ADDITIONAL TELEGRAMS.
PACIFIC SERVICE ENTERED INTO. HORSE GUARDS ABOLISHED. HOME FORCES FIXED AT 100,000, AND STRONG MILITIA RESERVE. (pee geevilie's telegram company, eeutee's agents.) Nelson, March 20. The report of Hall's boats being subsidised for two years is confirmed. Mr Vogel has made a new contract with Messrs Webb and Halliday for a postal service between California and New Zealand.
The first boat, the Nevada, will leave San Francisco for Auckland on April 7. She will not proceed to Australia, but by the following month arrangements will be made for connecting Australia with the service. The new contract provides for the admission of Australia to the postal benefits on reasonable terms. LATEST EtJBOPEAN. LonraoK, Feby. 16. A special to Greville's says: The principal points of Mr Cardwell's bill on the reorganisation of the army provide reasonable opportunities of promotion on the basis of seniority. The purchase system is to be comi pleteiy abolished. The Horse Guards are to be removed, the War Office thereby abolishing dual administration.
The ppointment of Commander-in-Chief is, in future, to be limited to five vears.
The Home force is to fixed at 100,000 with a strong military reserve. AEEiV£D.~Joliba, at Lyttelton. Wellington, March 20.
The ship England, from London, J rived here yesterday with one hundred immigrants. Passsengers. Bishop Viard and four clergy. Cruickshank, Smart,; and Co., of Auckland, have received advices that the first boat of Webb's line, the Nevada, will leave San Francisco on April 7th, aud and they are to provide one thousand tons of coal. They have telegraphed to the agents here that Mr Vogel has satisfactorily concluded a contract with Mr Webb. Bishop Viard and Father O'Reilly were enthusiastically received. There was an immense assemblage on the wharf.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 791, 21 March 1871, Page 2
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288ADDITIONAL TELEGRAMS. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 791, 21 March 1871, Page 2
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