DUNEDIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3511, 9 October 1882, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

October 9. At a meeting of the creditors of Richard Dodda Thomson, a Customs officer, it transpired tbat the debtor was in receipt of a salary of £150 a year, and was living at the rate of £500. He bad incurred a number of debts without any attempt to settle them. Mr James Demean was appointed trustee, and was instructed to represent these facts to the Government. A most successful meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association is promised, and every district in Otago will be represented. At tbe City Court to-day Pierce Butler and Patrick Gaiety were each fined 40s and costs, or one month's imprisonment, for illegally catching trout. In the totalisator case the magistrate gave judgment for the amount paid into Court, holding that Goodison and the other five investors were only entitled fo one-fifth each of the amount registered. A fatal accident occurred on the tramway yesterday. About 11 o'clock the steam engine, with two cars attached, was coming from North East Valley. A little boy named Tetters, aged about 10, the son of a shoemaker in the valley, was in the car nearest the engine, and attempted to get out without gi»ing a signal to stop. He swung right under the car, and the wheels passed over his neck and arm. His head was cut almost entirely off. The conductor was in the second car taking tickets at the time. A gentleman who saw the lad getting off gave the signal to stop, but it was too late to prevent the accident. Ann Sherry, against whom there were eighty-eight previous convictions, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at tbe Police Court on Saturday for being an incorrigible rogue and vagabond. Tbe Rotomahana will leave here for Melbourne on October 26th, arriving the night before the Melbourne Cup.