DUNEDIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3485, 7 September 1882, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

September 7. The Dunedin Presbytery, by six to three, has carried a resolution asking the Synod to enjoin ministers not to perform or countenance marriages with a deceased wife's sister. The Cromwell Company last week, crushed Beventy tons of stone, yielding 158! ounces of amalgam, and a 400-ounce cake for the month is expected. A claim came before the Compensation Court under the Public Works Act yesterday, in which a claimant named Henderson seeks to recover £1062, the value of lands taken and injuriously affected by the Catlins River railway. The defence set up for the Crown was that against this compensation could be Bet off under the Act the amount of the increased value given to the land by the railway running through it, which the Crown asserted to be £2 peracre. Judge Williams said he could not decide the point at once, but at first sight it seemed to be a piece of startling legislation if the Act did provide as stated, for neighboring owners thus received a benefit unchallenged, which was denied to the owner through whose laDd the line happened to pass.

The prospectus is out for a new insurance company, having headquarters here, to be called tbe Equitable Insurance Association ot New Zealand. It will eventually include life business, and fire business will be confined to the colony. It will also include the issue of bonus as well as ordinary policies, the bonus being divided after ten per cent, has been paid to the shareholders.