Thursday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 30, 23 November 1883, Page 13

Thursday.

The trial of the Fenian Poole, for the murder of Mr. Kenny, in whose case the first jury was discharged, being unable to agree upon a verdict, was concluded on Tuesday, at Dublin, when a verdict of guilty was brought in, and the prisoner sentenced to death. At the conclusion of the trial Poole spoke boastingly of his connection with the Fenian Brotherhood, but denied that he had been concerned in the murder of Kenny. Itisp ssible that the British Government will be provoked to resist the seizure of Bt. Paul de Loanda, on the west coast of Afiica, by the Portuguese Government. The Recidivist Bill, providing for the wholesale depoitation of habitual criminals from French cities to the Pacific islands, has been warmly criticised in the Senate, and the principal clause ultimately rejected by a considerable majority. The Khedive has-given orders that a force of Bashi Bazouks and some regiments of black troops shall proceed without delay to Suakin, the scene of the recent defeat of the Egyptian regulars by the rebel hill tribes. At the meeting of the Otago Land Board yesterday a letter was read from Mr. Stout to the Chairman denying the~ statement of

Messrs. Clark and Green that a motion has been proposed andpaased before they left the meeting of inquiry into the alleged dummyism. A letter from Mr. Green, written on the Bth iast, was also read, in which the writer expressed his intention of opposing the confirmation of the motion that had, as be was told, been passed after he had left, and which reversed the discussion arrived at previously. At present all that is before the public is something in the way of 'flat contradiction. Let us hope satisfactory conclusions will at length be arrived at, arid justice fully done.