SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1201, 6 March 1885, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Prom our own Correspondent). Dupedin, March 5. 7.35 p.m. At the Land Board yesterday the appli•cation ot J. C. Chappie for right to graze •cattle at Tiger Milll was referred to the Vincent County Council to ascertain if there was any objection. . J., Dolt’s application for mineral lease ■OTtr "leetibrn Leaning Rock {strict was granted for twenty years at five shillings per acre, subject to access being given for , water raCeon the .land. The application of W. Brown to obtain deferred payment license, Leaning Rock •district, in place of agricultural lease, was approved. At the Education Board meeting yesterdaw Messrs Praer, Fraser, and Dr Brown, were duly elected members. The Dunedin Licensing Committee met ■yesterday, and declined to extend the hoars granted at last annual meeting in June. It is calculated that the New South Wales Contingent for Soudan will cost about LIOO.OOO per annum Murdock’s sawmill at Woodend, Inver cargill, was burnt down yesterday morning. Sir Julius Vogel will no doubt visit Dunedin shortly, after going to Christchurch, and will probably address a meeting. The fraudulent Bankrupt, Patrick Ryan, ■of Timaru, has been committed for trial for burglary. . Three sudden deaths, all from heart disease, occurred in Dunedin on Tuesday and V\ erlnesday. The Herald’s Wellington correspondent •wires There is no political news stirring. Ministers are holding long cabinet meetings, but mostly of a routine character.

The Frozen Meat Conference is sitting in Christchurch. . Fusilier won thVfWanganui Derby today. Reductions are being made in the Survey Dep' rlmept of the Co ony. Thirty five •officers in various.parts have received notice to dispense with their services. This will save the Colony about Llß,ono a year. CABLE NEWS. London, March 3. In the House of Lords to-day E irl Granville stated that the Government had received' information That the Russians in Central Asia have occupied Zulfika, a pass of the Hindukoosh Mountains, and advanced w’thin a few miles of Punjeh, in Afghanistan, and that Sir Peter Lunsden. the British Commission on the Frontier Question,had advised the Affghans to resist any further advance on the part of the Russians. His Lordship added that the Government have urged the Russian Government to order its commanders to halt and make no further encroachments bn Affghan territory.

England haa warned Russia that she will resist the absorption of Affghan territory. In the Hou»e of Lords to-day the Duke Cambridge made a statement to the effect that the acceptance by the Imperial Go vernraent of all the Colonial offers of troops for the Soudan would be absolute in case the services of the mm were found to be requited. The military authorities, he added, were now only discussing the necessary details, and it was unlikely that there would be any great delay in deciding definitely as to the acceptance of the Colonial offers.

Intelligence has been received that Lord Woleeley had recalled to Korti the British column under Colonel Brackenbury, which was advancing on Berber.

The town of Kasala has fallen, and 600 of the garrison have been killed. The Agents-general have had a conference with the Marquis of Hartington in regard to Colonial tioops for the Sondan. The Duke of Cambridge and Lord Derby were present, and the question of transport, discipline; and efficiency were The Agents genera l stated that tke Colonies would be glad to renew the offers made in lie autumn. 1 1