TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Western Star, Issue 51, 31 October 1874, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

an; ~}• i u •■?•' f "• a a&.bej&*d** :,~ -• ♦ •■■-■ "«'< h'Q* i? -R (530 M oetk, . GonsEaro:wrier.) j # vjlftfSoCl. .iiiMl oi? .: DtNKmy, Friday. bag arrived at Hokitika the 22nd. iwi german* frigate Ancona forcif). %n HSBnuuty air the % of tiaruua coio/nott:' Tk--s Govornmeut'j sent the War * fcteanier aPiiscdrora there in cotiseijuence. The balance of the Victorian four per loan baa been withdrawn.

The notorious Nana Sahib, who played an important part in the Indian Mutiny, has been captured. He confessed to being a political agent, The Australian Associated Bank in Melbourne has taken up the balance of the Victorian lo >n at a minimum of‘9 ).

The body of Miss Pettit, who d;sadpeared from East Melbourne five months ago, was found in the Yarra. Final payments for th© Melbourne Cup show 26 left. There is a good field, including Lurline and Papapa. The Agent-General telegraphs te Mr Vogel that the Home Government intend giving New Zealand a better ship than the Rosaria for a trai ling-sh’p. Sydney merchants are urging the Government to start a Sin Francisco service, independent of Zealand, via Nouema. Intelligence has been received of the murder of the orew of the cutter Lapwing, of Auckland, at Santa Cruz. H.M.S. Sanddv had a narrow escape. Judge Chapman gave an important decision lu re G. M. Bell and Wentworth, who in June fast lo Iged applications to the Southland Waste Lands Board for land at 20s an acre the day before the proclamation raising the price to £3 was gazetted. He holds that they were entitled to the land. If his decision is upheld, it will be the means of a loss of £2,1,000 to the province.

Dyer was executed tins morning. He died without a struggle. Au hour before hi 3 execution, he m ide a statement that on the Oth July, when excited by drink but not intoxicated, ho poured kerosene over a woman at Battersea, with the intention of frightening her into confessing certain matters hut with no thought of causing her death. To screen him she said the kerosene was accidentally spilt.