TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2208, 1 February 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

[United Phess Association.]

Greymoutii, February 1,

Henry Batty, of Coal Creek, opposite Greymouth, li:i3 been missing since Saturday week. The evidence leads to a belief that on going'home that night after the circus, and with some groceries, he fell from Cobden bridge, then in an unfinished state, into the river, His hat has been found, but there is no other clue to his fate. Ho was comfortably off, and his life was insured for £4OO.

William King, fisherman, went out fishing on Friday night, and has not been seen since. He is supposed to have drifted over the bar. Both sculls have since been found. A steamer despatch went out on Saturday to look for him but it has not yet returned. Pout Chalmers, February 1,

The ship Rakaia which arrived yesterday from the Bluff grounded off Ravensbourne during the afternoon while being towed to Dunedin. Four steamers unsuccessfully attempted to get her off, To-day, however, two tugs pulled her off. Auckland, this day.

At a meeting of the Trade and Labor congress, a letter was read from Sir Julius Vegeltothe Congress a letter was read from Sir Julius Vogel to the Congress in response to an invitation to address them The letter entered at length into the relations of capital and labor. A vote of thanks was accorded to Sir Julius Vogol, and it was resolved to ask him to use his influence;to pass through Parliament the measures which the Congress had voted in its session. CmusTCHORCH, this day. At a banquet, replying to the toast of his health, Admiral Tryon said as an attack on this colony must come from over the sea, and be directed by sailors, it might bo of interest to hear from a sailor what best protected the port, Ho had gone round the principal ports and he must say ho thought thai the principal adopted in their defence had been very wise, Guns had been placed so as to afford a minimum target with a maximum of destructive power. * Mine fields had also been provided at the entrance to koep energetic sailors out. Cruisors now-a-days had on board steamboats which, though small, weie most formidably armed with torpedoes and with guns. They were most dangerous to these parts, but colonists were equal to them, and with machine guns on board their local steam vessels, they would be prepared to meet the boats of any ship that ever floated. Ho felt sure that was the position, that New Zealand must place herself in a position of defence ; unless they believed that the " Lion was lying down with lamb," or that the commandment not' to covet choir neighbors goods was universally obeyed. It was not enough lie thought to be content with merely defending our own ports. It should be rendered, if not impossible, at least difficult, for a foe to come to our coasts and capture our shipping and then leave us as it were to stew in our own juico. He was in favor of what might be called a national fleet, As to defence, it seemed to hiin to be thoroughly accepted as a grave necessity in New Zealand. But there was yet another thing to which he desired to refer and that was establishment in the near future of a gathering together in one great bond of all English-speaking peoplo, wherever they might be located. They might make alliances, all good people did make good friendship, but it seemed to him that the great project waß what he had alluded to.