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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5069, 14 April 1885, Page 2

- T E <nrtrbl« works machinery, recontly destroyed^ fire in Auckland were insured for £800 in the New Zjalanel Co.

Ditbing the eight daya Mr R. T. Booth has been conducting his miasion in Christchurch 2433 persons have donned the blue ribbon, 1308 of whom have taken tbe pledge.

Sbtebal captains of the Dunedin Volunteer corps intend asking the Government for permission to recruit their numbers up to 100 tnembera. It is proposed also to form a company of engineers. "

At the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, the slander oase, Goldsmith (well known in connection with racing matters in that oity) versus AnHerson, was partly heard. The claim is for £500 damages. It is alleged thafc defendant had said Goldsmith offered the jockey of a horse in a private match at New Year's meeting £20 to pull him. The case will be resumed to-morrow.

A Weltington telegram published in an exchange state* that tenders were received for the Waikato-Thames Railway, Te Aroha con tract, part formation and permanent way. Accepted: John Livingston, Hamilton, £7373.

The Arabian organ, Mubaschir, publishes tho following extract, from a letter forwarded by the Mahdi to Osman Digna :—" I have twice attempted to cross the White Nile with my array, and to attack Khartoum in the rear, but was thwarted both times by the high water, which was to 3 deep to wade, and we had neither boats nor rafts. I therefore marched along the river to Omdurman, where I have fixed my headquarters. Here I can quiet'y await the arrival of an English army, should one bo sent to the Soudan. I leave to you the defence of the road leading from tbe sea to Khartoum, as you are encamped on the other side of tbe river. Thus you see that the two routes leading from the north to Khartoum are in our possession, and if eventually our enemies were to force their way a'ong them we could cut off their retreat, and not one of them would encape."