TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 792, 22 June 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Dunedin, June 21. It is stated that Sir Dillon Bill will be called to the upper House at the meeting of Parliament. A Municipal Conference will be held at Wellington in the second week of the Session. The San Francisco mail was delivered to day. The ship Kookwood has arrived from London. Gore and Waipahe section of the Southern line was opened to day without any demonstration. A fire took place at Lyttelton in the export shed, supposed to be the act of an incendiary. Mr Macandrew’s motion to spend LIOOO annually on Scholarships was carried. It is reported that the Council have resolved to proceed with the erection of now buildings in the old Botanical Gardens, at a cost of L 17.000. The action— Sloman v. Government, in the matter of German emigration has been settled by the Colony paying L 3,500. At yesterday’s meeting of the Land Board, the Chief Commissioner stated day by day he learned from authentic sources, that the conditions of the Act, with regard to deferred payments was being set aside in all directions, people were adopting all sorts of dodges, in the shape of dummyism and so forth, to evade the Act, and it would require the greatest circumspection to prevent it. The Police at Port Chalmers have arrested a man named Thomas Strode for rape on a girl at Stewart’s Island.