SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1022, 18 November 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

.(BY TELEGRAPH.) FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS DONEDIN, Thursday. Mr J. McLean, ot Waikonaiti, declines + ns'and again for that district, owing tu ill hea'tli ■ . The annual meeting of the Natimal In surause Company was hell ystcrday' when the report recommending dividend at rate of 2 i per cent per annum was a lopted. l)r Burrow's condition since liis accid?rit Las continued to improve A Native was drowned at Ohinemulu on Monday nigh l -.. He went into a hot bath at Lake Rotorna, fell asleep, and was found drowned the following morning. A Maori woman was t'omv! drowned in a hot hath near the Post Office under similar circumstances. Active preparations are ahout to he taken by tliß'Prope-ty Tax Department against all who have neglected to reply to circulars recently issued, ri-qairing returns under the Act of last session. Tb.eß.nff township was flooded on Tuesday night by an extraordinarily heavy rain ; the water is three feet de pin some places. One Melbourne bookmaker admit* having won £'2o 000 over the recent races there. Madame Lottie Wilmot was to-day lined Ls;md c«!s for assaulting the hail keeper of the Town Hall. Telegram from Naseby says the continuance of the drought is becoming serious. At the Education Board meeting yesterday, teudeis were accepted for a school deuce and school, iiawea Fiat, for L 570 both to Philpotand Matheson Arrests continue to beenuute of Natives at Parihaka, but otherwise there is nothing startling Mr Nugent Wood [.ets an addition of L'Jl/n a year by transference to Lawrence

Twenty-one thousand persons went .by train to Fleming‘oll an Cup day

The trial of Gaiteau, the murderer of President Garfield, has commenced Priaimer’s behaviour is most eccentric, audit is believed he is feigning insanity.