NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 149, 6 December 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

THE DEAN CASE. Sydney, December 4. The judge said that right up to the time of Dean’s conviction, so far as guilty knowledge was concerned, it did not matter whether Meagher knew anything about it or not, there was no conspiracy. The Crown was conducting Dean’s prosecution in the original instance, and surely it was their duty to ask the question of Smith. Affairs took & sensational turn when Mr Norton, journalist, went into the box. He admitted that he was not friendly with Crick. Detailing at length certain conversations with Meagher, he said he asked the. latter how he came to allow Crick to crawl to the top and extort a sworn confession from him, to which Meagher said — I have been damnably or diabolically trapped.” The witness, continuing said that Meagher then told him that he had visited Crick after the exposures, and asked him how he felt. Crick said :

“ Don’t ask me. I’m nearly dead, I have had an awful night, and felt like blowing my brains out.” Crick was lying in bed in the morning groaning and saying, “We shall both be sent up.” Meagher suggested that an information should be laid against Sir J. Salamons for endeavoring to bribe a guilty man to become a refugee from justice. Crick replied, “No use, we’re both bagged.” Next day Crick went into Meagher’s office and said—- “ It’s no use being at variance—one or both will have to go up,” adding “ If you do not help me out of this I’ll go to Darlinghurst (the gaol) and admit the whole truth. I will not be chained to murderer, but if you get me out I will deal fairly with you in the partnership accounts. If you don’t, you wont get a penny.” Meagher admitted, said the witness, that Crick knew Dean’s guilt many weeks before April 29th. Crick is not allowed bail. THE TURKISH CRISIS. Constantinople, November 2. Sir Phillip Currie, British Ambassador, had an interview with the Sultau, which lasted two hours, and despite the endeavors of that monarch to persuade him to alter his determination, Sir Phillip insisted on ordering M.M.S. Dryad up to the capital. The European Cabinets are considering the grave nature of the situation. Rome, December 2. The Pope is supporting what he describes as “ the noble and just cause of the Armenians.” London, December 2. English families are leaving Constantinople. The American missionaries at Knanput, Bitlis, and Manassa are virtually prisoners in their houses and the Turkish troops are protecting them against the fury of the Moslem mob. London, December 4, Two thousand Hovas attacked the English mission quarters at Arivontmaina, and murdered the Rev Johnson, and wife, and then mutilated their bodies. The remainder effected their escape. Dr Smith, the African explorer, has discovered 15 tribes of pigmies north of Lakes Rudolph and Stephaine, in the country between Abyssinia and British Eeast Africa. Melbourne, December 4. The full court has declared that the damages awarded to Greener in the case against the Abrahams for frauddently using the name of the firm upon inferior guns, not only excessive but simply outrageous. It suggested that £525 was sufficient instead of the £5,500 awarded and allowed the parties until February to confer whether the amount mentioned would be accepted or an order made for a new trial. The Government Pathologist has discovered a disease known as “ Water Rot‘” which has carried off a thousand sheep in the Western district. It has as its immediate host one of the commonest of fresh water snails- A similar discovery was recently made in New South Wales, but the host there is of a different species of snail.