DUNEDIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3546, 20 November 1882, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

November 20.

On dit that telegraphic advice has been received here stating that the freezing apparatus on board the steamer Marsala broke down, and that in consequence her cargo of meat had to be thrown overboard. It is understood that the entire shipment was insured in home offices.

The meeting of citizens on Saturday to protest against the removal to Auckland of Mr Caldwell, the Governor of Dunedin gaol, was attended by one hundred persons. A resolution was adopted asking the Government to allow Mr Caldwell to continue here, and urging that his long and satisfactory services in this Island afforded a plea against his removal.

Tbe auditing of the accounts of Vincent County has resulted in the discovery of a deficit of about £400. Tbe clerk, Mr George Clark, has been suspended, and. it is understood, admits that he has appropriated tbe money. His accounts are being carefully gone through by tbe Government auditor. . This discovery further involves the affairs of this unfortunate county, the struggles for the chairmanship of which have become so notorious by deadlock meetings and Supreme Court proceedings. A deplorable fatal accident occurred on Saturday to Mr Seaton, M.H.R., and has occasioned much sorrow here. Mr Seaton, who lived some miles out of town on the Peninsula, bad bought a new buggy horse at the public sale yards in the morning, and was driving this horse, about half-past 2 o'clock, up Princesstreet, when it took fright and bolted up Stafford-street, eventually running tbe trap against a lamp-post in Hope-street. The collision freed the horse from the trap, out of which Mr Seaton seems to have been pulled, probably by tbe reins, and he was dragged a little distance down the channelling. Two constables picked him up in an insensible state and bleeding freely, and he was taken to a neighboring hotel, where it was found by a medical man that [Mr Seaton's skull was badly fractured He died within a minute or two of the accident. Mr Seaton was an old settler in the province. He had sat in the Provincial Council, and also for several sessions in the General Assembly, and had at one time gone Home as emigration agent. At the last general election he was returned, after a contest, for the Peninsula, and on Tuesday evening his constituents intended entertaining him at a banquet. The entries received for the Agricaltural Show this year number 753, as against 768 last year. In Lincolns there is an increase this year, there being 66 as compared with 18 last year. Shorthorn cattle show a falling off, but Ayrshire are nearly twice as many. Fat cattle are scarce, only 20 entering as compared with 27 last year. Both in implements and dairy produce the number is much decreased.