TELEGRAMS..

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VII, Issue 1265, 24 March 1886, Page 2

T ELEGRAMS..

(PER UNITRD PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, March 23.

At tbe review to-day, Colonel Whitmore said the movements executed were highly creditable. The skirmishes on the present occasion had been exceptionally well done, and he could not think of a place where he had seen them done better. It had been very good at Marton, but if efficiency was also to be judged by attendance, the companies who had appeared before him ranked very highly.

AUCKLAND, March 24.

A young lady named Vesey was found drowned in Cox's creek. Her sister was drowned recently at Motuiki, since which the former has been depressed in mind.

A seaman of the Tarawera, named T. Andrews, fell overboard on the voyage from Sydney. A boat was lowered, and within nine minutes of falling overboard he was rescued, and the vessel was under weigh again. CKRISTCKURCK, Mftvch 24.

On examination four cases of the salmon ova of the Canterbury consignment of the lonic's shipment, it was found that a large number were dead, but about half the ova are good, and this is considered a very satisfactory result. In the case of the trout ova all the eggs were dead. It is supposed from being frozen during tbe passage out.

WELLINGTON, March 24.

The Indian Government have a standing offer of £5000 for a machine to clean the rhea, commonly known as China grass. C. J. Pournall, resident in Wellington, has at different times sent four machines, none of which have succeeded ; but not discouraged, he has another in band. Mr. Pournall has had experience with New Zealand flax. A statement has been made that two French chemists have succeeded in treating the rhea fibre chemically, but Mr. Pouruall states that this has nothing to do with separating the fibre from the leaf as the reward is still held out. It is thought the new French process might be applied to our flax with success.