SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Dunstan Times, Issue 999, 10 June 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

(FROM. ODB SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ) DUNEDIN, June 9tii. Yesterday there was au animated meeting of the Dunodiu Jockey Clul), to discuss the qucsiiou of the race-course The Cluh offered £I,OOO rout, but the Forhnry Park Co. wanted £1,500. Subsequently the Co. offered to take £1,200, which was eventually accepted, subject to a purchase clause, so that the question may almost bo looked upon as settled. At the meeting of the Refrigerating Co. yesterday 1,220 shares out of 4,000 wore applied for. The prospectus will bo circulated immediately.

It is decided to forma Frozen Meat Co at Invercargill, of 10,000 shares at £5 each

The Committee of the Industrial inhibition are receiving largo ha elu“ of exhihits, and the Exhibition gives promises of support from all the local musical talent have been received, and the opening ceremony, will, with line weather, bo very imposing. The cutter which had been missing for two months with two men on board, and which left Stewart Island on the return to the Bluff, was found in Broad Bay, Stewart’s Island. The men wore rescued, but had suffered considerable hardship.

The landlord uf the Great Western Hotel, Riverton, slipped and broke both of hislgs at Thorubury Junction last night, besides sustaining serious injuries, from which he has since died.

It is reported that Mr Weston’s return for Grey River is a certainty. A man named Mead last night attempted to cut his throat at Caversham, but he was frustrated by a policeman. Sailor Boy won the Oamaru Maiden Plato, Clarence the Handicap Steeplechase, with Chandler second.

Parliament was opened to-day by the Governor in person, in the presence of 18 members of the Council and 24 of the House of Representatives. Thu House adjourned till to-morrow. There was no sitting of the Land Board yesterday, owing to the bereavement in the family of the Chief Commissioner. Tire report prepared by Messrs Clark ami Green, with reference to tho runs recently inspected by them, is ready, and would have been presented yesterday, hut for tho postponement of the business. Duucan, alias Brown, has boon committed for trial at Christchurch on two charges of Incendiarism. Mr Benjamin Wells, editor of the “Taranaki News,” at New Plymouth, and much respected as a public man, died on Tuesday evening. John Davis was yesterday, at Auckland, committed ou a charge of violating Alice

Messenger, a girl aged 12. The man was 72 years of age. PARIS, June (sth. Telegrams from Algeria scato that a party of 25 engineers anil workman engaged in the construction of a telegraph lino have boon massacred by the Arabs. LONDON, June Gtii. At a meeting of the League held in Clare Miss Parnell counselled the people to adopt measures to completely ostracise the police in Ireland, News from Cork states that the roads and telegraphs have been destroyed, and a detachment of troops has been sent there, to prevent further outrages. The Govcrment have, within the past few days, been considering affairs in Ireland, and have decided that the authorities should maintain alirm attitude, and adopt stringent measures to suppress outbreaks. Later accounts to hand from Ireland continue to civo further evidence of an alarming state of the country. Numerous further arrests of prominent agitators have boon made, and stops are being taken to stop all | meetings of the Land League.,

The '■level' versatile pen of Mr Viucont Pyke is at work again this time in tlio columna of our Duue'lin contemporary, tlio “Saturday Advertiser,” where he liaa commeiiood to relate the “ Itecreatioua of a County Chairman,” To say that the story is told in a racy and eccentric manner is merely to say that it is narrated by Mr Pyko; but the first instalment of the “Uocreations ” abounds with so much common sense and keen insight into the weaknesses and foibles of human nature, that successive instalments will bo awaited with considerable interest.—“ Wanganui Herald.” | The Wellington correspondent of the “Lyttelton Times” says:—f have reason to believe that a Royal Commission will be appointed to investigate the management of Lunatic Asylums generally throughout the colony. If they will consent to act, it will consist in all probability of the gentlemen forming the late Commission on the Mount View Asylum, and in any case Mr Shaw, R.M., is almost certain to bo a member of it.

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