SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1214, 5 June 1885, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[By -ELECTRIC'TELEGRAPH.] (From our own Correspondent). Dunedis, June 5, 7.45 p.m. , The nigbi alarm ..f Volunteer’s last . igbt was very aucoesaiul. The’alarm rang out at hj ilfpast ten, and in 20 minutes the whole crowd of Volunteer’s amounting to over 1000 had turned out, 200 of these be-, ing different corps up and down the railway line. Colonel Whitm .ro complimented the men. , There is not to be an inquiry, into alleged dummjism at Benmire run, the Board’s solicitor having advised the Board that it caunot interfere, as the tun is University endowment. . " ‘ ■

A daring bank robbery is reported from Melbourne. The manager and clerk, cf a branch of the National Bank of Australia at Simpson’s Road, a short distance from the city, were auackel by three masked men just on their arrival .from the chief office with-LI 155. •. The were both knocked down and tbeir hands securely tied behind th«icbacks, in which position' they were left, the robbers getting clear off with their booty. The numbers iof the notes stolen are not known, and there is no clue yet of the robbers; The robbers effected an entrance into the building through a window, end awaite I the arrival of the manager and assistant inside the bank. The attack was so sudden that resistance was impossible on the pa-t of the victim*, who were gagged and bound hand and foot under the .table when eventually discovered.

The Frisco mail arrived by north express tomicht.

Mr Robert Wilson proceeds to represent the Chamber of Co nmerce to the South Sea Islands by the Janet Nicholl. E ich of the of-er principal towns will also send a representative.

The United Alpine Company has declared a dividend of 61 per share.

The City Licensing Bench suit again, today, but no further 11 o’clock licenses were granted. ” CABLE NEWS. London, June 2. The various dispatches which have passed between the New Zealand and the Home Governments on the subject of the recent Maori embassy have been published. Among them is a memorandum from the New Zealand Ministry, dated March 28, which declares that there is nothing in the memorial presented by the embassy which had not been previously satisfactorily answered by the Colonial Government.

The 2nd battalion of theEist Surrey regiment en route to-.England from the Soudan have been disembarked at Alexandria.

Telegrams announce that a severe earthquake visited the district of Cashmere, and caused heavy loss of life. It is now anthoritively nontified that the town of Penj'leh has b en ceded to Russia., if' The military authorities at Herat are irritated at the cession of the town.