SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1180, 10 October 1884, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OUK OWN COE I! K'PON'DEST ] Duneiux. Go ober 9h, 1884. At the Lninl Ron d yesterday, the foliowlug resold'ion was idopod i". Mi' N'ayloi’s appl cation at Linder:— “ That tho sections hiving been previously offered ny auction without finding purchasers, and the Boa;-i being of opinion ih it the sociious will not sell as defected payment land, re a commend that the proclamation setting aside tire land b" revoked in order that the sections mav be for cash at L 3 per acre ” St. Gatien won the Czarewitch Stakes.

The steamer Mad jus, 246 tons, hound from Sunderland to this port, foundered at sea off Port Mucqnarrie, on the New South Wales coast All on board, however, were saved.

There were 1350 tenders for the New Smith Wales loan, amounting to ■ 13, -00.000. Tenders at L 93 12s. will obtain 55 per ceu : , and those ab -ve that amount will receive in full. A Syndi aie offered at 193 12s, and they will pro! ably receive 30 per cent.. The official nve. rage about 1.93 13 s Gd; the maximum pi ieo tendered was L 9 s.

'lhcre likely to be a lively contest for the Mayor’s seat this year, three candidates arealreadyannounced. foterdiiv morning about 10 o’clock a sharp shock of earthquake was felt in Can or u v.

Tim ship Karl of Wcaups, during a. passage fio'ii Leviika to Bui, struck on a sunken reef, tho <-x ; stence of of which was hitherto unknown. She reached Banin a leaky condition. A Fiji ])l,uiter, named Rankin Wilson, has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter of a Bohn sian laborer in his empoy. Tin laborer died in a (is soon alter having received a slap in the e.u • from Wilson.

Mr Bradshaw, M. If. R., was to ask tho Government to day if they will in tmdnce a Bill to ama gnmato the four 1 city electorates of Bnuodin, so as td4 make them one (doctorate.

Cor tear to expectations, Mr Fitzherbert’s Gamin : and Lotteries Act Amendment Mill met with a sudden and ignominims fare in the Ifonsn yesterday Tlie motion to go into committee on it being put to a dwisine, was lost in tho briefest possible time, thus killing tho Bill. Mr Fulton took the lea 1 m quashing the measure, and denounced it heartily lo ia generally regret tea hero that it did not become law, as i s provhi ms were somewhat harmless, mere y p vmi ting sma 1 sweeps on race com - es to the tu ie of 1.2.

bir George Grey’s motion to abolish I os L age of newspapers was lost.