DUNEDIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3555, 30 November 1882, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

November 30

A trotting match for £100 a side, between the horses Zulu and Ace of Clubs, comes off on the Forbury course on Saturday.

The Sorento has now almost completed her loading, and will leave for England on the 6th of December. The shipment of frozen meat prepared for her by the New Zealand Refrigerating Company consists of 7266 carcasee, but 1428 of these have been unavoidably shut out, and will be shipped instead by the ship Dunedin, which leaves in about three weeks' time. The principal contributors to this total number are Mr J. Reid, Oamaru, 1013 carcases; Messrs Smith aad Son, Tuapeka. 1003 ; Messrs Murray, Roberts, and Co., Strath-Taieri, 971 ; W. J. Doughs, Waimate, 766; New Zealand and Australian Land Company, Clutha, 708; >Mr Studholme, Waimate, 487 ; Mr R. Menlove, Oamaru, 472. The total weight of the shipment is a little over 237 tons, or an average of 731b per sheep. The chamber for butter is also expected to be well filled before the departure of the vessel.

Mr J. Shand's Hendon estate, comprising 8000 acres, has been sold by auction to Messrs Boyd Bros, for forty shillings per acre. A fire broke out yesterday in Staffordstreet in an old building formerly Cobb and Co.'s stables, but now Mr Cottle's produce depot. It spread to the bottling store of Hargan and Co., which business was recently taken over by Esther and Low, who state that there was £4000 worth of stock on the premises, of which a considerable quantity was damaged. The buildings belonged to the Hon. W. H. Reynolds. The insurances were on Hargan's stock, in the South British, £1000 (of which £250 was reinsured with the Fire Insurance Association and £200 with the Phoenix) ; Scottish Imperial, £400. On Cottle'a stock, Union, £420. On the building, United, £350 ; London and Lancashire, £150 ; Norwich, £100. The total insurances therefore are £2420. The fire is believed to have been purely accidental.

The mayoral election has resulted as follows:—Thomson, 927; Boss, 40/5. Considerable interest was taken in the election.

Thejbush fire at Waikaia in the interior is said to be still raging. One homestead has been burnt. A heavy bush fire is also reported from the head of Wakatipu Lake, in which neighborhood intense heat prevails, and the wheat crop is said to be despaired of.