SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1019, 28 October 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

(BY TELEGRAPH.) FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS DUNEDIN, Thursday. A boy named Martin fell into the riverat West Taieri and was drowned. H. Williams, for being eomieoted with the robbery of silver from t.he Stormbird at Wanganui, has been convicted. The half-yearly mee'ing of the Bank of New Zealand was held at .Auckland yester day. Net profits amounted to L73,00U. Ihe report was adopted, and provides for paying a dividend of 10, and a bonus of 5, per cent per annum, Mr Driver addressed the electors at Gore last night, and received a unanimous vote of confidence. At Land B ia?d yesterday, a gold-mining lease was granted to the Cromwell Co. for a lease at Wakefield.

Henry Maio man’s application to purchase 20 acres near Luggate Creek was granted, subject to runholder’s consent. Thorpe, teller of the l 'a"k of Victoria at Melbourne, was brorudit up and charged with embezzling L 2,500. It was stated in evidence that prisoner justified the robbery ami that th" manager took cash and substituted a cheque for it. The report that the French Government intend to establish a protectorate over the island of Earatonga is groundless. Capt Davidson (mayor of New Plymouth) has left with his corps of Mounted Rifles for the front. 40 volunteers leave Wanganui on .Saturday.

The Hinemoa, with the Wellington Naval Brigade, left fur Opunake on Tuesday. Fifty men of Tcmuka Artillery have offered their services. The Christchurch City Guards have been instructed to hold themselves in readiness to go to the front. Mr Bryce telegraphs that everything is quiet at the front. A warrant calling out f or active Service al volunteers in any district where corps have offered fir seivioe, has been signed by His Excellency.

A mud amountin'; lo 13,000 (says the Kivertoii “ Star”) has been passe I by Chinose fir the purpose of exlmurug bodies or hones of deceas°d Chinese in New Zealand, and conveying them to China. No fnr r.her in format on has been received in Meb ourne regarding the missi; g steamer Baleluth >. It is known that there were 22 souls on board. A Feia • sc ire has been caused in Freeniant e, Western Austral a, by the appear* ance of an armed b nit off the coast Wh n noticed they put to sea. The police are searching for the intruders. Mr Blanc, Secretary of State, Washington, has issued an official circular, in which he announces that the United States Government insist that they shall have complete political control of tiie Panama Canal, and adding that Government will deem any European intrusion unfriendly. The Anglo.Boer Convention was agreed to A resolution of Volksraad sets forth its reliance that British Government will adhere to the promise it has made to modify the Convention, if found necessary.

The announcement that Ayoub Khan has fled to Persia is confirmed.

A movement on the part of the landlords in Ireland is on foot to take combined action for their mutual protection against the working of the Land League. At a meeting of the Dublin Corporation, a proposal was submitted that the freedom of the city should he presented to Messrs Parnell and Dillon, who are now in custody. The proposal was rejected by a substantial majority.

The British India Steam Navigation Company’s steamship Almora, from Batavia has been quarantined at Cooktown for typhoid fev,r, of which there are three c'ses on board.