TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 23, 14 June 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[OMITBD PBESS A6SOCIATION.I In VEBCAEOILL, 12th June. Twenty-one sections in the Seaward Bosh havo been taken up nnderthe special settlement clauses of the Land Act. The siystom 18 to ho tried in other parts of the district. A number of people intend to leavo for Kimberley shortly. One party of six is taking wagons, horses', and two tons of provisions. They have a, capital of iiIOOO. Should sufficient induuoment offer, a steamer will load at the Bluff for Derby early in July. Chbibtchurch, ThisDat. William Terrall, an old and respected resident at T'apaiiui, was 'found dead in his chair on Saturday evening. Ho had been unwell for some time past. A girl named Brown, six years old, fell into a fire in her father's house, at Cnst, on Saturday. She was fearfully burned, and there is little hope of her recovei'y. Wangantji, This Dat. Messrs. Butler and Stevens, Land Purchase Commissioners, returned yesterday from their mission up Wang&nui ftiver, where they have been securing signatures to the deed of sale of the Waimarino block, abutting on the central railway lino. They report being very successful. Captain Sommerville's report on the eighth mooting of the New Zealand Kifle Association, held at Wanganui, is very satisfactory in every respect, f=ave as regards the range. As to the rifles for next year, he has been promised by the Defenco Minister 500 Martini-Enfields, if possible to procure them. The balance to the credit of the Association is .£BO ss.