TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1441, 15 December 1885, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The New Zealand Timber Company 1 ! branch mill, at Davenport, .Auckland, wfis discovered to be pnfireatmjWbJock lastThuarday night. i There is no water supply in the distr|ct, and the.s whole establishment and stock was destroyed ; the loss exceeds £2OOO. The insurance is £7OOO in, the Norwich Union. The Unemployed Cerataittee at Auok. land on Friday furnished the District Engineer with the following information regardingithe callings of the unemployed : —Laborers 220. carpenters 59, hricklayen 15, platelayers 10, other artisanm 158; total, 442. There ore 200 wires and 663 children dependent on the married man, who number 234. ' This information ia tc be sent to the Government. Several Auckland citizens are missing, and are supposed to have levanted by the mail steamer. The total amounbof the property tax col* looted up to last Friday night was £190,000. The time for the examination of candidates for commission* in the Imperial amiy has ' been extended! from December 31st to March 31st. Thefol I owing are_ the, subjects in which candidates will j^lej^ehtsofßxad fortifiestionß-f miiUary, tQpQgraphy; 3; * the elements (Jot tActicS.; law. The books-required to be studied for such examinations sre-il, j/iPJ^llipa’ “ Course of Artillery and Fortifications 2, “ Official Text Book of Topography 3. “ Field. .Exercises”:, nod Clergy’s “Minor factics 4, ArmyAat—Quean’a Regulations, ; 0, The Government have communications from the Earl of Limerick, .President of National Artillery Aaaooiatiop, ,itryitlßgr the visit of, a detßchment of New Zsaland Artillery to the next competitiop pf prizes, to be held at Shoeburyness in August ISSS. Thje that for the past l wo.competj lions Canada fias sent representatives for prizes which are offered by Her Majesty the Queen, Prince of Wales, :and Duke aqdrthe,,- results haye been so beheJfipiwl that , the 'Aasocia- , lion s“ve.decided to,extend the invitation to all 'British..cq|onms are mi itary or volunteer artillery, with a view to enable theeoloniea to participate in the advantages offaradbyauqh competition combined also withjnittuctiona in gunnery to pnder officers and instructors of Boyal Artillery at Shoe* buryoess. Canada is again sending representatives, andJhe Earl of Limerick ex* presses a, strong , hops that the colonies .jjill hprepteseuted. Major Gudgeon, the Upder-^reippi, (&, Ijefenpft,has issued a circular jp wi 1 offing sgsoumding Volunteer,i districts asking them to acquaint iVoluntfebrS the terms of the invitation. Major Boddatn, .to whom the invitation has been submitted, states, although be has not a report of the National Artillery Association, be believaa that the 'drill is Confined principally to heavy . guns and to position drill. In Canada, be states, there is an Artillery Association which provides funds for sending representatives to Shoeburyneas, and unless such an Association waa established in the pqlopy he anticipates a difficulty in either providing funds or selecting representatives.’, , , ; ; The Hon. Mr Ballapce iptepda to place fifty of the Dunedin unemployed on defence works. *

The 8.8. Janet JJicol ; reports Unit the new volcanic islandr near .£onga is two miles long and 300; feet high. ,' Apatriotio trader has lioistedthp British flag on It and claimed it for Queen Victoria. The Queen of Baritonga spite were accorded a.haarty isceptipn iat Tonga by the Rev. Shirley Baker and the natives of Tonga. - At the University College Council meeting at Auckland on Saturday a report <ot the Examiners recommending how the Gillies and Sinclair schularabipa should be awarded waa adopted. The Sinclair echolarship.was awarded to W. F. E. Wilson, of Dunedin, and the Gillies scholarship .to . W, . T, H. Green, of Avonside, Christchurch. Both are tenable for three years with a grant ot,£loo per annum.

The jWage offered by the Government for the unemployed at Auckland ia 4s 6d per diem. i It is intended to bold the next meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association at Wanganui early in March. *; <?

A Gazette extra has .been issued further proroguing Parliament to Monday, 16th March next. .

The i cable repairing steamer Sherard Osbotne, which arrived from Melbourne on .Saturday mornipg,. .took in fire miles of .cable, apd proceeded; to the Straits. the.' jame .night. -The work of picking up and .repairing the cable commenced yesterday,, A ;inan .naimm, Israel Easindalii was drowned on Saturday iponmig in the lluartiahanga river,,Wair^rapa.., , Mr P-ox,,(TifT'-rnpiepf gold prospector, has received, ipsirpotions ffom the Mines Department to join a party of prospectors it Big Bay on the Wqst coast.-, ,Big Bay is the!’ ftrsi buy of iCims ( equenba'north of Milford sound., Mr f'qx. loaves by the Sulla on Wodue>day. ,/. ;

The poll ;of. re 'the proposßl fo Eqrq.ogh improvenenlH at jvbs .iijKon on Saturday,,, and, t ;i ® proposal, was carried by a largo majorjly,. / i i