TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1609, 5 October 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(FIOKOUR OWN COn:iT>rOIifDENT. ) Welltvovox, 3. His Excellency the Gorei-nor h\a agieed to proclaim a public holiday here on Tliurstley loth insi. on t!io occasion of the JMeuc'ly Societies demonstration. Negotiations ro Frisco nail oevvice are still being carried on. No information has yet Wn received respecting the cable subsidy. A doll show in connection with, aud in aid of the Girls friendly society i in be'ng held here aud is largely a*-- j < teiflfid. Lady Jervoig performed the 1 1 opening ceremony. 1

T.ic exhibition co ui-'ues to be ibe centw of att : ?ciion. Mr G. A. Sala delivers two lecttves there on Monday and Tuesday nexL The Exhibition is to be closed at the end. of the mootb. Prior to his depart ore for»G»e** mouth a few of the leading vesule'u^ of Maatevtoa presented Se; 1 Hen v McArdle with a purse of sovereis'i* and an address in token of their ay preciation of his good qjalUies. The American Corvette Enterprise now ou a scientific toir of'the woildi i* expected here withii the next fortnighu She remains a teek. Auckland, 8. For th« Gillies and Sinclair scholarships there are ike candidates, two of whom are fi'rtn Duredin and two from Canterbury. One is a lac'y. There is only one candidate from Auckland - Before the Wairarapa sailed to day a girl named Ethel Grey or Lubnn, wps arrested on a charge of larceny as a bailie of furniture of the valnu of £130. The goods were staled to !jb in a house of ill-fume. The cp.se was dis Disced. A ma:i ncmed PhiMpTea^ue, whi'o putting out a*fire*in";H<? house, bu. st a blood vesel and expired ChbISTCHUBSE 8. 7e t 7 heavy rain fell iti the Novihem district during the greater part of the night It will do an'immensc atconnt of good to crops which have suftercd seriously from the*e3ect3 of north westers. Tbfc N. Z. Alliance tae elected Mr W. H. Wvnn Williams of Chrietchurcii, President, and Mr F. Fen wick of Dunediu Y<ce preside Jt. The championship races have been allotted 'as follow: — One rai"e*~it Auckland ; five miles at Chris tcliurch ; ten* miles at* ';Duneain. The next annaal^meeting will be held at A ackland. Dokedw 2. At an enteitainment given by tbe Invercargiil Band, Mr G. A. Sale made one of bin best speeches giving a comprehensive sketch of tbe|Lisio v y of British Volunteers and wa« hea«ti!y chee.ed. He leaves for Wellington to-morrow. The first Cocoa and Chocolate roacliinevy 'erected in tbe'colony was started to day. The machinery oo!y left Paris'?some*ten weeks ago>nd a portion of It was received by ibe Arawa i InvercarsH ft. A company has t>een formed to test the capability of Bluff clay as a Component part in the me.uafHCture o r cement. It has been proved that a combination of tbis clay and of lime alone is sufficient to form a cement tip to the standard required by Government. The company is now at work and has purchased the "'necessary machine* y*"and£3a *lease^of ground at the Bluff together with Mr Thompson's patent rights. Dunedin, 2. A deputation* waited ca the Premier on a question of expenditure on defence. In the course ot bia reply, the I'remier stated that government before the war s<\.re ?>ad received confidential dispatches rs to what had been the former intentions of Russia when war had nearly broken crt, and it waa nonsense to say that the Colony, would not have been attached. He blatad that ths.government were decreasing the A. C. force whiali now numbered only 300, whereas*;when they tcck ; office the number was 650. v Govern- ' meiit had also decreased the expenditure on volunteers by 50 per cent,