A MYSTERIOUS CRUISER.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2243, 26 May 1880, Page 2

A MYSTERIOUS CRUISER.

[Bv Telegraph.]

Wellington, May 25. An extraordinary and startling piece of information has just reached the Government by a special official telegram from the Government of New South Wales. It is that a telegram has been received by Lord Augustus Loftus, Governor of New South Wales, from the Governor of Bombay, that a, steamer named the Genii, flying Liberian colors-, left Aden on the 24th ultimo, professedly bound for Port Briton, having on board large stores of arms, ammunition, and provisions, and a numerous crew, comprising persons of various nationalities. The object of her mission is not disclosed, but from scraps of information which reached Bombay before she left Aden it is suggested that she is bound on a piratical or filibustering expedition, and a further suspicion has arisen that her operations were to be carried on against either some Australian and New Zealand towns and settlements, or else against the Anglo-Colonial shipping trade by intercepting gold ships and other valuable prizes. The information at present to hand is only* of a very vague nature, but it was considered of sufficient importance, to warrant the Government of Bombay in sending a special warning by cable to the Australian Government with a request that they would pass it on to New Zealand.— (Correspondent of the “ Press ”)