TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 847, 12 July 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(FROM OCR OUHRTSPOVDF.NT. 1 Dunedin, July 11th. A special telegram to the Star says : A wholesale massacre has taken place in New Caledonia, at Atai, the Bowler Pass! Tribes having risen and killed and horribly mutilated the white settlers, including men, women, and children, besides many gendarmes. in all one hundred. Two military stations have been taken and burnt. Colonel Galctz Prositosi was killed whilst loading the troops. The inhabitants have entered on a war of extermination against the natives. The Convicts and Communists remain quiet. Several English residents were amongst the killed. The Men-of-War stationed round the coast fear that the rising is extending. England assumes s protectorate over Asiatic Turkey. - ’ Turkey cedes the Island of-Cyprus to England in return for her entering, into an offensive, and defensive alliance with her Colonel Wolsley is appointed Governor of the Island. Green and Clark, (the latter having agreed to relieve Bastings of the duty) start on Friday morning on their tour of inspection of tho Blocks of Land asked for settlement in the Dunstan, and St Bathan’s districts. They will probably inspect the Earnseleugh Mock on Saturday ; Mniiteric, block on Monday, and St Bathan’s Mock on Tuesday. A characteristic letter from Mr Vincent Pyke, referring to these blocks, and also, one from the lessees of the Mouterie run, stating that the 10,000 acre Block asked for on that Run, is not fitted for agricultural settlement, were read at t! o Land Board yesterday.