TELEGRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1534, 7 May 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[?RK PRKHI- i<SCdIiIIOH,] Austrian Warship. Auckland, To-day. Arrived—Austrian Corvette Sida, Capt. Farjenz, from Sydney. She left Sydney od April 25. She remains here a week, and (ben goes to Fiji. Paribaka. 15 xw Plymouth, To-day. The Taramhi Herald's Urenni correspondent writes :—All the natives here, together with their visitors from the Islands, have left for Paribaka. They taka, also, all the preserved eels and birds that came from the Chatham Islands and L 133 in money, as an offering to Te Whiti. Fire. P>tea, To-day-The buildings, plant, and machinery of the West Coast Meat Freezing Company, were totally destroyed by fire at 2 o’clock this morning. The cause is a perfect mystery, as the fire originated in a portion of the building in which no fire whatever had been used for some Weeks. Everything but the fellmongery building was totally destroyed. Insurances so far as yet ascertained are, building and machinery, L 1,000; stock, L 50 0; refrigerator, L7OO. The original cost of the building and machinery was L 4.600. Floated. Gisborne, To day. The schooner Comet, which went ashore !h the river, has been got off. The Lumper’s Strike. Wellington, To-day.

It is understood that the Commissioner I of Customs has drafted a report to be I by him ou the action of the aut ho- I pities regarding the mail steamer Zea- I l Undia at Auckland, especially as to a ' statement which alleges that the captain threatened to tarn a jet of steam on to a I steamer cruising about, and as to a pas-1 conger being forcibly detained. It is I understood that the Commissioner holds I that SB long as the Lumpers Union do not j transgress the law, it is not right that the I aid of the law should be invoked against I K them. I Colonial Exhibition. I ? The Government propose, should Par- I „ liament approve of the colony being re- I presented at the Colonial Exhibition in I London, to appoint Dr Haast to have I “ charge of the exhibits, but the AgentGeneral will be Chief Commissi ner. 1 - Bryce v. Bnsden. 1 The Hons. Buckley and Tole, who are I Commissioners to take evidence in the I t Bryce-Rusden case, will leave for Wanga- I . nut on Saturday, and will commence to I take evidence on the 11th instant. Wit- I nesses from Rangitikei, Wanganui and I Paribaka will be examined, and subse- I - quently the bodies of persona alleged to I have been ruthlessly murdered will be I ' exhumed. 1 Federation. Ministers have drawn up a memoran- I dorn on the proposed Imperial Act, for I constituting an Australasian Federal 1 Council. The memorandum, which sng- 1 gests the re-consideration of the question, 1 u being olroulsted throughout this colony J and Australia. I Shipping- 1 Arrived— Lyttelton, ship. Captain Barman, from London ; 90 days. Eradden Death. Osmarw, To-day. BL T. Lees, an old and respect edresidetatin this district, was found dead in his room, last night. The deceased, who was about, apparently in bis usual state of hmdSij-hwt -evening, leaves a large family to| young children, r ’ fire t ' . InykROABoiLL, To-day. iAt four o’clock this morning a fiveroomed onttfge, owned and occupied by M« Rooney * etas', destroyed by fire. The bouse was insured for L 260, and the furniture for L2OO, both in the Rational Office.

Irish Volunteers. An Irish Volunteer Corps has been formed here, with a present membership of 64. It has been decided to ask the Government to accept its services. Board of Education. Mr J. Neali, headmaster of the Government School, has received the appointment of Secretary to the Education Board, for which seventy applications were sent in.