TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 810, 26 October 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

o—(FROM OUR CoURFSPOVDEVT.) Dunedin, October 25. Llino has been collected here for the Indian Famine Fund ; L 2400 in Chr sfeburch- y There was a great fete here yesterday in aid of the Fund, which was attended byover 6000 peonle, and realising 1,500. Leary has resigned the Mayoralty, liecause ths Council declines to support him in giving instructions to officers without the intervention < f Committees. In the Upper House upon motion a clause has been introduced into the Educa'ton Bill, enabling Ministers of religion giving religious i S'me l ion before or after School hours, by leave of the Schoo' C minit'oe. Sperry has obtained nine months leave of absence yesterday, he proceeds to the old ■ country. Wil'is has been appointed Go’d Receiver at Naseby in the place of Fwld, deceased. The High School Commission has closed. Anlrew Murray, vho last week made three attempts to drown himself at Tnapeka, ha? died from tbeeffects of the immersions The Times says one of the immediate effects on the accession tooffir-e of the present Ministry, was the intercepting of very extensive order for Railway material already mailed to England, notwithstanding the resolution of the House on the motion. Both sides seem to ' he worked up to a most determined pitch, and to be resolved to resort to any means to secure a victory. Travers, Curtis, Sharp, Johnson and Rolleston will vote with Atkinson--Mac-farlane and Gisborne, not, so sure, and one I or two others are marked off as certain on each side. The division will be a very close | one un'ess things alter very much -from \ what they are new, and it is becoming evident that neither side has a strong hi'ij tp ty. If the present' Government go on',' their successors would almost certainly fall- | before a similar motion th“- Week after. I Outside the House it is generally thought that Atkinson made it false move by bifng- , mg down his motion before the Governj ment had a chance of making their fiianci- | al Statement, and the present motion is thought to be on purely personal grounds, and not quite fair. Each side is quite determined not to grant a sufficiency of Sup. plies, and convic'ion is becoming almost universal, that the Session must 'end'" in a dissolution whichever side happens to be iu office. The Star says one of the Ministers last year receive ! LSOH for travelling ext enses, besides the co-t of Ministerial residence, and that the late Government received over L2SCO beyond salaries. Soon after the meeting of the Ho”se yesterday afternoon Atkinson gave notice of his intention to move—“ That (his louse has no confidence iu (he Government," the House theiefore adjourned till Friday evening. THE MELBOURNE CUP. Special to the Star The following is the list of horses which had not pai I up f >r the Melbourne Cup on the 17th instant, by which date final payments had to be made : —Barb, Dilke. S ar, Toea', Defiance. Boob, , Kills rney, Jupiter, First King, Neckers at, ! King Winter, Don Silva, Don Alphonso,Rangatira, Venus. Deacon, Fernbill, Cap-a-pie Black Eagle, Dean, Evenlight, Moira, Tin Whistler, Orator, Pluto, Lorton, Sefton, Perth, Chaos. Terrick, Fitzroy, Pardon. B. Sharp and Ceyx, Hawkesbnry...The final

acceptances number forty-five.