TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 97, 7 August 1866, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Christchubch, August 6. Steamer Phoebe arrived from the South, and proceeded northwards. The Windover has arrived from Sydney ; the Waterlily, from Newcastle; and the Dancing Wave, from Greymouth.

Providential Escape from a Mubdebous Attack. — The New Zealand Herald, relates the following :—": — " On Sunday night last, as Mr. John George Styak, of East Tamaki, was crossing over the fieldi from a Mr. Harris's farm towards his father's residence, he was startled by the sudden rumbling of a quantity of large stones, and at the same time waa fired at by somo unseen person, the bullet whizzing unpleasantly near his head. On the following day, at about one o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Styak, on' going out with his brother for the purpose of pheasant shooting, noticed a man at a short distance from their father's house, as if he had posted himself there to watch the doings of the inmates. The man walked parallel with the two young gentlemen for some distance, and was then, lost sight of. After having been out about half an hour, the two brothers proposed to separate. They had not done so long, before Mr. Styak abruptly came upon the man again, endeavouring to screen himselfbehind a clump of high ti-tree. As soon as he learnt he was perceived, the miscreant stood up, showed a bare front, presented his pistol, and fired, the ball passing through the game bag which hung on Mr. Styak'B arm, without, however, injuring him. Mr. Styak fired in return, observed that it had taken effect, and saw blood flowing freely from the would-be assassin's right cheek. Not satisfied with, being thus thwarted, the man turned round to reload, when Mr. Styak fired a second time, and brought down his left arm, so as to cause it to hang down helpless by his side. The bloodthirsty wretch then touched a spring in his pistol, and abstracted from it a knife, or species of miniature dagger, with which he rushed upon his intended victim, with the object, no doubt, of stabbing him to the heart, as the knife entered the left breast of Mr. Syak's coat, and penetrated the powder flask in his pocket. A struggle ensued between them, and the man having extracted the knife from its firm position, was about to try the result of a second thrust, when his opponent, with all the strength that he could summon, dashed him from him. Mr. Styak now assumed the offensive, and made at the man with the butt end of his gun, but the fellow turned tail, pursued by Mr. Styak, and succeeded in escaping through the buih. The attack was certainly a most murderous one, and Mr. Styak, we cannot but add, has great reason to be thankful for his providential escape." Beicks at Tabakaki. — The Herald, of the 4th instant, has the following announcement : — " A boatload of bricks, manufactured from clay found on the banks of the Urenui, arrived from that place on Saturday evening last. The bricks are of excellent quality, and are said to be far superior to those made in Auckland, whence we have hitherto been uecui* tomed to dtrire our tupplira of tbi* «tk>lt."