SPECIAL TELEGRAMS, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Otago Witness, Issue 1489, 29 May 1880, Page 12

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Wellington, May 25th. An extraordinary and startling piece of information baa just reached tho Government by a special official telegram from the Government of New Siuth Wales. It is that a telegram ban been received by Lord Augustus Loftup. H ivernor of New. South Wales, from the Governor of Bombay that a steamer named the Ganie, flying Liberian coloura, left Aden on the 24th ult., professedly bound for New Britain, having on board large Btore3 of arms, ammunition, provisions, and a numerous crew, comprising persons of various nationalities. The object of her mission ia not disclosed, but from scraps of information received before she left Aden, it is suggested that r>he is bound on a piratical or^ filibustering expedition; and a further suspicion haa arisen that her operations were to be carried on against either some Auftralian and Now Zealand towns and settlements, or el-ie agaiiißt the An£?lo-Colouial shipping trade, by intercepting gold ships and other valuable prizes. The information at present to hand ia only of a very vague nature, but it was coribidered of sufficient importance to warrant the Government of Bombay in Bonding a special warning _ by cable to the Australian Governments, with a request that they would paaa it on to New Zealand.