SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1216, 19 June 1885, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

(From our own Correspondent). Dunedin, June 19, 7.45 p.m. The Arawata brings news from Fiji that the sugar crop is very favorable-

Td eater day in the House of Representatives an address of congratulation to the Queen in connection with the New South Wdleaconthge.it to the Soudan was adopted unanimously. Lucas, who was sentenced at the Supreme Court last week to five years foi the attempted murder of his wife, escaped from custody at Timarn yesterday. In a short time a number of police and others were out, and at about eleven o’clock he was captured some five miles from town by Inspector Brohara and Constable Satchwell. He stated he intended to lay by till night and then “ see his and it

is supposed that he intended to kill her.

There are reports of heavy floods from the West Coast and Canter* bury.

The Victorian Parliament was opened yesterday. The call ot the Upper House is to be h«ld on .Tune 30 to consider the recent additions to the ranks of the Legislative Council. An attempt was made to do away with the Waste Committee of the House yesterday, but the attempt failed.

Sir Julius Vogel to-day gave notice of “ Gold Duty Abolition Bill.” The Government has replied to Waste Land Board that it cannot grant another inquiry into alleged dummyism at Waitahuna. The barque Fannie M., bound from Newcastle to Wallaroo,was run ashore on Kangaroo Island. She took lire after striking and is now ablaze from stem to stern. London, June 16. Prince Frederick Charles, nephew of the Emperor of Germany, died to day, aged 67. Negotiations for the formation of a new Ministry are still in progress, and there are rumours of a divergence of opinion among the leaders of the Conservative p;rty. It being stated that L‘>rd Randolph Churchill and Sir M, Hicks-Beach are opposed to the inc u* sion of Sir Stafford Northcofe in the administration as wished by Lord Salisbury. Sir Stafford Northcote will probably be raised to the peerage. The House of Commons has accepted the amendments which were introduced by the House ot Lords into the “Redistribution of seats Bill.” The spread of the cholera in Spain is causing great alarm here, and a complete exodus of citizens is taking place in consequence. The failure of the Suez Canal Conference to arrive at a defi .ite conclusion regarding control and working of the Canal has irritated the French Government.