DUNEDIN.
August 5. Mr Hazlett, of Dunedin, has purchased Mata for £700.
An advice received here states that the Rev. Father Larkin has been committed for trial for manslaughter at Honolulu. He had devised a school, which fell in while in course of construction, killing a Kanaka boy.
A conference of the Chamber of Commerce, the 9arbor Board,- the City Council, and the Port Chalmers Council, has affirmed the desirability of erecting a new graving dock, 500 feet long, at a cost not exceeding £100,000. The conference also passed a resolution that a bill should be introduced into Parliament for resisting the existing dock and port harbor reserves in a trust, with the object ot facilitating the construction of the proposed dock. The Chairman of the Harbor Board and Chamber of Commerce, and the Mayor of Dunedin and Port Chalmers, were appointed a deputation to proceed to Wellington on Monday to cooperate with Mr Macandrew in the matter.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3153, 5 August 1881, Page 3
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158DUNEDIN. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3153, 5 August 1881, Page 3
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