INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1853, 29 May 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

■ + (PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, May 28 A number of non-commiaaioned offioe. a of tbe torpedo corps, who have been m Wellington for training purposes, left for Auckland to-day. The torpedo corps ia at present engaged here m laying down submarine mines In the harbor. The cable steamer, Sherrard Osborne, ' haa again returned to the harbor, havlog picked np two fraotured portions of the cable. The portion recovered measured eighteen miles. It has beon ascertained tbat although the portion of the cable recovered la m a few instanoea somewhat corroded, yet, aa a whole, the wire ia In good condition, and will, lt lo believed, latt for some years to come. The overhauling operations will be oompleted about three day's hence, and tbla having been accomplished, it will be taken out and spliced to the buoyed end nearest Lyell'a bay, and the remaining portion of the severed cable will then be grappled for. A man named Green, 68 years of age, Is reported missing from the Village Settlement, near Pablatua, Binoe Wednesday last, A young man named Geo. Heaningwaa obarged at the RM. Court with being absent from Her Majesty's ship Nelson, while ahe waa m this port m March, 1887After hearing evidence as to the arrest, Hia Worship committed the accused to prison until one of Her Majesty's ships I oome to New Zealand, bo that he oan bo pat aboard hei.