NEWS SOUTH WALES.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 72, 18 May 1868, Page 122

NEWS SOUTH WALES.

O’FAJEffiHiL’S/fLE'rEEa i J,; 1- C" " “ NIAIf jsECBCTAB.T. r " “ P Tot by'Mr'Mableay, M.P., tbeAßseinbly' at Sydney, As-tbe-dyingvAeoiicatiiitt of f£pft Q’Farsrell:—-: ..: ’:. •;•-> , I |eelJ to ,giv ?if sion to tny heartfelt sorrow; for the grievous crime £ have comnuttediT-From the 1 very bottom pf : have done. 'I have hitherto) said that I wa^ one of many who were prepared to do -the deedhad I.not dpne. it. lf .l had np fqu,nda.-. tioirfor such a statement. ;' I was never, connected' with any man or any ', body of men who had for the/br object, the. taking, of the life of the Duke of EdinbiOTh. " was t in any other than an indirect manner connected, withthat. organization;. in Ireland arid elsewhere which is known by the name of "the ; Fenian organization. I wish moreover. distinctly : to .assert that there was uot a human being in existence vvho'Kad tHe sliglitebt' "idea ofthe object 1 had in; view ,when I .meditated, on, and, through the merciful providence of. God, failed in ; carrying into effect the death of the Dukpi>f Edinbugh. ; X. have: written to the printers of two Irish periodicals an address to the people, of Ireland ; ‘ ahd so certain. was I, of the death'of;the jDukp of Edinburgh that’l stated'thereih that wh’iclf I beiieved.WoUld : ' be the 'fact’ j ■ and I'fhitlk I have more .than .implied that I was^but one of an organisation to"carry, the . same into "effect.”' I need''but say : that the 1 truth of the latter portion rests upon slighter foundation than the former; in fact that, unless from' xriere'hearsayi X had ho'foundation for saying there'was a Fenian ciation in New Soiith'.'W'alesh From continually 1 ’ thinking arid talking of \vhat I may still be ajlowed lo' call the of Ireland,’ I became excited ,and.fiUed with ehthirsiasrii} and' it’ 'when ;: under the influence of.thpse.feelipgs thSt Xattempted to perpetrate the deed, for which; I. am mo3t’justly called'tipon ,T 't6 I suffer. '' '' r * : i? ‘‘H. J. O’Faeeeld.’’

Testihonlli. to have been raised iii Sydney as a priblic testimonial.. to-; O’Farrell when he attempted to assassinate the Duke of Edinburgh. Thanksgiving-* DAX.^Thb' 28th' April was kept as a day of public thanksgiving for the preservation of tlie life qf the Duke of E dinburgh front; the- hands'of an assassin, and his, restoration to health. Business was entirely 'susperided/arid re'igious services were held J in the different places of worship. .. . - * A Long .session of the New SoutK Wales’ Parliament wriicli ! was opened .by.,his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief on the 2nd .July, 1867, closed its sittirigs‘breM6riday, : 27th : April: It is the longest session Jn,the annal&of Parliamentary Government- of New South,Wales, — extending^abdir'did, over nine months. 1

DeAth; riv Mu HA r s'sAidi.—On this morn ing of Sunday,., the r 20th , ult. the Bev. , Thomas Hassall, the inuch : respected ' “ Senior GhajSlaih” in the Anglican Ghifrcb | of New. South. Wfljcfljl died at his residence iat Denbigh,, years. * - - - ,■ <, Sydney 1 tjNivEßsidnf.--Tlie Annual ■ .Commemoration of the Sydney University took place on . the, 25th ult. at ’ noon, when the students who had "passed 1 the*'requisite exaimihatidns c werd advanced to the academical, honors ,which they ( had ' earned. • The Chancellor ; delivered the usual 'oratiotf, and ! Dr Badhkm arid Earl of Belmore-made Speeches, j. . . Yipe-Begad visit to the B.IVLS. Ma-. foiltftring paragraph "appears’! . in the Empire of tlie Ist inst.:—Between four and five o’clock, yesterday , r afternoon, his Excellency 'the Earl' of Beludore, the Countess of Belmore,: and - snitb, paid a visit to the steamer-Mataurpi of the P-N.Z.' : & A R.M; leaVes ’to-aay with trie' r mails fbr ! Ehglahd via* PaihamaL The, visijbing partywere received on;board by C&ptain arid: they mride 8 tour of inspectioti J the ’ ship; and -were then : conveyedjon.shore m his; Exoellenoy’s barge." . 7 . - '' Day '^EBm^ire says the Goterinment'ofrSouth ' Austrrilia intend tproclamiipg .Sunday, Jday.-S, ris .a day*’-of public'* tHanksgiyirig^;in. alL’the churches for the recovery bf ‘B[.B'H;. the l?uke of Edinburgh. : Mysterious Death.—The Deniliquin . Chronicle that between ;the 29fch of March and the jsth of Aprfl. au unoccupiedhutrori CowlUowl ! ruri,'Lachlari,6wried by Messers ; Sypnott Brothera,* yas; Ldhcovered to have been burned down. Constable M’.Manusyisited, the, Bppt,;.and atnpngst the ruins was., found; the trunk rand f skull of ii irian' whose remains hadKeerictrasuified' 'either in the ftre rfhediutlor previous that. ocetfmng.... Nothing-exis-ted to lead deceased-, arid-the only .'articles ivfouud' yvere. the foUowing~:a black, case r.of ja jwatchy, a pair of spectacles,^scissorsj knife,^;pie-cea.^^of^a-pairofmolesKn of a Scotch :twiU~Bhtttl;The remained of it’was’ interred "on^e' 1 spot, and’ of icourse • the few police, the? district possesses are en gage ( d jin .fu ether enquries.; been committed atf 'accident oocurired through drunkenness' ;, or deoeased haying hurningqcourred dealing;with;‘4hees^oaseß'drif7th:e v burih;fit