TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 32, 6 July 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(per united press association. Auckland, Saturday. The "Waimate has cleared, for: London with a cargo valued at £43,180, which includes gnm worth £26,610 and wool worth i!5,934. ■■ " ! ' . ' „.. The Kotomahana takes a quantity of r exhibits for . the "Wellington Industrial Exhibition ;. also eighs saloon^ nine so-' cond cabin, and 21 steerage, passengers . booked for London per ,' the Aorangi, : which • she joins at Lyttelton. ', „. • Wellington,, Saturday. Major Jeryois, t who has been holding the position. of Deputy- Assistant i Adjute ant-General : t6"the local military- forces .in South Australia, sh'ortly arrive in •New Zealand, having been appointed ; to the staff of , the His Excellency l the Go- ,; .vernor. He will also be! attached to the Defence Department, Jiere, but the latter position will be a purely honorary ; one. ■■■-..] The steel screw steamer,, tpr 1 which; 'tenders have' been 'called by the defence Minister, is to be used- in this ' port inconnection with the harbour detence. It is understood; that -Major-General Sir Peter Scratchley has expressed himself much surprised and ple_ased^fc what has been accomplished" ' Here towards putting the chief ports of the colony ihtdJ , a state of effective defence. ',' " ; A detachment of 20 men of the Armed Constabulary ..left by the Penguis lor Dunedin yesterday. They are to be employed, on the defence works there.; All labour required for the defence works is now being supplied by the; Armed Constabulary force. ; The Hotclikiss rapid firing machine gun, which has been lent to this ; colony by the inventor, arrived by the Aorangi and was landed to~day. It is tq . r W mpunted at Kaiwarf a battery, and- will be tried when in position. This gun 'is supposed to be able to fire 20 rounds a minute, the projectile weighing sixilb's^ and the range being five thousand yards. .