Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 981, 31 March 1871, Page 2

Telegraphic Intelligence.

FROM GREFILLFS TELEGRAM COMPANY Raider's Agents, Rumored Warning of an .American Filibustering- Expedition.

DUNEDIN. Thursday, March 30. It is reported lien; that the Governor has been warned against an American filibustering expedition.

Q mrtz from New Caledonia has bf>en tested at Sydney, and found to contain payable gold, A Victorian paper says that a plant variously known as coekspur, cockle, and star-thistle, has made its appear mice in that district. It spreads rapidly in cereal crops, and not only chokes a large portion, but renders it very difficult to reap. On December 27, Dr held an inquest at the Cherry Tree. Bowling-green-lane, Clerkenwell, touching the death of Jemima Hall, agod twentyone. Ihti deceased was in service at 71, Myddelton-sqnare, and was taken ill on Wednesday, and put to bed complaining of pains in her inside ; a doctor was called in, saw her that day and the next, but was unable to discover the nature of her malady, and on his calling the third rime she was dead. When a post mortem examination was made by the coroner's order, it was found that the whole of the organs of the trunk wvre contracted and out of their place. Her stomach was smaller than that cf an ordinary infant, and her heart only weighed four ounces. Death arose from congestion of the lung-; and brain, the resu:t of tight lacing, a practice which the young woman had long persevered in. TJih jury returned a verdict of " Death from congestion of the lungs and brain produced by tight lacing."

The Colonial prize-firing this year lasted ten days, the longest period over which it has yet extended. The kilt mania seem;: to he spreading in London. According to a London paper, a new fourth kilt company of volunteers is in conr.se of formation It is stated that a well known fanner on the Alma Plains, South Australia, has reaped 4000 bushels of wheat from 300 acres of self so.vn land. The following is from a Nelson contemporary :—A singular accident oc curred yesterday to Mr George Wilson, chief officer of the whip Wild Duck Some parties fishing from the wharf hauler! up a fi«h kuo>vn as the "stinging ray " Mr Wilson, feeling interested in the capture of the fish, approached to look at it, and placed his hand under its fin, when he was warned by Mr Aker-?ten, who was prevent, that it- was rather a dangerous customer to'meddle with. Mr Wilson leplied that he knew all about them, and put his foot on the animal's head; as quick as thought the fish whipped round its tail, and struck him on the leg, just helow the calf, driving the jagged spike with which the tail is armed completely throng the flesh, thus inflicting an ugly and painful wound Mr Wilson fainted, hut medical assistance being procured and restoratives administered, he somewhat recovered fiom the effects of his misfortune, although we hear it i«* likely to be some time before he will be in a fit state to attend tq his duties. The following narrative of a daring escape from Italian brigands was extracted from a private letter from Florence, and forwarded to an English journal for publication : Four men captured and held in pawn by the famous brigand Fuoco have performed a deed of heroism which deserves to be requited by some conspicuous form of public acknowledgment. Who they were and where they were seized we do not learn ; but on the 16th instant they were in the custody of their captors in a w.dl-wooded retreat, about half-way up Mount Cavalia, in Terra di Lavore. The "brigands, five in number, had plenty to eat and drink, and wh<ni they had appeased their natural cravings, became very sociable, consented to loosen their prisoners' bonds, and beguiled the evening hours with cards, varied by pitch and-to-s, played not with vile half-pence, but with five-franc pieces-- and napoleons.. The fiask all the while circulated without stint, and in good time the robbers diopped off to sleep, leaving one of their number, armed with a revolver, to keep watch the prisoners. At the preconcerted signal each of them had his part cut out for him, and pel formed it with perfect, success. When the word was given, No. 1 darted forward, and, with a small pocket-knife, obtained we are not told how, divided the snoring Fuoco's weasand a** clean as a whistle ; No. 2 made for an axe which he had kept in view all the evening, and dexterously clove the skull of the second sleeper; No. 3, armed with a wooden mallet, devoted his whole attention to another The sentinel seems to ha\e kept a bad lookout, for we learn that he was despatched by a shot from a gun belonging to one of his slain companions ; and the fifth of the batch, re turning to consciousness in time to see Ihe tables turned upon him, found safety in flight, not, however, without receiving a broad hint to tie oft", in the shape of a random stroke fiom the axe above mentioned. Cur four heroes thus remained masters of the field, and after collecting the spoil, consisting of three rifles, a dagger, a cake of soap, and a sensational romance "from the French," not forgetting, probably, the five-franc piece." and the napoleons with which their captors had improved their last remaining horns here below, made the best of their way down to the \illageof Picinisco, where they brought the joyful but unexpected tidings that the redoubted Fuoco's earthly career was at an end. Fuoco, after having been for years the terror of the neighborhood, had retired to Home upon a decent competence, but bad speculations and ilrnk subsequently undermined his if. sources, and last spring he took to business again, returning to the scenes of his former exploits, and managing to "»et <he law at defiance, until in an evil hour he formed the acquaintance of out* clever friends.