SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1117, 28 September 1883, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT Dunedin, September 27, 7.45 p.m. It was decided last night to fum an Amateur Athletic Association in Dunedin, eighty members have joined. Messrs Redmond and Walsh were at Kumara last night, and were the guests of Father Walsh. They go to Greymouth to-day. Hanlon, the Canadian oarsman, has notified his willingness to accept Laycock's challenge to row for the Cham pionship of the world. Messrs Dick and Oliver are expected in town to-night. Burns, who , was executed for the murder of Quinlin, confessed that he had murdered eight men during his life. Tenders have been accepted for the Swift Creek permanent way. The big dredge seems to be doing good work on the bar lately. She is snid to be now lifting 1400 tons of stuff daily. Melbourne won the hurdle race, at Geraldine to-day Trickster won the maiden plate. Tasman won Geraldine Racing Club Handicap; Hyacinth second ; Emir Bey third. There is likely to be a Police Court case for an assault winch is said to have been committed by one of the officers of the Salvation Army, It is reported that Mr Andrew Pollock, of Green Island, and many years a resident there, has Succeeded j a Baronetcy in the Old Country, worth nine thousand a year. Both houses of Queensland Parliament will meet early in .November.