SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1213, 29 May 1885, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

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(Prom onr own Correspondent), Dunedin, May 28 7.46 p.m. At yesterday’s Land Board Mr McKenzie proposed that the Board hold inquiry as to whether the acquirements of Land Act have been evaded through the purchase by Mr A.O.Begg for Mr'Docherty in 1883 of the Benmoro rani The question raised wap whether Mr Dooharty was not really a dummy for the Hon. Robert Campbell, the latter having already his full complement of land. The matter was adjourned for a week and the Board’s Solicitor to be consulted as the ran was part of Otago University eadowment.

. A representative from New Zealand will go to Sydney for the purpose of welcoming the contingent on their return. The Greymouth Hospital Committee have resigned consequent on Government pot having answered a telegram asking for fnnds' to carry on tho institution, j A Wellington telegram to-day states that , at the Government Insurance meeting last night Sir Julius Vogel stated in was intended to do away with the Industrial Branch of the Institution, and another step that had been decided on was to increase the rates of premiums to new policy holders. The latter course had been adopted on the strong recommendation of their actuarial advisers. The death o* Mrs Auckland, late .of Clyde, is announced ih to-day’s papers. A daring jewellery robbery was perpa trated on Tuesday night, and jewellery to the value of nearly L2OOO was stolen. The Wellington police yesterday made a raid on tobacconists shop and seized a quantity of totalisator ma hinery, the proprietor is to be prosecuted under the Ginning and. Lotteries Aet. - Moody, Linwood,. and Barrington were first three for Grand National Steeplechase. At present, railway contracts to amount •of L 200.000 are in progress in Otago. London, May 26. The Guards were landed at Alexandria this morning, and the order which had been issued for a secnnn army corps to proceed to Benia has been annulled. "Lord Roseberry, who has been here (? Berlin) on a visit since Friday last, will shortly return to England. Daring his stay he has had repeated interviews with Prince Bicmark, the nature of which has not transpired.

His Majesty the Emperor of Germany •does not show any signs of improvement in health, the intestinal disorder from which he is suffering checking his progress towards recovery. Arrangements for the evacuation of the British headquarters at Dongola are now «omple‘ed, and the first detachment of ■troops left to-day. In consequence of the hostile attitude of the inhabitants of "Zanzibar towards Germany, the German corvette Stoich and two other war vessels has been ordered there. Merawi, a town 30 miles below the forth •cataract on the Nile has been evacuated by the British.

(Received May 28, at noon). The boundary of tha English protectorate in New Guinea which was agreed upon by England and Germany, has been cabled to the Australian Governments. The Admiralty will supply the Governments of New Zealand and New South Wales with ten torpedoes each of German manufacture immediately, and will also eupply Adelaide, Victoria, and Tasmania with Whitehead torpedoes.