SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1210, 8 May 1885, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[BST ELECTRIC Te.Lh.GUA.PIL] (From our own Correspondent). Dun edik, May 7, 7.45 p.m. The Premier to day received a cablegram from the Agent-general to the effect that peace with Russia is assured. The sentence of death on Prendergast, the Pukeno murderer. has been commuted to imprisonment for life. The Dunedin Gold Dredging Company pay a dividend of 15s per share. There seems little doubt that the men raissingjfrom the defence works at Wellington have been drowned. The pi nit and machinery of the West Coast meat preserving works at Patea have been completely destroyed by lire.Mr F. S. Lee, an old resident of Oamaru, died very suddenly last night. He was ap« patently in uoud health yesterday. Booth, the temperance lecturer, continues to draw immense houses The Garrison Hall being fall to overflowing. London, May 6. A circular telegram has been add-eased to the Governments of all the Colonies by the Hon. W. B. D dley, Attorney General, suggesting that a mutual indemnification against all losses inflicted upon persons by tbe seizure of supplies of coal by an enemy’s cruiser, should be gmrantecd by all the Colonies. The memoiandum has been despatched by Mr Dailey on the advice of Admiral Tryon. The opinion on the Continent in regard to the Afghan difficulty is that Russia has gained a diplomatic victory over England. Denmark is willing to arb trate between England and Russia on the Afghan question. The rebels afci'l continue very troublesome in Saskatchewan country, and news is to hand of a severe engagement which took place between General Middleton’s forces and ihe hostile Indians in the vicinity of Catteford. Tbe French paper Paris in an article on Australia and the pacific question fears that the Germa .s will try to oust the French from the Pacific. It also praises the vine culture of Australia. Ban Granville has thanked Mr J. B Thurston Colonial Secretary of Fiji, for his services in connection with the recent commissi nof inquiry into the German laud claims iu that Island. A firm of emin ut engineers, and contrac tors have offered to provide the necessary capital for the c nstructmn of a larg ..eeau dock at Adelaide if the local committee apisraves Lord Augustus Loftus, Governor of New South Wiles, has written an article in the Pali Mall Gazette, in which he suggests that a council' similar to the Austrian R-icherth should be formed as a basis of federation.

20,0011 oersons of all c'asses have signed the memorial 'hanking tbe Col mies for their generous . .tfc s of assistance in the Soudan. it is repone I t mt 'he Australian contingent will come to England to await orders. Pan (ox won English Two Thousand Guineas.