DUNEDIN.

Evening Post, Issue 76, 8 May 1865, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Dunedin was visited with vcy heavy rains on Sunday, 31st ulr, flowing different pirtsof thy city, and causing an immensity of damage. .Some of the streets are covered with water to the depth of several inches. Great loss of property has been sustained by those who live along the Anderson Bay Road and tho new township of Kensington, many houses being to a great extent under water. At the gas works the water was some four feet deep. At Port Cha'mers much damage was done by the rain. Late at night there wns an extensive landslip on the ground immediately adjacent to the site of the new bonded store, not far from the old Port Chalmers Hotel. Several hundred tons of rock, in massive bl( cks, broke loose from the face of the cliff, and nearly covered the ground upon which the foundations of the bonded store were being placed, undoing the work of several months past employed in blasting and excavation. The damage to property in Rattmy-strcet is estimated at between £4000 and £5000. The sureties for the surrender, at the next Criminal Sitting of tho Supreme Court, of John Riordan, committed for setting fire to premises owned by him in walker-street, have given him up ; and he has been returned to gaol by Mr. Chapman, registrar of the Court, pending the finding of other sureties. It will be remembered that Riordan was admitted to bail on a Judge's order, the Resident Magistrate having refused to accept bail. Mr. Justice Richmond sat on Monday last for the trial of special jury causes remaining over from the last Civil Sitting of the Supreme Court. "M*Combe v. Teschenmker was an action for damages for an assault outside the Princess' Theatre. The defendant paid £15 into Court, and pleaded that that was sufficient compensation ; nnd he gave notice that he would give in mitigation of damages evidence of the publication of a libel on intimate friends of his by the plaintiff : the libel referred to being the article headed "The Sch iol for Scandal," of which so much ha< been before heard. The learned Judge, without calling on counsol for the plaintiff, refused to admit the proposed evidence in mitigation ; and the jury returcd a verdict for £2*5, in addition to the £\b paid iuto Court. ___________

A very wanton and savage outrage has been committed at Omagh, in the county of Tyrone. It appears that as two men, named Cullen and O'Donoghue, were passing along the public road, a few nights since, they were met by two others, named Arnold and Boardman, who shouted, "To hell with the Pope," and at once commenced nssaulting the two men. Cullen, being a moral force man, retreated, leaving his friend O'Donoghue to' defend himself as best as he could from the assaults of his anti-papistical assailants ; but as Cullen was decamping a pistol was discharged at him. He, however, escaped unwounded, and then the two ruffians proceeded with their anti-popish crusade against U'Donoghue, whom they beat in a savage manner; after which one of them drew a penknife, and wounded him severely in the arm. The two desperndos were soon apprehended an i taken before a magistrate, when Boardman was committed for triul at the assizes.