NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 April 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[per press association]

Returning Troopers

AVellington This Day. The Governor has received a cablegram from Capetown stating that the Tongariro left on the Dlst march, having onboard Col Robin, Major Jowsey, Captains Crawshaw, Chaytor, Bourne, Vetern Captain McEachran, Surgeon Capt Craig, Liouta. Ross, Gubb, Sommerville, Slair, Hclaall, Fitz Herbert, Wallet, Lowin. 291 men of the various New Zealand corps and 8 of the South African Irregulars.

Volunteer Encampment

Wellington, This Day

The Volunteers returned last night from the Wairarapa after four days of field operations on marching, defence and attack. Cross country work is voted much preferable to fixed camp. Found Downed. Napier, April 8.

A man named W. Tayloy, storeman in the N. Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy’s Store at the Spit, missing since Thursday last, was found drowned in the water of an iron pot under a steam launch. Ho leaves a wife and three children. Obituary. Dunedin, April 8. Rev. D. M. Pryor, assistant minister at Knox church, died yesterday morning. Nelson Harbour Works. Nelson. April 8. At a meeting of the Nelson Harbour Board it was decided to adopt Mr Leslie Reynold’s No 2 plan for improvements to Nelson Harbour. Human Remains Found. Dunedin, April 8. At Earnescleug Flat, near Alexandra, two men while sluicing, unearthed the thigh bones and pelvis of a man supposed to have been buried for .‘lO years.