GOVERNMENT PRIZE FIRING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1227, 16 December 1882, Page 2

GOVERNMENT PRIZE FIRING.

The following are the results, up to the time of going to press, of the Volunteer firing for the Government prizes, at the 200 yards range. Wind blowing from the N.W.

The London •' Gaiette” contains the translation of a Note of the Spanish Government expressing regret that it should have been thought wanting in the appreciation of the cordial and friendly spirit in which the British Government wished to discuss the subject of the commercial relations between the two countries, and it hopes that the negotiations will soon be reopened. Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour will, it is understood, shortly return to England, and be succeeded as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet by Lord John Hay, at present a Lord of the Admiralty. Admiral Seymour will, it is reported, succeed Sir A. C. Key as First Sea Lord, at the Admiralty, or Admiral Ryder as Commander-in-Chief, at Portsmouth, The “Times” prints a letter from Sur-geon-Major Maclean on the subject of the alleged breakdown of the Medical Service in Egypt. Dr. Maclean protests against the ready acceptance given in some quarters to charges of mal-administration, inefficiency, and shortcomings brought against the Medical Staff employed in the Egyptian expedition, and says the staff is fully prepared to meet the charges. The Hon. A. E. Garthorne-Hardy has delivered an address under the auspices of the Edinburgh Conservative Working Men’s Association. Sir Herbert E. Maxwell, M.P., presided. Mr Hardv, in referring to the Egyptian war, gave due credit to those engaged in it, but said he would like to know how far the success of the campaign could be attributed to the Government. He believed,. from the bottom of his heart, that at the time the war was undertaken it was necessary, but his opinion was that it was a war which we drifted into without any settled policy—aa was the case with the Crimean war—and simply because the Govern- * ment did not choose to declare themselves sufficiently early. At the close of his address Mr Hardy was awarded a vote of thanks, on the motion of Mr A. L. Balfour, I M.P.

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