SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1140, 7 March 1884, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). Dunedin, March, 6, 7.45 pm. There were 600 entries for the Oamaru ram and ewe fair which opened to-day. A Chinaman with leprosy has been taken into Lawrence hoapital.faom Waipori. It is reported that Mr Stout will stand for Waikouaiti district at next general election A daughter of Mr G. McDonald, of Manugitua, was soalned to death through falling into a bath of scalding during tern-' porary absence of the mother. A little girl named Smith, at Ponsonby, Auckland, was,(strangled whilst playing in a swing by rope getting round her neck. Joseph Mackay has been committed for trial on other charges of embezzling. Civil Ser vice retrenchment has begun, it being decided to abolish Government Architects Department, and seven out of eight in office have been given three months notice. The Lands; Survey, and Goldfields Departments are again to be amalgamated, Tbe Native Department will become a branch of Colonial Secretary’s Office. A fanner named William Farquhar, residing at Amberley, was gore I to death yts'erdny by a two year-old bull. He was fr _htfully mangled when found, and no one saw the occurrence. A frig'll • fnl case of death from drin ng has occurred at Wanganui A man »nd is wife, named Brown, have been in the habit <f 'oinking five gallons of beer every other •day, and yesterday the man ws found dead in nix house, and the place in a fid by conciti m, the woman b.-ing helplessly drunk. ’> essrs Shan' 1 , Macjregor, and B'ggare the three members elected to Education Board. A tollbar keeper near Wellington bad a narrow escape on Tuesday. He was standing watching a passing train, but was not clear of the line, when the cowcatcher caugh him, smashing his thigh, and others wise injuring him. Consul won the Wanganui Derby to-day ; The Poet won the Wanganui Cup, Administrator and Normanby next. The Flower Show to-day was largely attended. The show exceeded in quality of previous years. & Correspondence has been going on between Mr Shrimski and the Government re dummyism cases, and Government has replied that having considered the Silver Peak cases, does not see that it has any power to interfere. At the Land Board yesterday ia the matter of the inquiry into the purchase of Pastoi al deferred payment lands at Strath Taieri, the Chief Commissioner inti mated to the Board that be bad been served with notices of appeal against the Roards’s decision in the following cases ;—Messrs J. Johnston, J Pearsall, C. Webb, P. Young, W. Young, J McCaw, D. McEwen, Fisker, and W. Free.