TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1065, 4 May 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

r (united pbbs's associatios.) DEPARTURE OF THE EMERALD, H.M S. Emerald mailed for England at ten o'clock this morning, The shipping in the harbor saluted the vessel as she got under weight' i ARTILLERY COMPETITION. • Dukedin, this day. The B Battery in the match against Wellington made 726, or 19 behind the Wellington artillery. i ANOTHER FIRE. Invekoakgih, this day. A ten-roomed house at Greensills, owned and occupied by Mr S, Sullivan,; was burned down last night, It was insured -for £2OO in the N ovthern office. The origin of the fire is believed to have been acci'dental. A NEW NATIONAL SONG. Wellington, this day, The Govt, have received through the Agent General a copy of an English and Colonial national song called " Hands all round," by the poet Laureate (Alfred Tennyson,) set to music with a request from the Royal Colonial Institute that the wish of the poet Laureato may be carried and the Bong publicly sung in tho colony on the Queen'b Birthday. THE NATIVE, MEETING, • A LEVANTER. Amxandci, Te Ngakau and a number of other leading natives came iuto' Alexandra to-day. No ltorovo to-day. They say the delay is caused by the non-arrival of a number of southern Natives, and will begin immediately they arrive.

Auckland. ~ Hargis, wine and spirit merchant, about ten days ago left Auckland ostensibly to go on a visit to Rotorua, Is is discovered that defalcations amounting to several thousands exist in his accounts, Australian Grms being let in heavily. It is supposed that Hargis has gone to Adelaidb hoping to secure a passage in the Orient steamer Ouzco. A warrant f° r bis apprehension and a cable has-been Bout advising the police authorities.'