EASTER ENCAMPMENT.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9862, 11 March 1896, Page 5

EASTER ENCAMPMENT.

Colonel Gordon has received word that an Easter encampment will be held thiß year. The conditions and locality are to be announced later on.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.

At the adjourned meeting of the Otago eection of the National Association yesterday a Council of twenty was eleoted. It was stated that the membership numbered 500.

H.M.S. RINGDOVE.

H.M.S. Riugdovs will probably remain in Wellington until the 31st inst. Then she will probably go to Picton in order to be present at the Championship Regatta.

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The Press Association reports that the Union Company have had advice that the Monowai left San Francisco at 10 a.m. on Saturday, two days late.

THE TARANAKI HIGHWAYMAN.

The Hon. Thomas Thompson, when at New Plymouth last week, was presented with a petition bearing a thousand signatures praying for the release from gaolol young Wallatb, the Taranaki highwayman, who has now served two years of his sentence. The deputation represented that he had really had no malicious intent, but was only engaged in a foolish freak.

COURT MARTIAL.

The Press Association telegraphs that the Court Martial held on Monday, just before the squadron left Wellington, was in regard to a marine of H.M.S. Ringdove (not Ringarooma, as reported on Monday), who was charged with having struck a petty officer of the same vessel. The trial resulted in the offender being found guilty, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. He was placed on board the flagship after sentence was passed, and on the warship's arrival in Sydney he will be sent Home to serve the remainder of his sentence.

TIMARU HARBOUR,

Mr F. W. Marchant, the recently appointed Resident Engineer, reported to the Timarn Harbour Board yesterday that the character and usefulness of the harbour are being risked by the neglect to take steps to Srevent shingle from travelling round the reakwater and form a bar iv the entrance. He indicated that next winter's storms may bring ou the trouble, and recommended an immediate start to remove the shingle from the south side, rather as a temporary palliative than a preventive. For a permanent provision he recommends the extension of the breakwater to improve the harbour and facilitate dealing with the shingle. Consideration of the report was deferred for a month.

THE GOVERNOR.

Lord Glasgow and party returned to Auokland yesterday. After giving details of tho concluding days of the trip, the Auckland Press Association agent continues :— Lord Glasgow's visit will long be held in remembrance from tho effusive warmth with which the whole of the Natives welcomed him and Mr Carroll, for the extraordinary expressions of loyalty and gratitude uttered by the Natives, and for the intense satisfaction displayed over the proposed settlement of the Urawera country. The Tuhoe endorsed the offer made by the loyal Arawa tribe to raise a contingent, and place their services at the Governor's command should they ever be required.

AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

FOURS. The letter from the Canterbury Rowing Club to the Seoretary of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association, asking the latter body to arrange, if possible, a test race for any combined crew with a view to select the best possible crew to represent New Zealand in the Australian Championship Fours, has been considered by the Council of the Association, whose decision was that the matter was one which should be dealt with by a meeting of the delegates, and the suggestion of the Canterbury Club will, therefore, be referred to the meeting at Picton off April 10th. Some members of the Council were in favour of the crew prbSosed by tbe Canterbury Club—Cowlhhaw, laly, Crosbie, and Samucb—being encouraged to continue in training and run their chance of beatiog the winners of the Champion Fours. Others held that the composition of the crew was entirely a mattor for a Selection Committee, wnile others were strongly of opinion that the first crew to represent New Zealand in Australia should be the winniug crew in the Champion Fours.