DUNEDIN.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1696, 26 July 1875, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

(From our own Correspondent.) 1 his day. Funeral Reform. The Funeral Reform Association shows symptoms of reviving. A meeting of ladies will be held to-day to consider means of supplying mourning costume. The Corporation and the Gas Works. At the City Council Mr Curtis, gas engineer, of Melbourne to repoit on the suitability of tbe pi\?Eent Gas works. The Mayor in answer i;o 3. requisition has convened a public meeting for Tbnrjttay to considw tlio gas question. Tlie Suicide at Port Chalmers. On Friday of ternoon, information was given to the police at Port Chalmers of the mysterious disappearance of a young man named Turner in the employ Mr Banchop, builder. lb appears that on Tuesday morning he had a few words with his employer and shortly afterwards left his work, leaving his jumper behind. On Friday evening his cap was found floating close to the graving dock, but no apprehension was entertained that he had committed suicide. He had, on similar occasions some time back, left; his work, end, after a few clays, was found at work at Tokomairiro. The police, on being acquainted with the above facts, and that the cap had been found, dragged the vicinity of the dock, and shortly afterwards, on Saturday, picked up the body, about twenty-five feet from the head of the deck.

New Paper. At a public meeting held in Queecstown, the capital for the establishment of a new pßper, under the Joint Stock Company'? Act, was subscribed. The Mayoral Election.

Mr Beeves writes to the Star that he lost many votes at the Mayoral election by a slanderous statement and a sting of reproach levelled at him to the effect that he was a Fenian ; whereas he is really a member of the Church of England. At an inquest held on the body of Turner, a verdict of suicide while in a state of temporary insanity was returned. Kelly, the Auckland Pedestrian.

Kelly, of Auckland, tried his feat of running ten miles under an hour on Saturday, but owing to the execrable condition of the ground he was eleven minutes over time. A similar task was tried at Oamaru by young Delaney, who also failed, being six minutes over time.

Wiltshire walked his 250 miles at Oamaru thirty-five minutes under the hundred hours, thus stamping himself as premier pedestrian of New Zealand. If Edwards declines his challenge to walk him for £100, he promises to walk 110 miles within twenty-five hours.