The Dunstan Times.
CLYDE, FRIDAY, OCT, 9, 1885. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
Beneata the rule of men entirely The pen is mightier that the sword.
[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
(From.onr Correspondents).
, Dunedin, October 8, 7.31) p.m. At too Land Beard meeting yesier day Mr Pyke and orht-rs wailed on the Board asking t'-at perpetual lease rent in Lauder district bo reduced. The Board decided that they could not agree to the req-est. 10-duy the Board met, when a letter from Mr Macandrew was read respecting homestead clauses of l and Act, but consideration was deferred for a week.
The’\olunteer Parade before Sir G. Whitmore yesterday was very sue cessful. Nearly a thousand volunteers wete on the ground from Dunedin and suburbs.
The Horse Parade was very good, and the weather fine.
The inquest ou the body of Mis Butler closed last night, when the jury found a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons un» known.
The new San Francisco mail con tract may he said to he completed, the Union Company and the Oceanic Company will conduct it between them.
Newstead is scratched for the Melbourne Derby and Cup; and Manchester and D mbra for the (Jup. A cable from Melbourne to-day says that Mr Robinson’s Winchester and Liverpool were backed hist night for a considerable sum ac 200 to 1 on the double—Derby and Cup On Tuesday evening Ferguson and Mitchell’s printing works were largely damaged by fire. The New .South Wales loan has been subscribed for to the extent of Li 1,000,000, at about L9l !3s. London, October 7.
A division of the Servian array has been instructed to proceed to the'f ontier, and is now marching in that direction.
Further d tails are to hand with regard to the recent encounter between tha Ahyssinnean forces under lias Abdurah and the Haddenoa arabs, show that the Abyssiniaus gained a complete victory, carrying by assault a strongly entrenched position, and killing fully 3000 Arabs, amongst whom was Osman Digraa, whose body was identified after the engageme it. The Abyssiniuns lost a large number of men. ,
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1232, 9 October 1885, Page 2
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