THE VOLUNTEERS.

Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 55, 6 March 1891, Page 3

THE VOLUNTEERS.

The following team have beon chosen to represent the D Battery in the senior ohampionship match with the Wellington Navala to-morrow at Evans' Bay. Sergeants Knohen, Petheriok, Costley, and Jefferys, Bombadier Howe, Gunners King, J. Wilson, M'Konzie, Turner, and Coombs ; emergency, Trumpeter Martin. Shooting oommenccs at 2.30 sharp.

The prize pumpkin at the Horticultural and Flower Show— one exhibited by Mr. L, G william— has been found to weigh 641b. The attendance at the Show to day has been satisfactory, and it is expected that there will be a very large gathering to-night, whet the gift auction of exhibits will take plaoe. A farm prope'ty, containing 113 acres and 14 peroheß, and situated neat Tokom&tu, on the Wellington and Manawatu Railway line, was sold at auotion this afternoon by Messrs. T. E. Macdonald and Co. The purchaser was Mr. C. P. Rioharda, and tho price paid was £4, 6s per acre. Thia morning the same auctioneers privately sold to Mr. Henry Blundell, of the Evening Post, tho family residenoe and grounds in Clifton and Talavera terraoes, formerly ooonpied by Mr. 0. Y. Shannon, and at present the abode of Mr. D. S. Melville. The prioa was .£SOO. Common jnrors summoned to attend the Supreme Court on Monday next are notified that their services will not be required. Mr. Carmiobael, ono of the contractors in oonneotion with the ereotion of the new Harbour Board offioee, informs as that last night some latrikioa or miaohieroußljdisposed persons removed the steam gauge from his donkey-engine, and also loosened a number of the taps. We understand the police have the matter in hand, information having been given by Mr. Carmichael, and it is to behoptd the perpetrators of this wanton damage may be caught and punished. Judgment was given this afternoon on the point raised by Mr. H. Vogel, counsel for Mr. Hugh Wilson, that the land on which tho Wellington Bacon Footory is erected ia sot rateable '.because it is a portion of tho Government railway reserve. The Assessor,' Mr. H. W. Robinson, EM., upheld the contention of Mr Martin, City Solioitor, that the point was one for a higher Court to decide, and tnatained the valuation of i! 100 plaoed upon the property by the City Valuer.

A telephone message from the torpedo station in Shelly Bay states that at half-poet 3 this aftornoon Ross was sinking rapidly. Mr. J. P. Brownin? is gazetted as succeeding Mr. A. Greenfield as Commiaaioner of Crown Lands at Nelson. H. H. .Taokson, Stonotead, Wairarapa. and W. J. Bnok. Nikau Flat, are appointed officers under the Fisheries Conaervation Aot within the Wellington Acclimatisation District. The following Harbour Board appointmenta on the We-tt Coast are gazetted : — Weßtporfc Harbour Board -X J. O'Coco', M.H.R.. J. J. Mojniban, and M. Organ to be members. Greymouth Harbour Eoard— A R. Gninnesa, M.H R., James Kerr, and James Petrie to be members Only one case has been aot, down for h r arin<r at the onsuing Civil Pitting of the Supreme Court. This is Meeoh v. the Corporation of Wellington, which ia to be tried before a spooial jury next Thursday. A few days ago Mr. George Woodward made a request that the boys attending the Marist Brothers' School should be allowed to take part in the CBremonv of tree planting on tho Thorndon Esplanade on tbe Queen's Birthday. Brother Mark Joseph baa replied to the effect that tbe movement has his warmest sympathy, and he will do his best to induce the pnpils to con'ribute plants and take part in the proceedings. Mepsrs. O. H. Reid, Whvigarel, and H. C. Seymour, Pioton, have resigned the Commission of the Peace. Letters of naturalisation have been issued to Koud Edward Olsen. carpenter, Opaki, Master ton. The a a Rowena was cold at auction this afternoon by order of the Vice- Admiralty Court The pnrobaser was Mr. J. M. Cleland, who bid £550 for the vepsel. Tho auctioneers were Messrs T. K. Macdonald and Co. FoundaHonß are bping laid on the reclaimed land fora new warehouse for Messrs. Manttan A Lowers, in Victoria-street, next to Messrs. Rose A Glendining's fine building. The new structure will be of brick, but in only one Btory. The material from Thompson A Co 's late premises in Panama-street ! (removed to make way for tbe D.T.C. building) ig being utilised. A middle-agpd man named Frederick Riggs, who has been in the employ of Messrs. Rains and Poters, stevedores, for some time past, was the victim of a painful accident yesterday. He was working on tho upper deck of the aUlp Caßtor, whioh is lyinor at the Railway Wharf, when he was knooked down by a bale of wool whioh had just been hoisted on board, and in some way his left ankle waß brokon. The unfortunate I fellow was carried to Dr. Collins' auTgory, ! where the broken limb waß attended to, after whioh he was oonveyed to his home at Newtown. Some time a«ro Mr. Theo. B. Jacobsen, arohitcct, of Wellington, won the prize in the competition for depi?ns for the proposed Town Hall and Municipal Buildings at Greymouth. According to the Groy River Argus, the Borough Council has just deoidad t° instruct Mr. Jaoobaen to proceed with the preparation of the detailed drawings and tbe s^ccifioiiions.