SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1016, 7 October 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

(BY TELEGRAPH.) FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS DUNEDIN, October 6. The Land Board yesterday passed a resolution with a view to submitting to Government for its approval their determination concerning Otago runs, and also to give the present lessees due notice, in the terms of the Act, without any delay. Two fresh oases of small-pox have been discovered in Sydney. A destructive fire occurred at Brisbane on Tuesday. The property destroyed was insured for .£B,OOO, £7OO being in New Zealand offices. At the Supremo Court, Auckland, yesterday, L. Hayes was found guilty of rape. Owing to prisoner swooning in Court, sentence was deferred. The Hon. Mr Dick will stand for Dunedin, and Mr Bathgate for Boslyn, at the coming elections. At Land Board yesterday, Marie’s application to purchase sections in 1 Leaning Bock district was read, and it ! was resolved—That notice of intention to grant be gazetted.

The now income tax imposed on the police amounts to over £9 a year per man. LONDON, October 5. Sir Stafford Northcote, speaking at Hull expressed the opinion that it was necessary for Government to take rigorous measures to prevent the League from doing anything to nullify the effect of Irish Land Act. Telegrams received from Tunis report that the Arabs made an attack and completely destroyed the Algerian Railway Station in Tunis, and are reported to have massacred all the officers at the station,