TELEGRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1545, 20 May 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

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Shipping. m , Auckland, To-day, Arrived —Wairarapa, from Sydney, From Fiji ... Arrived—Arawata, from Fiji. Passengers Mr and Mrs Eagles, child and «e--vant, Messrs Abercrombie, German, F. W. Howard, R, A. Fraser, J. F. Cartwright, A. G. Dore, H. Pickhano, Robert,on, S. W, Murray, Captains Olive and Short, and IS in the steerage.

Ammunition. Colonel Whitmore has just concluded ft . contract on behalf of the Government with Captain Whitney for the manufacture here of half a million rounds of snider ball ammunition. The price w but a alight advance on the imported article, and Captain Whitney has men in his employ acquainted with the manufacture of cartridges. It is understood that the powder is to be obtained from Dunedin. Colonel Whitmore expects to be here until after the Queen’s Birthday. The nightingale. The Arawata, which arrived from Injt this morning, brings news of the safety of the missing crew of the brigantine Nightingale. On the 9th instant the barque Renrngo, bound from Newcastle to San Francisco with a cargo of coal, put in to Levuka, having on board Captain Short and the missing men who had been picked up in an open boat at sea. According to the statement of the mate, the vessel became waterlogged on April 19, and the crew, eleven in number, took te the boat on April 20. After going about two miles five of tke crew considered the boat overloaded and returned to the ship. The boat experienced fair weather till April 26, when the sails of the Bemingo were descried, and that vessel picked up the castaways. On the following day there was a terrific gale, which would probably have swamped the boat. Chess. Christchurch, To-day. The ehess match, Christchurch vervus Dunedin, has fallen through. The latter Club being unable to play at present. Archery Club. The Secretary of the Canterbury Archery Club has received per Te Anau the returns of the scores made by the Adelaide Club in th*ir match with the Canterbury Club, showing a considerable balance in favor of the Adelaide Club, they having made 1,325 points against 837 scored by our local archers. Missing. Dunedin, To-day. Jacob Sbasters is reported as missing from Kaitangata ; he has been drinking. It is behaved he f 11 or threw himself into the river.