SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1014, 23 September 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

(BY TELEGRAPH.)

PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS

DUNEDIN, September 22. By tho amended schedule in the Representation Bill, the Dunstan district extends to and takes in all the country to tho north of the Tuapeka Elver ; it accordingly goes to within a few miles of Lawrence.

At Auckland yesterday a little girl named Hill was burnt to death through her clothes catching fire whilst p’aying near where ferns were being burnt off. The detached squadron has arrived at Levuka.

Supplementary estimates include £IO,OOO for tho abatement of the rabbit nuisance ; also £3,000 to ass'st prospecting by tho purchase of diamond drills.

At the Land Board yesterday, the application of Mr W. Butler to purchase land at tho Shotover at LlO per acre was approved .

Jackson Keddell, Esq., has been appointed appraiser, under the Land Act, for Queenstown. Tho application of Robert Gihnuur for an agricultural lease at the Shotover was approved Mr O’Reilly, solicitor, Ashburton, has been committed for trial at Christchurch for libel on Mr Joseph Ivess, of Ashburton.

The L 50,000 blood money to Otago has been remitted. In the House, the Treasurer stated that one local body had paid L2OO of it, and because others had not it had demanded its repayment. The reported case of small-pox in Victoria turns out to be chicken-pox. Another suspicious case has occurred to-day at Benalla, in the north-east of Victoria. Richard Renall died in the bush near Wellington from the effects of a gun-shot wound. The body was tound a quarter of a mile from a whare. He was subject to fits.

There are no signs of any outbreak occurring among the Natives of New Plymouth.

The Appropriation Bill has been read three times in the Assembly, and passed. It provides for paying to borough councils 7s (id in the £ for every £ of rates ; to each road board 10s in the £ for every £ of rates; to each county council 10s in the £ for every £ of rates.

President Garfield died calmly at 10'50 p.m. on Sept 19 ;at I 0'25 he was sleeping quietly, when he awoke with a pain in his heart, and in 15 minutes he had breathed his last. Mrs Garfield was present at the death-bed. The Cabinet have summoned General Chester Arthur, Vice-President, to fill the Presidency for the unexpired term, nearly three years and six months. The oath of office has been administered to Gen. Arthur at the capital.

The Queen has telegraphed her sympathies to Mrs Garfield.

Cholera has broken out at Aden, and is raging with severity, several deaths having occurred. Every precaution is being taken to prevent the epidemic spreading The marriage of the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway with the Princess of Baden was celebrated to-dav.

Tho trophioal heat has caused disastrous fires to break out in the forests in the State of Michigan. Villages have been surrounded and destroyed. Hundreds of lives- including men, women, and children—have been miserably lost, and the families who are homeless are counted by thousands.