DUNEDIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3550, 24 November 1882, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

November 24. Mr Larnach is definitely out for the Peninsular vacancy. A woman named Catherine Anderson died at Deborah Biy on Wednesday under suspicious circumstances. The Equitable Insurance Association have taken permanent premises in Dunedin. The delay in the allotment of shares has been owing to the articles of association requiring to be altered in accordance with the provisions of the Act passed last session. The allotment notices will be posted in the beginning of next week. The Agricultural Show, which concluded yesterday, was the most successful ever held here, fine weather for the first time favoring the association. There were large numbers of country people on the ground. The show of draught horses was not so good as in previous years, except in young stock. Le Loup took first prize in thoroughbreds. In the Police Court on Wednesday a child four years old was brought before the Bench as neglected. The police had found it positively drunk in Staffordstreet, the mother having given it liquor and turned it out. It was sent to the Industrial School.

The Benevolent Institution carnival, which will be open for ten days, was formally opened yesterday by the Mayor. At the session of the Worthy Grand Lodge of Australasia, 1.0CT., now being held here, it has been decided that the next session sball be held in Sydney, about February, 1885.