TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1490, 17 March 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[FBB FKBSB ASSOCIATION. 1 Colonial Defence. Auckland, Last Night. The following .telegram in reply to a resolution forwarded by the Chamber of Commerce was received from the Minister of Defence, Wellington, by the Presi- C dent, J. Reid, to-day The Government have adopted measures for the defence of the colony. Uho defence of the 4 port of Auckland is included in the * scheme.” d Frerarious. ti James Irwin, sailor, of the schooner b Mansion, stabbed at Te Kopuru by a l! French Canadian, Fredk. Barker Irwin, o is in a dangerous state. t. Adjourned. ' !i -An inquiry into the casualty to the v steamer Thomas Bussell was to have been n held to-day, but it was adjourned sine die, c ss the steamer is now wrecked. * A Boston Delegate. ? Mrs Levitt, Boston delegate of the ® Women’s Christian Temperance Mission, was presented with a purse of sovereigns * on the dosing of her mission here. Bemenyi. Remenyi closed a successful season tonight. He visits Napier and Christchurch. Tobacco. Wanganui, Last Night. Vollbraoht’a Tobacco Company have resolved to open a branch depot in Wanganui for the Taranaki, Wanganui, Rangltilrai and Nelson districts. Minister for Mines. > Welli gton. Last Night. The Hon Mr Larnach left for the South •to-day, on a tour round the Otago goldfields. Tenders. It is understood that twelve tenders were received to-day for the erection of the Industrial Exhibition buildings. Sly Grog Selling. Blenheim, To-day. Prosecutions for sly grog selling are pending against the occupierjof the Grove Town Hotel, the license of which was cancelled on the tenth of March. At an early hour this morning the police visited the hotel and seized the whole stock of liquors, which were brought into town. The sly grog selling cases come on at the B.M. Court to-morrow. The hotel has been kept open ever since the license was cancelled. Embezzlement. Dunedin, Last Night. At the Police Court to-day, Joseph Green, on a charge of embezzling altogether L2OO, the property of Reid and Duooao, his employers, was committed for trial, bail being allowed. Church Damaged. . The gale on {Saturday brought down three of the stone pinnacles on the spire of the Presbyterian First Church, the damage being estimated-at LSO. Kaitangata Company. The Kaitangata Railway and Coal Com pany have declared an interim dividend at the rate of ten per cent. Increased. The Jockey Club has increased the added money for the May Meeting from LBOO to LI,OOO. . Boxing Match. The boxing match, Mathews v. Pattengell to-nighr, was easily won by Mathews. It only lasted a few minutes, when Pattengell could not come to time.