asking if he saw anything of the men. He replied in the affirmative. Fatal Accident. Kumara, To-day. •' George Michael Gelchardt, aged 52, a wood- : cutter, was accidentally killed yesterday by a tree falling on him, causing instant death. He leaves a wife and eight children.. The Wain Case. Dunedin, To-day. " The Wain case is expected to finish tonight. A Home Vessel. The Colleen, barque, from London, passed Cape launders this morning.

The following is an extract from a contribution to the Fortnightly Review, ly a field officer of the German army :—ln spite of the claim to rule the sea, it seems to be true that the marine artillery of England is behind the systems introduced by other Powers, and that her maritime superiority and security are thereby threatened, because her beat men-of-war are armed with inadequate artillery. The nautical apparatus depends in. its complexity and many-sidedness as much on the art of ship-building as on the present state of artillery and gun construction. The fitness for action, the power of resistance, the capacity for manoeuvre of a modern ship of war come from these combined sources. In the struggle impending, sooner or later, between Russia and England in Asia, the fleet will indeed have little part, and success requires the other arms to be well prepared. But at this moment three things govern Continental politics—the rise of the new German Empire, the decline of the Turkish, and the hegemony of England over the sea. Egypt will bring England to consciousness, in spite of her victory, that she is the least of all the land Powers of Europe. When Bngland reaohes this consciousness, then the Egyptian , question will have reached its height; the nation will militarise itself, the army will nationalise itself, and from that time England will have nothing to fear, in either Europe or Asia. Mother Swan’s worm Syrup. —lnfallible, tasteless, harmless, cathartic; for feverishness, restlessness, worms, constipation, is. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. 3