Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3184, 20 April 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

ij| :■' : ,-t jAnpEiiiND, :ApKl:18; -'■; J j- The : Eaater encalnpment:of Vojuni.! teers of this district will open to-' ] morrow, and tbe: troops' of: the , Auckland Garrison, numbering- about ; 400 men, under command of Oolrinef; Shepherd and the'various i officers, left town fo-nigljtbj' special; train' for '•. the scenel'of the' camp, ( about two- miles-: outside-Hamilton.- - One hundred and twenty Volunteers ] went this morning to arrange matters < for the general body. - A detachment : of Te Awamutu Cavalry and another of Raglan Volunteers will join tho : encampment to-morrow. Cubistohuroh, April 19. Four hundred and sixty Volun- . teers started last night by special train for Moeraki' .North for their; three days' 1 encampment, Colonel Lean, Major Blater, and staff officers preceded them during the day, and a special train, containing tho Southern contingent, reached the camp at 8 this morning. The weather- to-day is squally, but the usual manoeuvres were carried out successfully, '; ','■'...' Nelson,"April 19, There has been a largo influx Of visitors to-day, the steamers Kennedy from Weslport, and Manawatu, Oreti, and Penguin, from Wanganui, Wellington, and Marlborough, bringing a,large crowd of Volunteers and excursionists, : There are now nearly 1000 Volunteers in camp, and bands, The weather is glorious, and' promises well. Oamabu, April 10. The Volunteer . encampment promises to be a very successful affair. Over 100 men of the country corps are oamped in the Agricultural Show Ground, and to-morrow these will bo joined by the town companies for review and parade, On Monday the men will go about eight milea in the country to engage in a sham fight. To-morrow night military sports will be held. The Late Beer Duty Case. Wellington, Saturday. The Cabinet have .decided to release tho plant of the Junotion Brewery Company, which was recently forfeited for breach of, the: Beer Duty Act, and also to reduce the fines and costs inflioted on the Company and its Secretary for negleoting to enter certain material used in the prodnc- , tion of beer, to £878,18s Gd,. 1 Deputations, : -Dunedih, April 18. | Mr (i. F. Richardson was waited upon to-day by a number of deputa--1 tious, but only three of them were ' public, Regarding the unemployed;- • the Minister said he had made pro- ! vision to take on thirty men at 1 Catlins, and another thirty, on the | Otago Central. •These men must'be able-bodied and married. The Govl eminent absolutely dechno to find s work in the yicinitypf the town. The ) other deputations were of a local 1 nature.