SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1197, 6 February 1885, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

{PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Ounedi s , February 5, 7 35 p.m. The Minister for Poblic works is expected in town to moirow evening. The Waitahuna Dummyism Enquiry was resumed yesterday and adjourned till next Wednesday. The Aorangi left this morning for Lyttle■ton with thirty three thousand' pounds worth of cargo The ship Wellington arrived in port last evening from London. It is[reported that payable gold has been discovered on a farm near Tapanui. The Fan Tan cases were heard at the Police Court to-day. The banker and croupier were fined live poun is each, and eighteen others one pound each. A shocking case of suicide occurred at Timaru last evening. Mrs Olive Kay, the invalid wife of a laborer, obtained a razor from one of her young children and cut her throat, completely severing the windpipe, she died in an hour after, Her mind is supposed to have been affected by long illness, an inquest is to be held. A man named Stock who is suspected of being connected with the recent incendiarism in Melbourne, was arrested while about to commit a further act and has been committed for trial.

At Hawera, yesterday afternoon, Michael Bourke, brewer; and Harry Hughes, brewers assistant ; were charged with having knowingly conveyed spirits on which the full duty had not been paid. Thomas Lloyd, publican, was charged with having in his possession spirits on which full duty was not paid. All three were remanded. Further arrests are those of George Beamish (ex-publican at Patea) and John Anderson. One of the whisky makers, one Jessop, of illicit whisky fame, will bear witness for the prosecution in this instance. At the Land Board to-day, the Government having agreed to the revocation of the proclamation setting apart deferred payment sections 17 and 18, i lock 111, ! auder district, the Board took into consideration the question of the amount of valuation to be allowed for improvements on sections in question, on account of improvements on same be offered for sale at upset price of L2 per acre with valtuition for improvements. The Naseby police withdrew the charge against John Creighton for cattle stealing. Ihe Wellington Gold . Cup w»s won by Administrator by short head from Sou’wester, Lady Evelyn half a length behind. CABLE NEWS.

London. February 4. A. man bas been arrested who is believed to be implicated with Gilbert, now in custody in connection with the dynamite out rage at the Tower. The Porte has sent a strong protest to Rome against the . recent annexations by Italy on the Red Sea coast.

The assailant of O’Donovan Rossa is an hospital nurse named Dudley. It is supposed that her act was prompted by indignation at the recent outrage of the Dynemitards in London. Sanity is doubted in some quarters: Rossa’s wound is not a fatal one.

A force consisting of 80 British Hussars and some Egyptian troops, which was despatched to Hanrda to .burn it down, had effected its purpose, and were returning to Suakim when it was surrounded by a large body of rebels. Heavy fighting ensued, but the Hussars and Egyptians surceeded in effecting their escape with the loss ,of eight men killed, five of whoin were Hussars.

-If is'expected that Italy will occupy Snakim, a town on the Red Sea. Portugal has seized the banks of the Congo. The Chinese outworks at Kelung have been captured by the French with a loss of 11 killed and 53 wounded. The Hon. G; J. Gosohen, speaking at Edinburgh, stated that the union of the Colonies was essential to the Empire. Mrs Dudley, the woman who shot O’Donovan Eossa, is regarded as a heroine in the United States. Dp to the present Rossa’s medicalattendants have been unable to extract the bullet.