NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2000, 2 May 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WKLUXUTOV, Thuisilay. Tiik election of hn James Preudergast, BA.. and Mi ( harles Henry Herbert Cook, M.\ , to l,e Fellows of the New Zealand Umvusit} has been appiovedby ilia Escell ncj , Fi itlay. Tlic Colonial Tieasurcr has received a cable from the Agent-General announcing that the amount of the loans converted to date u;i* iS, 042,1 00 The Government propose, with the cooperation of the tnediudl profession, to oigauise an efieethe ambulance corps at each chief centre of population, and it is hoped that the ladies will co-operate and form a Red Cioss Society. Submarine mines for defence purpose will arrive in the colony in a day or two. These are intended to be laid at the principal poits and also at the coal haibours. Captain Medley, of the Royal Naval Reserve, has been tempoiauly engaged to tissibt Lieutenant Douglas in matters connected with inaune detente. liis Excellency the Governor has cabled to the Secretary for War, requesting that a supply of one million caitndgts for small .u iiis be sent without delay. E Kjiiiru-s are being made tin oughout New Zetland as to facilities for manufactuiing cat Midges in the colony. Tht militaiy school of instn>ction will p.obalil^ lw op« ned at Mount Cook Baridck^ pi ihe ni'ldie of ne\t \\eel\. DUNEDIN, Pi May. The waiuhousuniLn a.c forming an .utilltiy coips. Already 40 names are em oiled. CHRIhTCHURCH, Thuisday, It is riidioured that the idea ot forrring a company to established a fruit-grow mi; it'ttteinent .it Hokiauga has been abandoned, and that tlu- piomoters intend canying on the settlement themselves. Mi Fedeili and party, with hissuiveyors, •stai ted foi Hoki.uiga to day. At a meeting held at Mevivale, a iiilnitb of Chmtchuich, tonight, it was decided to ioun a bi .inch of St. John's Ambulance Association The meeting v\as convened by the llev. T. Flavell, incumbent of Menvale Several medical men where piesi'iit. and over GO persons biilkciibctl as members of the blanch. Tht object of the assomtion is to render assi-tini-o to suflneis fiom accident, or vvoiindo, in time of peace oi wa>. Fi iday. The number of men lcqnircd for the mounted coips having been obtained, Major Seaton has applied for the necesdaiy aims and accnitieincnts. On*; bundled pcisons have signed the i oil for an Irish corps, and the application was sent to Wellington last night. BLENHEIM, Friday. The Defence Minister has declined to accept the services of the proposed Wair.iu cavalry, on the gi omuls that the stock of arms in store L limited, and not equal to arming those corps 'vbich urgently require them.