SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Dunstan Times, Issue 995, 13 May 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

(FROM OPR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT )

Dunedin, May 12. A meeting of persons interested in a proposed frozen meat company was held yesterday, to receive report from Wales, who had visited Sydney in connection with the subject. His report was adopted, and ordered to be printed and circulated. A committee was appointed to carry this out, and to make their report in a fortnight. At Land Board yesterday a lease was ordered to be issued to Watson and Buchan for copper mining at Moke CreA, Wakatipu. Mr Ballance addressed his constituents last night, and received a vote of confidence The purser of the Tararua has been recovered, and several bodies washed ashore, but unrecognisable, unless from anything they might have on their persons Complaints of want of shelter are made by the dozen constables at the wreck. Bodiei can he seen embedded in the kelp, hut cannot be recovered with the appliances to hand. At the wreck inquiry yesterdey John Williams was examined, and Maloney, the second mate, occupied the time of the Court till its rising. Nothing new was elicited. It is proved that not one of the factories in Auckland have complied with the provisions of the “ Employment of Females’ Act.”

A miner named Herichson was killed by a stone falling on his head at Wamangoroa, West Coast.

Measles is very prevalent in Dunedin, and some schools are temporarily closed in consequence. The ‘‘ Melbourne Argus ” received a telegram of 3,000 words, re Tararua, which probably cost Ll5O. There were two alarms of fire to-day, one was in Union Chambers. The other was at Pelichet Bay, where a house was burnt. A destructive whirlwind swept over Greymouth this morning, doing a lot of damage. The damage is estimated at £4,000.

The population of Tasmania |is 116,000. London, May 10. The May-June series of wool sales commenced to-day. There was a good attendance of foreign buyers. The opening catalogue comprised 5,200 bales. Bidding was animated, but crossbreds ruled Jd to Id lower than closing rates of last sales. Merino wools are equal to tho lowest of last series.