TELEGRAPHIC.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1040, 28 May 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

[per press association.] AUCKLAND, May 26. The Governor and vice-regal party left in the Hinemoa this afternoon for the South. The whole Yolnnteer force formed a guard of honour, and the battery fired seventeen guns. There were 3000 people on the railway wharf, who heartily ehcered the Governor as the steamer moved off, the band playing Anld Lang Syne. The Matanra sailed for London with a cargo valued at £32,000, of which £13,000 was represented by frozen meat, game, and fish. At a meeting of the Auckland Society of Arts it was resolved that letters be sent to Mr Blair, of the Canterbury School of Art, to Mr Fraser Jones, of Wellington, and to Mr Pownall, of Wanganui, thanking those gentlemen for their exertions in forwarding such excellent drawings from their Art classes to the late exhibition of the Society. DUNEDIN, May 27.’ The Railway Department have given a gratuity equal to six months’pay to the widow of the engine-driver Meek, who was killed lately at the railway station.

Mr M. W. Green, M.H.R., has been appointed to succeed Mr Gordon Forking as pastor of the Union Church. Mr Dodson, licensee of the Port Chalmers Hotel, was summoned for selling beer on Sunday, but the information was dismissed, as the man supplied said, in his evidence, that the beer was given him for going a message.