Telegraphic.
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS (BY TELEGRAPH.) FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS DUNEDIN, Thubsdav. The telegraph offices will be kept open till late hour on Deer 9, ami Returning officers have been instructed to forward direct to Press results of polling in each electorate. The Premier will visit Dunedin on Saturday or Monday next. Owing to the want of rain in Oaraaru district, the crops are reported as parched up. Dr Borrows’ funeral today was attended by a large number of persons Fredk Plummer, the notorious burglar, was arrested yesterday at Auckland under the Vagrant Act. He is suspected of being connected , with recent burglaries there. Histhouse was vigorously searched, but no- 5 traces were found of stolen property;'* A meeting at Naseby on Monday, condemned by a resolution the proproposal to deprive the district ot the services of a Warden. The Few Zealand horses Sir Modred, Somnus, Hilarious, Idalium were shipped hack to Few Zealand on Tuesday. The two former are now property of Mr Craig, who is also a passenger by her. Manindale won the Wagga Gold Cup, yesterday ; Secuudus and Rainbow next.
Affairs at Parihaka are very quiet. Hirold’s trial was continued yesterday, nothing fresh being brought out. The case was adjourned till Monday next
At the Land Board yesterday a mineral lease was granted to C. T. Marie, Leaning Bock district. The Under-Secretary Crown Lands wrote, stating that a petition from settlers in Crown Terrace, Arrow,, regarding reduction in price of deferredpayment sections, could not be complied with. A n official, iu the Land office, Sydney, has been arrested, and charged with defalcations.
A man named George Drysdale was killed by falling off the Huruuui coach.
An alliance has been arranged between Princa Leopold and Princess Helen, daughter of Prince George Victor of Waldeck, a German principality. The cholera in Mecca has greatly decreased, and the epidemic is gradually disappearing. The wool sales opened today with good attendance of Home and Foreign buyers, 4,000 hales, f>r which there was animated bidding prices for scoured and crosibrcd wools ruled Id to IJd higher than at the close of last sales.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1023, 25 November 1881, Page 3
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