TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 97, 27 March 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

.:■. :; .m; ■■■()' ,-; ■ ■• , #ni ■' „ :',■. I" '.•.■'■'■ ;;V? ■' :; ': ; (ONllli^BiHiSS 'ASfSOOIAIlON;) ' ,',".' ; Wei-mngtom, March 26. : • ' ; The reductions iv tha , Auditj O^pg in.*j ; y6le the retirement from the service of a' 1 . | ' officers of •titie'Tevenue^branchr - ■••■■•■ — --J i The question of appointing an. officer i ■ of r^ank to the command of the Volunteers of the colony will be settled m a day or - ' two. The Minister ot Defence will conifer with "^he^Goyernor:' as to^the ;s6lec^ tion. '.' ;.' ? e| '/'>, S I :^. '■ 1; ... S. \- '>; ' AstaifhasTjeSS fnaddwM &# ekz- \ "tion of the Exhibition Buildings. The 'contract time is three jflOnths, and tbe' ■«bntractoi:S Jt have : . received >, notice . that ' fines will be strictly entbrced for nou«ompletipn .within that ppriod. ....: v • .• ','.". Two hundred and sbventy Volunteers :fjfom';WßlHngton . will be ; present at j the JEasteir Encampment at Kelson,.; 5 i: >: :;; This Day. A nine-roomed house, iii "Wilkinson's- -J?ea! Gai-dtns, Oriental Bayi ■bwbed and occupied^ /by ■. iW: ; WiViinspn, was totally, destroyed py fire- this morning. The house' was insured in' tne South British for' i'oOOi'. and' furniture' for i'loo infhesaine office. '" " J. Saundersiis the Buocessful ; tenderer, for! the Tea Aro reclamation. ''[ [ C^hbistchuech, This Day . l ? .:"■ A cottftaje- atr Sydenham, ; theipfoper^r of T. Bichardson, was destroy eof by fire this morning. Insurance, iflOO m the lipndon Lancashire office.