DUNEDIN.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1675, 2 July 1875, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

(Prom our own Correspondent.) This day. '■ - A Denial. «, • Guardian in authoritatively denying the Times leader, re the General Government and police, says, "Up to the present time t_ie Government never had b fore it any question whatsoever regarding the police, and the, allegations that the Minister of Justice and Minister of Immigration* are present or prospective applicants for the mythical office of Inspector ' i eneral are unfounded, and emanating fom a diseased | imagination, as neither f ntlemen or any 01*er of the Ministry ever entertained occupying Buch an office." . . Mr: V>gel. , A notice m the Sta; alluding to the Age pel-gram, says it is f. covert mean attack on Vogei, insinuating he has. sacrificed ««w Zealand for private 'interests. It is a mean return for. jis efforts to forward its progress and beh^interests. . Novfi Point of Law. a novel poini; was raisedjn applying for a new trial m t]ie Southland $ollution case— SV- Kiagswell. Mr. Macassey obS3i x? U(,§e CnaPman's jurisdiction, ffi! g ? \ m ProP er appointment as a tern Jud Se. Judge Johnston, while .. abiding agamst Mr. Macassey, said L * .'i 01!. Were a co«ect result rf 6, would be great failing of justice, /Stintf ..T- hoie conviction'a v of recent /effSted 81 T ttmS\ at would be | wecwa. Leave to appeal was given. "\ Wi":- ft"--i_^ation Returns. show a S gra^°a/etums for the half year m- ,5 eatll of an °ld Colonist. a ad a SiTE an old .reßideQ t in Invercareill, ad a well-known cricketer, died suddenly:

ent.) Mr. and Mrs. Darrell are not drawing so well as they promised to do at the first, but the weather has been very much against them. The Fakir of Oolu purposes opening here on Tuesday next. His agent, H. J. Whittington, has been here for the last few days making all necessary arrangements for his performances, and has been very successiul in all but in one respect. He could not get the theatre from Hoskins. and has to put up with the Oddfellows' Hall, which is rather small. They will raise prices, however, so as to equalise things. On leaving here, the Fakir goes straight to Auckland, thence to Sydney and on to Melbourne to open the Royal with new and startling effects for a Christmas pantomime.