LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 25th March.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 71, 26 March 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 25th March.

It is anticipated that 1000 volunteers will gather at the Easter Volunteer Keview. Ihe Waikato and Thames furnish 400. Zambra, photographer, early this morning fell over the Queen-street wharf on to the deck of the kotoh Fanny Thornton, head foremost. One of the crew coming on deck found him bathed in blood, and his skull fractured. The case is hopeless. Zambra iB related to Zambra of the London firm of Negretti and Zambra. At the Grammar School enquiry evidence was taken in favour of Macrae from several pupils of the old High School. Forty pupils of the High School and Grammar School are summoned for to-morrow in favour of Macrae. The Waitangi meeting still continues. They opened the hall for the Native Minister, but would not unveil the monument. The Hon. Mr. Eolleßton returned to-day. This Dat. A boat containing five persons capsized in the Hokianga River. The occupants were rescued by natives after being half an hour in the water. Mrs. M'Lenan, one of the occupants of the boat, was only three weeks recovered from her confinement, and had an infant in her arms, to which she clung until resoued. She is ill from the shock, but it is hoped not seriously. New Pltmouth, 25th March. A briquette made from D. Atkinson's cement, broken at the harbor works to-day, withstood a tensile strain of 17-slbs to the inch. The Portland cement, now being used by the Government Resident Engineer, only averaged a strain of 1801bs to the inch. Mr. A. Lilo/of Waitara. while engaged in pouring sulphuric acid from a jug into an aSrated-water machine the handle came off, and the jng falling to the ground splashed the contents over Lile, burning his face, eyes, and arms severely. Remedies were applied, which relieved the pain considerably Lile fortunately closed his eyes when the jug fell, thereby saving his eyesight from injury. Invercargill, 25th March. An Irishman, named Henry Urquhart, was killed at the Lady Darkly Saw Mills yesterday, through a tree falling on him.