SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
(From onr own Correspondent). Dun edit, April 30, 7.45 p.tn. A telegram from I'aponui yesterday states there has been heavy fall of snow an I Fairs, and all the o-eeks are flooded. It was decided last night to form an Irish corps in Dunedin. A large quantity of war material is expeeteil in this colony in a few days. No business of local interest was trans acted at the Land Board yesterday. It is rumoured that the Hon. \Vtri_ Robinson will take all his horses to Sydney ~ A carpenter named John Brown, working on the railway at Auckland, was knocked down by an engine to day and sustained severe injuries. The Keep It Dark Company has declared a dividend of eighteenpenca per share. There is really nothing of interest stirring.
London, April 28th. The Royal Marines embarked at Souakim to day for England. The N. S. VV. contingent now inSoudan have agreed to accept service anywhere where they may be needed, they go to India !
News from Saskatchewan district states that the care of the wounded and the difii. oulties of transport are delaying Major General Middleton’s advance, and in t,fc»e meantime the rebels have rapidly retired. The Bosphore Egyptien difficulty Eras been amicably settled. Nnbar Pasha hav. ing apoligised to the French Consu ar Agent The issue of the journal having been rev commenced.
April 29. The Standard this morning publishes a telegram from its special correspondent with General Lnmsden, to the effect tin at the Russian troops havejoccnpied Ma ucha.lt, a position on the River Murghab, 20 miles south of Penjdeh. No details, however, are given with regard to the occurrence. In the House of Commons lat nigljt Lord Edmund b’itzmaurice. Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs.annouuced that tie Government have received a telegram from Sir Peter Lumsden dated Sunday, April 26, in which he stated that the Russian troops were advancing np the Valley of Murghab, and had occupied Vlaruohak. It is reported that the Russian’s Council of the Empire will reject all the proposed concessions for the settlement of the Afghtan difficulty. =
The Russians are actively The occupation of Marnchak Russians now dispels all hope of a peaceful solutionjof the difficulty, and it is belie-ved that they are now advancing on Herat. The speech of Mr Gladstone in -fcho House of t ommons has caused alarm throughout the Continent.
Immense supplies of coal are being shipped to the Cape of Good Hope.
LATEST NEWS. The following piece of information coxnos to us from our funny contributor :
Dunedin, April SOfcii. It is absolutely true that having resolved on calling out the first-class Militia., the Government have no arms for their use. So to make a parade they have given an order to Guthrie and Larnach for 600 WOODEN GUNS With which the Militia are to ho drills*! | i
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1209, 1 May 1885, Page 2
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