SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 977, 7 January 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(PROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Dunedin, January Gtu. At the Supreme Court yesterday John Ghristie was acquitted on tlie charge of hoi so stealing at Nasthy. The wool exhibits at the Melbourne Exhibition were opened yesterday. They wro scarcely sufficiently representative, b I tig only a few from Nov Zealand. The qualities are unsurpassed, an I the experts are finding it difficult to say which is best. Ten new Good Templar Lodges were opened in New Zeala'rid last yciitt The late rain in the southern portions of Otago havo been very beneficial to the crops, and plenty of sunshine is now only Wanted to ensure a good llai vest. Edwards, the pedestrian, commences his Walking of 180 miles in 43 hours to flight. C tie’s circus was attended by over 7000 persons at Invercargill on Tuesday last. At the Land Board yesterday, gollJnining leases were granted to W. Greenbank and Others, Aild the Mountain-race Gold-mining Company, Lauder. At the third day of the Caledonian gathering the weather was beautiful - Blackburn won the first prize ami the Championship for Wrestling, Hit Is m was second ; the other events were unimportant. The ship Auckland, from Loudon, has arrived. A dividend of one shilling per twelve hundredth 'hare has been declared in the Gladstone Company, Mace’oivn. M’Leotl, at the Supreme Court to-day wvs acquitted on the charge of shooting a cow, the property of Mr James M‘Arthur, farmer, Wai Keri K-ri Valley.