SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1128, 14 December 1883, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OOR OWN CORRESPONDENT) Dunedin, December 13, 7.45 pm The Land Board yesterday resolved that the hearing of oases of Borthwiok and Hertdet take place on 4th of January. The Tongariro duly arrived in Port yes. terday. Her ra»id trip is much spoken of. Adamant and Wildboy scratched for all en agements at Auckland, The Triumph (which was wrecked on entering Auckland Harbour) and her contents were sold to day. Tin. coal, and balance of cargo, fetched LI 30. The Haslam refrigerator, L 320, The hull and machinery, 12,100. In a quarrell last night at. Carterton a man named Amlerson stabbed a woman in the neck; the wound is not serious. Hugh Flannagan, a patient'in the Christchurch Hospital, who cut his throat, has died.

The Otago Rifle Associatioh meeting opened to-day. The weather was fine in the morning, but showery in the afternoon. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held to day, at which the' Hon. Mr Mitchelson was present. Various matters were discussed, and the usual satisfactory replies given. The Government has decided to send a steamer in search of the missing men who disappeared at Campbell Island. The Christchurch people are disgusted at the dilatorines? of .Government,' and have resolved to charter a steamer at once to proceed there. Six bundled and thirty pounds was guaranteed at a meeting. At a meeting of the unemployed yesterday at Christchurch, it was resolved that it is the bounden duty of Government to stop free and assisted immigration, the money to make work for the masses. LIOO.OOO has been collected up to date for Property Tax. Farmers on the West Coast complain of the late boisterous weather, and say if it continues it will be useless to cut a large portion of the crops. Cromwell. December 13, 7 p.m. , G. W: Goodger left his home this mottling early with only shirt and trousers on, and has not been seen since. Every effort has been made to find him, but without avail. He has been ill lately and depressed in spirits. The man Thompson who was arrested 'on suspicion of causing the death of his mate Scott, with whom he had a fight at Gibbstown, has been discharged, the juryf, at the inquest, returning a verdict died from natural causes.