SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1013, 16 September 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

(BY TELEGRAPH.)

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. DUNEDIN, September 15. Wellington telegrams show shat the Railway Constructions Bill is in great jeopardy in tho Council. It was opposed on ground that it would cause jobbery and corruption. It was, however, read a second time last night.

At the Land Board, yesterday, deferredpayment licenses were granted to James Whyte, of Tiger Hill, and John Grant of Dart River.,

The inward Suez mail hag arrived at King George’s Souud. Robert Wingate, a miner, was killed at the Thames by falling down the shaft of the Queen of Beauty mine. The Wanganui Jockey Club have endorsed the disqualification of Mata, and the jockey Ray. _ The Lyttelton Harbor Board have decided on ordering an electric lighting apparatus for lighting the harbor. There is a probability of an Industrial Exhibition being held in Christchurch shortly. At a meeting of the Christchurch Farmers’ Co-operative Association, it was stated that a local firm of importers had made £20,000 in one season from reapers and binders.

The Wild Deer, ship, has arrived off th* coast from Glasgow. _ Tho Education Board will this year offer eight junior and eight senior scholarships.

Mr Oliver has interviewed the Premier respecting the Otago Central Railway, and has received a promise not to let the work die out, but keep it going. In the present state of public works, there is no chance of getting the House to vote a largo sum for the purpose, but if the woi k is kept going even slowly, it will bo bettor than interference by a company. Mr Moorhouse died to-day at B'3o a.m. The House met at 11, aud the Premier referred to the occurrence in feeling terms. Messrs Grey and Maoandrew also spoke of the loss to the colony occasioned thereby, and out of respect to deceased, the House adjourned till the evening. The Gold Duty 'Abolition Bill has been real a second time in the Council.

The est’inates for education this year aro £270,000.

On the second division on the Railways Construction Bill in the Upper House, 15 voted for and 19 against it.

Mr Michael Fleming, “The Pink of Fashion,” is reported to havebecome entitled to a fortune of £30,000 by the death of an uncle in Montreal

LONDON, Sept. 13. Baron Bramwell has resigned his seat on the Bench of the Court of Exchequer. The Arab insurgents have made an attack to-day upon the French position at Tajhouan, about 50 miles south of Tunis, in great force, completely surrounding the camp. Desperate fighting ensued and continued for several hours with heavy loss on both sides. The Arabs have broken down the aqueduct which supplies the city of Tunis with water.

A Commission will be appointed by the Porte to enquire into the recent military outbreak in Egypt.

At the wool sales, the demand now is chiefly for medium and fine qualities. Inferior and faulty are dull. Communications which have lately passed between the English and French Governments re commercial relations, have now resulted in an agreement that negotiations for a renewal of an Anglo-French treaty shall be resumed at Paris on 19th inst

Five thousand Turkish troops have arrived in Tripoli, and occupied various military positions in that country Destructive forest fires continue to rage in Ontario In addition to quantities of farming stock, over 1,000,000d01s worth of timber has been destroyed