MILITARY MOVEMENTS.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 47, 25 November 1867, Page 294

MILITARY MOVEMENTS.

The distribution of the 18th Royal Irish will he as follows, according to arrangements made at the head-quarters of the battalion previous to leaving Wanganui:— Head-quarters and 6 companies to Auckland, 2> companies to Napier, and 2 to Taranaki. The following officers have already arrived in Auckland with their companies:— Major R. P. Bishopp in command. Captains: Dawson, Briggs, Toppin, and Young. Lieutenants : Minnitt (musketry instructor), C. Dawson, Butts, Haines, and Cornish. ' Easigns: Jones, Pearson, Powell, and Stackley. Surgeon Young, and Staff-Asstisant-Surgeon Chandler. Captains Nobletf s and Wray’s companies are those for Napier, and Captain Young’s and Lieutenant Thacker’s companies, for Taranaki. It is rumoured that Captain Young will not leave Auckland to join , Ms company at Taranaki, and that another captain will be ordered to that post. The head-quarters, with the band and Captain Daubeney’s company, are now hourly expected from Wanganui. Lieutenant-Colonel Elliott is soon expected in Auckland to take over command rom Major-Rocke. The latter officer will then proceed to Napier, in command, and Major Bishopp to Taranaki.

The inhabitants of Wanganui are under the impression that two companies will return to that station, for which purpose they applied to the authorities. It is believed that' the application will he refused. The following general order in reference to the Snider rifle was received by last: mail, and published in district orders yesterday:— : “ General. Order, No. .429. “ Head-quarters,' Melbourne, .-■“October 18,1867. : “In accordance with War Office instructions, dated May 24, 1867, the converted Snider rifle will be issued to the troops serving in this command, in : exchan'ge 'for the muzzle-loading arms, wMch will be returned into the military stores at the respective stations, and forwarded to England The.officers commanding ,the. 2nd battalion "of the 14th Regiment, the4nd.battaHqn.of the 18th Regiment,,and the fcOffi. Regiment, yffil be pleased to forward to the Depuly-AssistantAdjhtMit-Generhl, without delay; requisitions 1 ih ; duplicate for the armh in question ;'' also for 'the'delivery into Hie military stores;-for 5 -those ’U6w: 1 in' possessioh. Sword-bayonets will be issued with the snort rifles, but the present pattem.bayonet. will suit the’converted- long rifles, and will therefore not be exchanged.,. The military,,store.;officer • will, on receipt .of the xfteCfie phased to apply,, for a. arms" 1 , being ; carefully; * evarmned. With ' reference' to ’the ( abbvej-.the l Major-General Cqzmh^dmgriieed J 'reimiaa Officers con£ mandmg' regiiiients that; if-firing <has. commenced with; the jarms-nowiin: possession,' -.the. converted Snider rifle will not he .isstied until ,the completion oftiie amiuM. qfripstrfibtiqiuV'.ir;; / v ‘ ,: <.Only,.two: have completed^fiie^^gpmenf^miniml'cjiurae 1 -of musketry whole of the battalion will* cbmplefce yfti the Eafield rifle. •

, A Hentto Smokers. —The West Coast Times relates a circumstance which ought to act as a warning to smokers, viz., that ; a : cancer was cut out of the lower lip of an old man, which had been caused by smoking’ e short clay pipe.

Death op Mr Richard Barry. —-News reached town a few days ago of the death of Mr Bichard Barry ; of the Ship Hotel, under very-melancholy cir cntUßtances. ; It appears that he was a passenger oh board the steamer Wallaby, bound from Wellington to the Buller, and had been suffering from delirium tremens , though not so bad as to create any apprehensions of his life being in danger/ The vessel was on the.right of Oct. 24, lying in Port Hardy. Mr Barry had been placed under the care of the steward, and both were lying in adjoining bunks. The steward having fallen asleep, Mr Barry got up at a quarter to ten o’clock, and throwing his clothes on his arm, went on deck, aud jumped overboard. ’ The man on watch, witnessed the occurrence, and gave an alarm. Captain Danielle at once lowered a boat, aud searched for half an hour, but the night was so dark and' stormy as to render any attempt to save the unfortunate man almost hopeless, and. at last advices the body had not been recovered. The steward of the Wallaby states that about- an hour before the occurrence, Mr Barry Lad cash notes, and deeds relating to property about him. Mr Barry, who was between fifty and sixty years of age, was one of the first settlers in this province, having arrived in the ship Aurora; in 1840. He leaves a wife and family.—W ellington Independent, November 7.

. Murder at Taranaki. —The correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, under date 9th November, says:—On Thursday last, November 7th, a Maori of the Puketapu tribe, residing at the Kaipukapuka Pa, was observed in a village of Manutahi with a pair of trousers, supposed to be stolen from a settler named Marshall. The Maori went to the public house to buy bread, and was there detained till the supposed owner of the trousers could be sent for. In about half an hour Marshall came and identified the trousers as his property. He at once started for town to get a policeman, in the meantime giving the Maori in charge of a man named John Daniel Roby. As the Maori was rather violent, Roby procured a loaded rifle, and' had himself and prisoner locked up in a back room of the public house -till the police came from. town. After some short time had elapsed the people of the house were alarmed at the report of a gun, and a cry in the room; they rushed in and found Roby mortally wounded, and the Maori escaped through the window, he having leaped through it, carrying away both glass and sash bars; some persons tried to overtake him- but he escaped. A pillow was placed under the head, of the dying man, when he said “I am done for, the Maori has shot me.” He never spoke again, but he died in. about ten minutes. The next morning Inia, the murderer, went to Kaipukapuka. when the natives there, much to their credit, made ;J him a prisones and handed him over to the authorities. He was very violent-, tried to kill himself with an American me, and wounded a native with a billhook" He is quite a youth of about 17 or 18 years of age. A post mortem examination of the body of the victim, showed that- the ball had passed through the right arm, fracturing the humeurs, entering the chest a little behind the armpit beneath the fifth rib, fracturing the sixth, dividing the pulmonary artery, and grazing the spine, making its exit between the seventh and eighth ribs, fracturing the eighth on the left side. The: prisoner, who does not deny his guilt, has been committed for trial. The deceased was a young man, a military settler. A short time ago he sent home for his sweetheart, she came out they were married, and the result of their union is a little girl whom they fondly named Manutahi, after her native village.

The 'Murder near Switzer’s.—The Otago Daily Times of the 4th: inst., gives the following details : “ For several months there has been no report of the committal in Otago of other than , what may be called-ordinary crime; but now there is much reason for fearing th&t two murders have been committed up-country. A miner hpmed "Vincent Fiddes recently went with others, from Switzer’s diggings to Scrubby Elat, in the same neighborhood. He had money, chiefly in sovereigns. His body has been found, with marks about his neck which show that he was strangled'; and two men (a father and son) who had been working with Fiddes, having left the neighborhood about the time the body was discovered, they were chased by the police, and were caught, forty, miles off, at Waipori. ;The ■ coroner’s-- jury found, without hesitation, that Eiddes had been murdered and' the. two 'prisoners have been remanded- for a -week by : the Resident Magistrate at Lawrence (Tuapeka;) Infthe secdhd case; a Chinaman, Ah Hang, is the victim ; and a countryman of his, Le ; Ah Cheong, "is being: sought' as "the suapecto& f imirderer. The body of Ah Hang was “found partially ; buried in the K&warau Gorge;. the head'and the meek were frightfully-injured; .and the legs were tied,.as:thonglrthe.;corpsehadbeen dragged some vdiststnee. M.The twp_meu: naniedl,had been working,tpgether j; "ahd file decdwe4?is.%n49^.-^'h^]lmd'4)pm^de^<.. KaWarau neighborhood ; during - thej; early part:of!September;iandthe:corpse.ofAh Hangwas so;far,jdecomposed as to satisjjfa medical man that death oausea was the;/dead ; man.’s;ijEpqney, bas dmppeiued. - A reward' of offered ..for apprehension of Le Ah CHeong/’