TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 107, 10 April 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

' . (UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, This Day. The- Government hiivft received a reply from Col. Hewitt definiteyl accepting the position of commander of New Zealand volunteers. It ia uiidt-ratood lie will leave for New Zealand almost immediately. It has been decided to connect the defence work with the town by telephone. ; . ; , The Governor has received a letter stating that the lamb sent Home by the Gear Company to the Dnko of N.Cambridge, arrived m capital condition, and was served up at two parlies. The flavor of the lamb proved excellent. M. De Hai yen has had a offer of 10,000 acre 3at Eltham on the Opuuake road subject to certain condition a9 to settlement and improvement, for the purpose of a Belgian settlement. The land is bush land of fine qnality. • Wanganui, This Day. The Braithwaite local sculler refuses lo accept the challenge from Hearn of fcring him half a minute m 3 miles. He says the original oftVr made was to row 3 miles giving hiiK half a mile or two minutes' start. . . Feilding, This Day. If excursion trains oan be obtained from railway authorities to run to Marton on 15th instant, the mayois of Pahnerstou and Feilding will proclaim a pub- ! lie holiday on that day, m order that the citizens may assist at the celebration of turning of the first sod of the Central Railway at Marton by the Governor.