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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9909, 15 December 1892, Page 5

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN. | By BI'jBOTSIO TBLmUAPE.-cnFTKIBST.] [Special to Press Association.] NEW SOUTH WALUS COMMANDANT. ' LONDON, Dec. 13. The War Office will nominate General Hewitt, late Director of the Military College at Kingston, as successor to Major-General Richardson, late Commandant of the New South Wales forces. A DANGEROUS LUNATIC, The man who wantonly shot at and assaulted Mhs Wood, nieco of Mr Gos'ln-n, and Miss Philbrick, iu August last, has been pronounced insane, and ordered to be confined in a lunatic asylum during the Queen’s pleasure. A MAD POET. William Watson, a poet, stopped the carriage in which the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh were driving in Windsor Park. He has since been placed in close confinement as a dangerous lunatic unfit to bo at large. WORD-GUESSING COMPETITION. Dec. 14. The proprietors of the Pick-me-up newspaper have been fined 10s for a breach of the Lottery Act, and it is expected that this decision will stop all missing words competitions. OBITUARY. The death ia announced of Sir John Bernard Burke, LL.D., and Willie Beckwith, the well-known swimmer. JAY GOULD’S ESTATE. NEW YOLK, Dec. 13, Jay Gould’s executors swear that ho left sevonty-tv/o million dollars. CHITJBAL. CALCUTTA, Dec. 13.TJ A report has reached hero that the Nizam has recaptured Ohitral, and that Azt'ul, the usurper, has fled. AN INDIAN RISING. NEW YOEK, Dec. 14. News has been received that a thousand Yaquis Indians have opened war ua the w hi lew in Mexico, and are burning homesteads, A wealthy Spaniard,, and his two sons have

been killed, beside six others. Five hundred soldiers have been sent in pursuit of the Indiana.