DUNEDIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3552, 27 November 1882, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

November 27.

Amulet has been scratched for all his engagements at the Dunedin spriug meeting. The Vincent County Council chairmanship has been temporarily settled by a toss up of the hat, Mr McGinnis remaining in possession for three months. The inquest held at Port Chalmers on Saturday revealed some extraordinary circumstances attending the death of a Mrs Anderson, a married woman at Deborah Bay. On Sunday night, the 19th instant, she was walking round the bay with a young girl, when a Chilian native (co the girl declares) came up to them, and without a word struck Mrs Anderson with a piece of firewood, knocking her down. The medical evidence seems to discredit the statement that the woman was struck as described. But, at any rate, she fell in the road, and lay there till next morning, when a neighbor took her home in his cart. A peculiar feature is that her husband, among others, knew her condition, and allowed her to remain out all night. Whether she was drunk or not on this occasion is not very clear, but she was in the habit of drinking. The jury found that death occurred from appoplexy, accelarated by intoxication and exposure, and no notice was taken of the statement about the assault by the Chilian. A boy named McLellan has had bis hand seriously injured by the explosion of a percussion cap with which he was playing.

An inquest was held on Saturday on John Gordon, who committed suicide in the lock-up on Friday. On being brought in he told the police that drink had brought him into trouble. The verdict was that deceased committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity, and that the usual search in such cases was made.

At a meeting of the Education Institute held on Saturday the secretary reported that proposals for the foundation of a New Zealand Institute had been favorably received, and that Auckland, Wellington, Kelson, Canterbury, and Southland had nominated representatives to attend a conference to be held in Christehureh during the Christmas vacation. Four delegates were appointed from Dunedin.