ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7272, 10 March 1885, Page 6

ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE MAIL.

O'PONOVAN KOSSA SHOT. THIS' arch-dynamiter, as he wishes to be Jcnown, bat who is in reality only a featherbrained Irishman, was shot by a woman on Chambers-street, near Broadway, on the afternoon of February 2. At the time the streets were full of people, homeward bound, and the excitement over the shooting was intense. Although wounded, the man was recognised by vary few. The first ■hot took effect in O'Donovan's (the real name of Rosea is Jeremiah O'Donovan) body, and he fell to the side-walk; the woman continued to shoot till she emptied a five-obambered revolver. O'Donovaa was was taken to the Hospital, and placed in a cot in the same ward and within a few beds of Captain Phelan, lately stabbed by Short in O'Donovan's office. Phelaa smiled grimly when he found out who the patient was, but maintained silence. An examination of the wound showed the ball had penetrated the baok, but the doctors pronounced the patient in no immediate danger. His assailant ia an Dudley, aged 25, a nurse, and married, living at 60, Clinton Place, New York:. She Iβ a good looking womaD, dressed neatly in plain dark clothing, and wore eye-glaasei. Her manner was entirely composed, and she answered some of the questions put to her promptly and without embarrassment. To others she simply shook her head and smiled, with a look which said, " I shall only answer questions I know you have a right to ask." A citizen asked her, " Do you know the man you shot ?" •' Y«," she replied eoolly, with an English accent, "I shot O'Donovan Rosea." Further enquiry developed the faot that the woman had been almost orazsd with excitement ever since the explosions in the London Tower and Parliament Buildings, and this mental condition was intensified at tho time she wounded O'Donovan. The latter will admit of no other explanation than that she is an agent of the British Government employed to assassinate him. Patrick Joyce, his trusted friend, shares with him this opinion, and he, in common with all the dynamiters all over the United States, threaten terrible reprisals against Great Britain. With the exception of Joyce and his kind, the sentiment of nearly everybody seems to be one of regret that Mrs. Dudley's shot had not proved fatal. Rossa's assailant is kept very quiet. She receives many letters, friendly and un--friendly. Jβ an interview on February 4, ■ ghe said :—" Rosea is a doomed man. The eooner ho gets well, the sooner he will be ready for a second shot. Lots of people are waiting to fire it. He and Joyce are the men henceforth. I would have shot him with a British bulldog, only I considered he was not worth using an English weapon upon. Had I used a British pistol I would have killed him sure. If he isn't satisfied, I will challenge him to meet me anywhere alone, and armed. He can see then whether lam a good shot or not. I didn't try to kill him. One thing is certain, if he doesn't stop that newspaper dynamite talk of his there'll be » contract for an undertaker to give him and all his associates coffins." To a Sun reporter Mrs. Dudley said :— " Everyone knows all about me. I've had four husbands, and I am a widow and sing la all at once. I'm a maniac and a patriot, and a monomaniac and a crank. My husband was in the army, and so was my grandfather. I have become very interesting, bujt I won't say who or what I am, or why I killed Rossa, or whether any of my friends or relations were ever killed by dynamite explosions." TERRIBLE TALE 07 THE SEA. The Swedish brigantine Natal, Captain Enetrona, which had sailed from Boston for Brisbane and Queensland, put into New York on January 29th. A terrible mutiny had occurred on board. The captain was attacked in his berth at night by the carpenter with a broad axe, but aided by the mate he beat him off, and also the steward, who joined the assailant. The captain, ■ after stanching his woands, sallied out with the mate, and faced the carpenter, steward, and three sailors, armed withaxes, eheath-kniv.es, and capstan-bars. It was a ferocious fight, but the captaiE and mate got the best of it. The captain's son, second mate, had been murdered by the mutineers and thrown over* board. Finally, when the mutineers sub* mitted, the captain, having no leg-irons or handcuffs to secure them, shot the steward . and carpenter dead, and threw their bodies I overboard. The seamen agreed to obey orders after this. KXW POLITICAL ALLIANCE. An organisation, to be knows as the National Independent Organisation, has been formed in London, and will receive the support of many influential and representative men. A despatch of the 9th February says its objects include the upholding of the privileges of the throne, the sovereign, however, to live in England, Ireland, and Scotland alternately; promotion of national or home trading before the formation of foreign alliances, and free trade in articles of food only; increase of the British fleet in order to afford better protection to commerce, and an effort to promote an alliance with the United States, having for its sole object the defeat of any attempt by a foreign foe to invade any English-speaking country. The latter clause has attracted a great deal of attention, and the idea of such an alliance or confederation between English-speaking people of the world evidently pleases the popular fancy in Great Britain. MICHAEL DAY ITT IK KOUE. Michael Davitt, the Irish agitator, was snubbed in Rome, ou February 7th. On arriving, he went to the English hotel, but was compelled to seek other quarters, because the English there refused to sit at the same table with him. Davitt is in Rome seeking to present an address to the Pope, justifying the action of the Catholic Irish Nationalists. The Vatican is unwilling to receive him. Eminent persons are, however, . trying to procure him aa audience. ITALY AND THE SOUDAN. An Italian expedition, consisting of 1500 men, has been ordered (February 7) to proceed at once to Suakim. It is reported that 12,000 troops have been mobilised for service in Egypt, and that the Government is prepared to send 30,000 more into the Boadan. Italy has also formally replied to the protest of the Porte against the occupation of the Egyptian ports along the Red Sea by Italian forces. "It was done," the reply says, "to protect Italian subjects imperilled by the withdrawal of the Egyptian garrisons." Meantime a fleet of Turkish war vessels has been ordered to prepare for sea within a month, and this order is interpreted to mean a fixed determination to oppose Italy's encroachment on the Red Sea, and to prevent any aggressive movement by her in Northern Africa. ME. JOHN BRIGHT OK TRADE ANB WAS. At the Liberal meeting held at Birmingham, January 29, Mr. John Bright, alluding to the American tariff; said :—" The farmers of the United States are not permitted to exchange their products with the artisans of Birmingham, or the weavers of Lancashire, but are eompelled to exchange them with the protected manufacturers of their own country, who, in some oases, do not give half what the farmers aould get from the Lancashire or Birmingham manufacturers." Mr. Bright said he had no wish to reproach the Americans, who some day, he believed, would discover the right course. He felt sanguine there would be a gradual movement in America in the right direction. The time would come when England and America, although two nations, would be one people, and one in commerce. Mr. Bright strongly denounced a reiiort to arms as a means of settling international controversies. He pointed out that during Queen Victoria's reign the wars in which England had been engaged had cost the nation £150,000,000, and the lives of 68,000 men. Hβ deprecated further annexation by Great Britain, and declared that if the project of colonial federation was persisted in it was bound to result in the lost of Canada.