TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 112, 15 April 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

. *. (UNITKD PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, April H. Nothing further hns been heard of tin) iTiiiu-of-war reported as having been seen m Cook Straits yesterday afternoon, and it is thought that, the information received by the Government was incorrect. Major Ciintlcy, R.E., Lieut. Douglas, R.N., and Mr Smytlic, torpedo instructor, leave for Mauukai! m tho Hiuemoa lo night m connection with (.lie defences ot* Auckland. The Hinemoa will also, if possible, take up a torpedo boat, intended for the defence of Auckland harbour, the intention being to send it across by rail from Onchuuga to the waters of Waiteinata, m preference to taking it up by the long East-Coast sea route. The slander case, Goldsmith versus Anderson, still occupies the Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court to-day Mr Justice Richmond expressed an opinion that the owning of racehorses was not a recognised means of livelihood. Auckland, April 14. The Triumph, for Sydney, goes on to Newcastle aud back to Chri3tchnrch and Wellington. Before leaving, Miller, a late employe of the Auckland Tobacco Company was arrested on board on t*nspicion of burglariously entering the factory and stealing £50 woitli of cigars. - The Minister of Public Works today told a deputation that the Government were unable to obtain the requisite amount of labour for defence works, and suggested that the Harbour Board should lend the men employed at Calliope Dock. Mr J. M. Dargaville,M.H.U., proposes raising a defence contingent of 400 from the gum diggers and bushmen of Northern VVairoa. The Premier left for Waikato to-day. The first-class militia are being enrolled.