SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1029, 6 January 1882, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

[BY TELEGRAPH. 1 FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. DUNEDIN, Thcrsday. A meeting of the creditors of Coombs and Son, tanners, was held yesterday. The liabilities were stated to bo L48.U00, and assets L26,oim. The total Customs revenue collected in the Colony for the nine months ended December, amounted to over a million, or 1.66,000 over the estimate. Patrick O’Shannassy. a hotelkeeper and a man named Kellnr, were yesterday committed'for trial at Ashburton for brutal assault on a man named Charley, ani afterwards robbing him A tremendous conflagration occurred at Invercargill last night, resulting in the destruction of a large amount ot property The lire broke out at 10, and tbo town is still burning Twelve shops have been destroyed The cricket match between the Englishmen and the Combined Australians has resulted in a draw The second innings of the English totalled 308 The Australians lost three wickets for 127 runs The Colonials thus had 156 runs to get to win The English have left for New Zealand The Caledonian sports ended yesterday They were the most successful ever hold in Otago The Mount Aurora Co, Shotover, have seat down a cake of gold weighing 3760z5, from 376 tons of stone taken from the N. lode in Plm. u'x Claim R. D. Pine was today summoned under the Gaming and Lotteries Bill,and the case adjourned James Samson, auctioneer, was lined 5s for auctioneering a t a 0 at night Later telegrams from Invercargill state the loss by tire to be LLs,o(lfl, about half of which is insured

An unsuccessful att»mpt was made last night to tire the ship Oasis, lying at Mel bourne A quantity of shavings saturated with kerosene was found on lire, hut was extinguished before much damage was done The ship’* carpenter is implicated The cargo of frozen meat by the Europa has realised from od to Gil per lb in London Seven lady Land Leaguers were yesterday arrested in Ireland for seditious conduct

The death of W II Ainsworth, novelist, is announced

All the smallpox patients in Sydney are now progressing favorably to vards recovery .

At the Land Board yesterday a lease wag granted to Edward M ‘Galley, of MidWakatipu ; also agricultural lca<e granted to Jane Mciklejo'in, of Mid-Wakatipu. The application of John M'Crae to purchase sections at Ta r ras was recommended for the approval of ( o eminent. A ling letter from Govern i e it on the subject of letting the Otago Kins was read at the Board's meeting yesterd ly, and a discussion ensued thereon, but it was ultimately decided to hold a special meeting on Tuesday morning to considci i .

The trial of Guiteau continues, the defence now being proceeded with. A serious disaster occurred at Shausvillo, a small town in Ohio. The floor of a room in which a large number of persons were congregated gave way, and all were precipitated below ’twelve persons killed instantaneously, and fully 100 more seriously injured A meeting of landlords was held in Dublin, to consider the working of tho Irish Land Act. Fully four thousand were present

Tho following paragraph is not without interest for settlers in this colony:— Tho London Economist says that while the advantages of Now Zealand arc, in point of climate and soil, incontestably superior to those of Canada, yet, as the former owes to land a debt involving an annual payment of Kldol 50c. per head, while Canada has to pay but 12dot. 70c. per head annually to England, tho verdict of tho London Stock Exchange in putting Canadian four per cents ten per cent, higher than New Zealand fours is sound.

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