TELEGRAPHIC.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 8148, 28 April 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

O— (from our own correspondent.) Taupo, Monday. One officer and forty men who are engaged in the construction of the Taupo-Wanganui-road are under orders to proceed to Wellington. _>■ The losses sustained by the late fire are nearly covered by insurance.

JpKH UNITED PHEBB ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, Monday. A public half-holiday was observed today owing to the special parade of the Volunteers of the district under Colonel Lyons, the officer commanding the district. About 350 Volunteers of all arms mustered on exceedingly short notice. They wero taken in steamers to the North Shore, where they manoeuvred to repel imaginary attacks by lauding parties at two points on the Takapuna beach. The 40-pounder Armstrong on the North Head defences took part in the defence of Takapnna beach The Customs launch represented the landing party. About 4000 spectators on llagBtaffi Hill and North Head witnessed with pieat interest tho mimic fight on tho plain below. Wangantji, Monday. T.\vo Salvation Army women wero

fined 5a each to-day for creating a disturbance on Saturday night by promenading the streets in disguises. The Premier and Messrs Blair, Mills, and Rochfort arrived last; night from Taupo, and left again by special train to Foxton at midnight to catch the Wellington coach this morning. The Premier speaks highly of the river and the Land near the river that the railway taps. Ngatae, an influential chief from Taumat runui, came with the Premier to Wanganui, the first time Ngatae has been here for years. Wellington, Monday. Information has been received that H.M.S. Espiegle arrived off Wakapuaka yesterday. She, it is understood, will protect that part of the coast. Captains Newall, Gordon, and Gudgeon, of the A.O. force, are to receive promotion and will rank as majors. Captain Newall is stationed in Canterbury, Captain Gordon in Otago, and Captain Gudgeon remains in charge of the permanent artillery at Wellington. Messrs Levin and Co. have received instructions from the Admiralty to load the Coptic with 2000 tons of coal, and to retain the officers and crew and sufficient stewards to attend on about 20 saloon passengers. ! An extraordinary Gazette was pub- i Ifshed this afternoon further proroguing Parliament to Friday, the Bfch of May. There have been 1404 names placed on the first-class militia roll for this city. The Premier returned to Wellington this evening, having come overland from Auckland. The Volunteers were marched to Island Bay this afternoon to repel the supposed landing of a hostile force. There was a capital muster, each corps being well represented. The Artillery divided itself into two batteries, and took up a strong position on the high hills surrounding Island Bay, from which they covered the advance of the Heretaunga Light Horse, and also the infantry. The landing party consisted of Armed Constabulary under Captains Gudgeon and Coleman. They were eventually beaten off. Major Butts and Colonel Pearce complimented the "Volunteers and the Constabulary on their successful manoeuvring. CiißisTCHimcir, Monday. )g About 11.15 p.m. on Saturday John Green, carpenter of the barque Colleen, was speaking to the cook of the Invercargill on the Gladstone pier. Green asked the other man what ship ho belonged to, and, on the cook replying the Invercargill, began to abuse the owners of the ship. Leslie, an apprentice of the Invercargill, then came up, and a quarrel with Green ensued on the subject. This led to a fight, and Leslie getting the better of the first round Green produced a pockofc-knife and stabbed Leslie with it three or four times, one of the cuts, it is feared, penetrating one of his lungs. Dr M'Donald, who was called in, can give no opinion yet as to the probable result of the case, as the patient is in a very precarious condition. Greou was arrested, by the police. There were 244 Volunteers at the parade here to-day. A company and detachment of Artillery, with a gun, proceeded to Sumner, and the remainder of the corps to Lyttelton. The men were put through various movements aa might be expected to be necessary in the event of an enemy attacking the seaboard) under the direction of Colonel Lean. The students of Canterbury College have organised a Rifle Company GO strong, which, if its services are accepted by the Government, will be commanded by Captain Hutton, late of Her Majesty's service. In the Divorce Court to-day his Honor Mr Justice Johnston granted a decree absolute in Tole v. Tole and others. A rule "jiisi was granted in Smith v. Smith and Murphy and Clifford, co-respondents. The defendant Smith had been of drunken habits before she committod adultery with the co-respondent. Later. Leslie, the ship apprentice who was stabbed by J. Green, carpenter of the barque Colleen, at Lyttelton, on Saturday, is still in a precarious state. Green f ■ was brought up at the R.M. Court to-day * and remanded till Wednesday. Hokitika, Monday. The Ross United Company have washed down the boxes at their elevators, and have obtained 1260z5. 15Adwts. of gold. Little else than top stuff was put through during this run. Dunedin, Monday. The compulsory parade of Volunteers waß well attended. The Dunedin men were marched out to Ocean Beach, where they were supposed to repel an attempt to land. The Port Chalmers Volunteers, with the North Dunedin Rifles, were engaged in resisting the supposed attempt " to land at Port Chalmers. Oama.ru, Monday. A threshing mill and two stacks of wheat were burnt at; Ngapara on Friday last. The mill was ineured for £220 in the Now Zealand office, but half was reinsured in the Colonial. The wheat was insured at 2s Gd per bushel. After paying all expenses connected with the mission, the Blue Ribbon Array handed Mrs Leavitt the sum of £21. Invercargill, Monday. In the Supreme Court to-day the case of O'Hara v. the Equitable Insurance Company, claim of JGIGO, balance of amount due on an insurance of stacks destroyed by fire, ended in a nonsuit. The case of Louis Rodger v. Eobert Smith, claim of £1000 damages for Blander, was heard. The parties had a quarrel in a railway carriage arising out of defendant addressing plaintiff familiarly as "Louie," which he resented, defendant being unknown to him. The altercation, it waa alleged, culminated in an inuendo that Rodger's premises, which had been recently burnt, wera over-insured, and that the fire had been a good thing for him. The evidence of one witness was to „ the effect that the best that could have r been doae with the disputants would have been to call in the guard and give both in charge, their language was so offensive to each other. The hearing of the case created much amusement in a crowded Court, the plaintiff becoming much excited under cross-examination. The jury, after retiring, returned in five minutes with a verdict for defendant, with costs on the highest scale.