TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 574, 4 May 1868, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE

(From the Correspondent of the Evening Post.) Dunedin, 27 th April. The Claud Hamilton arrived st the Bluff yesterday. O’Farrell was hung at Sydney on the 21st, His maimer was subdued and becoming at the last awful moment. He evinced no wish to address the people assembled, but he sent a letter to Mr Partes, to be opened after his death. Melbourne news to the 21st inst. Constitutionalists refuse to form a Ministry. The Governor will not grant a dissolution. 31‘Cullooh Ims been sent for. C’remorne Gardens re-opened by Coppin. Business very dull; breadstuffs easier. Flour £2l. The Duke of Buckingham’s despatches in answer to the petition of the Council are published. His Grace urges concilia tiou, if not concession. An enthusiastic meeting iu support of M'Culloeh was held at St. George’s ITall on the 20th inst., at which Mr George Rolfe presided. Strong resolutions were passed. (From tho Correspondent of the Independent.) Dunedin, May 1. Preparations are being made for a public reception to the representative Volunteers. A ball is to be given to them on Friday. Thirteen stacks of grain belonging to J. Kemp, West Taieri, and a threshing machine belonging to John Gow has been destroyed by fire. Samuel Symms has been committed for obtaining money under false pretences. The s.s. Gothenburg has arrived, bringing dates from Victoria to the 25th ult. The Victorian diffcuHv is still unsettled, butM'Culloch is expected to resume power. New alluvial ground has been discovered at Bendigo, and is turning out well. A French transport ship has put into Hobson’s Bay, bound for New Caledonia, with 600 troops on board. Great mortality among tho children in Victoria from diptheria. The declared decrease in the wheat crop compared with that of last year was one million one hundred and fifty thousand bushels. O’Farrell left a written confession, but made no speech on the scaffold. He denies that he shot tho Prince by Fenian instigation, and asserts that he alone is responsible, and was impelled to the act by brooding over Ireland’s wrongs. Tho execution passed off without any demonstration. Nelson, May 1. A fire occurred in Hardy-street Inst evening, consuming two private residences, occupied respectively bv - Darby and Mrs Donkin. The former had but just moved iinto the house, and loses the whole of his !furniture, valued at about £3OO, including :a splendid piano. Mr Raw-son. a dentist, occupied a front I room of Mr Darby’s house, and was engaged with Mr John Greenwood in some dentistry operations. While the latter \va,-j in the act of pouring some spirits of wine from a tin, a lighted lamp being placed on the floor ; the tin wns overturned, the contents came into conta.-t with the flame of the lamp, and in a moment a vivid liquid blaze snread over the room.

Great ditnculty was experienced in getting the children out of their beds, Miss Darby, only partially dressed rushed through the flames with the youngest child in her arms and escaped unscathed. Mrs Darby, with some of the children, had to get through, a window at the back of the house. Mr Dawson loses all Ids valuable stock of dentist apparatus. Mrs Donkin, a widow, loses all her furniture, and is deprived of her living, she being dependent upon her lodgings for a subsistence. The total loss is estimated at about £llOO, and only £d".o is covered by insurance upon the buildings. Another wooden house, onlv three feet from (he nearest of those consumed was saved, thus evidencing the value of the new water supply.