The MiNisTEa fob Education. — The Hon W. P. Reoves was at the Public , Works Office yesterday morning, and met several deputations and citizens on public question?. The interviews of importance are recorded elsewhere. At the invitation of the representatives of the Labour Party in Dunedin, the Hon W. P. Reeves will address a public meeting there on Tuesday evening, aad another at Lawrence on the Thursday following. He will will be in attendance a* the Public Works Office to day between 10 and 11 a.m., after which he will be absent on departmental busi ness. He will remain in town during Thursday, and leaves for Dunedin on Friday by express train.
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- — ■» _■ ■ j*Sfecial to Press Association.] VOLUNTEER OFFICERS. LONDON, Mat 15. '• The Queen has approved the deco • ration of Colonial Volunteer officers. SUSPECTS. May 16. The police, after enquiry into the Synott explosion, have decided that it was not the work of Fenians. It is stated tbat two suspects have been - identified, and are being watched in Dublin. NICARAGUA. NEW YORK, Mat 15. News has been received that the I whole of Nicaragua is in rebellion, . Dr Robert Sacasa, the President, only I holding the capital. The Government . troops have thrice been defeated by $ the rebels and lost heavily. , CHINESE EXCLUSION. , ■■-..' Mat 16. , The Supreme Court has decided L (one Judge dissenting) that the , Chinese Exclusion Act is legal in , the enforcement of the deportation | of unregistered Chinamen. ► THE NIHILISTS. [ ST PETERSBURG, Mat 15. The Nihilists have murdered a i student in Plussa for refusing to i fulfil a pledge to kill the Czar and . Czarewitch.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
