Thursday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 42, 6 February 1885, Page 11

Thursday.

The case of O'Donovau Rossa is considered hopeless. Rossa asserts that the|womanhad complained to him that the recent dynamite explosions in England bad proved harmless. She desired that people should be killed, and for the furtherance of this object she had offered him her pnrse. The schooner Aurora, from Samoa to Auckland, brings news fo the effect that the Germans are exceedingly annoyed at the action of King Malietoa re the petition to the British Government, and it is reported they are fomenting a movement to depose him in favour of the vice-king, who is more favourable to the German interests. When the Aurdra left, Webber, a German merchant, the vice-king, and several chiefs were holding a conference on the subject. No open hostilites bave been shown towards the King. Sir F. Dillon Bell, Agent-general for New Zealand, has invited tbe other Agents-general to make objection to Austria's proposal to establish peual colonies so far as the Pacific is concerned. A man named Stack, who is suspected of being connected with the recent incendiarism in Adelaide has been arrested while about to commit a further act, and has been committed for trial. A fierce whirlwind was experienced on the- Papakaio Plain on Tuesday afternoon. The wind lifted the roof off a blacksmith's shop, overturned two threshing mills, leaving one with its wheels in the air, knocked down trees, and levelled everything that stood^in its way. The area it passed over was fortunately not large. Fwther precaution against dynamite outrages have been taken in London.