SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 998, 3 June 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(FROM our special correspondent.) London, May 30. Arrests of suspected persons and prominent agitators continue to be made daily in Ireland. The latest is Mr Kettle, one of the principal members of the Land League. A settlement of the British and American fisheries dispute has been arrived at. In accordance with terras of agreement, England will pay L 15.000 compensation. News has been received that a correspondent of a French journal, who was with tbe French army in Tunis, has been murdered, but the assassin has not been arrested. The latest news of the London wool sales says that a good demand wca experienced for various lots. Up to the preseut time 1,500 amendments to clauses in the Irish Land Bill have been entered on the Order Paper.

Dunedin, June 2. The Agent won the Waimate Steeplechase Handicap yesterday, Sailor Boy won the County Handicap Cup ; Chandler the Consolation. 1 <■ ~i The decision re-the Tararua enquiry will be given to morrow, Messrs James and Morris were re-elected auditors for the City of Dunedin. A cabman named Martin Brennan was found drowned in the Water of Leith yesterday. 'fhere seems no doubt of his having committed suicide. Family disputes and drink are said to be the reasons for the act. At a meeting of gentlemen interested in meat freezing yesterday, a report was read from Mr Burt, of A. and T. Burt, of his enquiries on the subject during his visit to Australia. The report was highly favorable to the scheme. It was resolved that a company be formed, to he called the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, of 20,000 shares, in 4,000 shares of £5 each. A telegram from Invercargill stated that the Waimea Co’s trains bad ceased running between Elbow and Kingston. The company’s secretary informs the daily papers that the report is not correct, and that the trains will run as usual.

At the Land Board the »pplicatinn of J. E. Haines for a deferred-payment section at Earnsohugh was deelii el. The detached squadron is due at Auckland on Juno 20.

There is alarm in Auckland consequent on a talk of leprosy having been imported by the Chinese, and many do not now purchase from Chinese hawkers.

At a meeting yesterday at Invercargill the question of a Frozen Meat Company was discussed, when it was decided to form a company. At Kirwell, near Christchurch, yesterday a woman named Fuller gave bhth to triplets, still-ho r n. A passenger named Miss Amy Cochrane was lost overboard from the s.s. Makatu on Tuesday night, whilst traa'elling from Wanganui to Wellington. She was not missed till the morning. Her body was found in the Wanganui River.

The delegates from the County Councils met yesterday at Wellington. The business was purely formal,-and, .they adjourned till Friday. nr ,. A large fire broke out at Tanranga yesterday, destroying 30 houses, and property to the value of £30,001),

Commodore Wilson, of the Australian station, has been raised to the rank of reara Imiral.

Mr H. J. Walter was to-day presented with a solid silver tea and coffee service, weighing 85ozs by a number of gentlemen, in recognition of services rendered to the citizens during his last year of office. The opening of the Industrial exhibition is postponed till the 14th. The application for exhibits are two and-a-halt times greater than space available and the agricultural machinery will be shown in grounds adjoining. Mr Grant’s Prince won the North Otago Coursing Clubs Derby Stakes, beating Sir Hercules. The English Derby was won by Iroquis, Peregrine second, and Town Moor third. The winner is an American horse.

The latest from California is a most remarkable discovery on the part of a Mr S. H. Kennedy, that sheep may be protected from scab by “ vaccination.”