Telegraphic.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1050, 2 June 1882, Page 2

Telegraphic.

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

(From our own Correspondent,)

Dunkdix, Thursday.

£30,000 customs revenue were received at the Pon of Dunedin last month

Tito tender |for a new goods shed at Dunedin amounts to £II,OOO.

Mr Pyke has been successful in inducing Government to extend railway lino from Kelso to Swift Creek.

A sorions fire occurred at Too Woomba in Darling district, resulting in the destruction of several houses.

Population at the Woodstock rush con-

tinne to increase, and payable claims are opened daily. Hamlin, who was injured at Railway accident near Waihola last week, has since died,

A man named John Mortimer was struck by a crane in Christchurch, yesterday, by which ho had an arm an leg broken. There are 1400 waggons in use in Otago

of Railways. The Financial Statement will be delivered on Tuesday. The Eight Hours Bill passed its second reading yesterday. Kitto, for murdering his son-in-law at Miller’s, has been committed for trial. At the Land Board yesterday the application of Messrs Mallaghan and Bridge to purchase under agricultural lease section South Wakatipu was granted subject .to arrears of rent being paid. George Ludeman’s application for coal license at Kawarau was referred to Ranger; An .-address to Irish people, signed by Longmore, Duffy, O'Callaghan. Brophy, and Toohey, of the Victorian Assembly, is published in Melbourne, it represents Ire: land as Under the hoof of Foreign despotism, and urges that the country should receive complete freedom. Notice of motion has been given in As: aerribly calling attention to treasonable and seditious language employed during the ■debate. At the sale of Campbell’s estate, George street, Sydney, seven dbsps realised the sum of £95,000.

London, May 29. Turkish ironclads stationed in Bosphorus are now coaling.

It is believed to be intention of the Porte to despatch them at once to Alexandria. The panic amongst Europeans at Cairo, owing to the critical state of the country is daily increasing, and there has already been a considerable exodus from this and other towns to Alexandria.

Leaders of American Branches of Irish Land League are making urgent appeals to sympathisers for subscriptions. The funds of the League have shown a heavy decrease since Phoenix Park murders.