The Dunstan Time CLDYE, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1886. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1272, 16 July 1886, Page 2

The Dunstan Time

CLDYE, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1886. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Beneath the rule of men entirely Jn« t The pen ie mightier than the ewoid.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

(From our Correspondents).

Dunedis, July 15, 7 25 p.m. At Land Board yesterday John Kerr applied to be allowed to exchange his agricultural lease for sections at Bengor to a deferred-payment license, and was approved. A party of natives searching at Wairoa found on the hill above the ruius of a whare the bodies of ten Maoris.

Andrew Sta'gion, a farmer, dropped dea l in the Globe Hotel at Pakura, near A ucki land.

There is still no news of the missing man, A. L. Levy, of Wellington, the police authorities in Sydney have been communicated with to ascertain if he was cn the Hauroto, but no reply has been received. The mild weather has allowed of operations at Mt Ciiffell being resumed, where Mr J, Robertson discovered a patch of rich ground under peculiar circumstances under some overlying locks, a rush on a mild scale has set in, but it is not thought to bo of any extent. The last crushing of Just-in Time Company, Kesfton, yielded 12220z amalgam from 345 tons.

A man named Charles Nizon was run over by a truck Mullocky Gully to-day and has died since.

It is said that 47 passengers have booked at Auckland for Kimberly, and 30 from Wellington. The ‘ Argus’ correspondent at Derby writes that the population there is now fully lOilO, and atroagly urges thoso intemling to go to Kimberly to delay thdr departure uot.il September. At the Education Board to-day the resignation of N. Stewart, head teacher at Blacks, was accepted.

London, July 13. At Wimbledon to day in the shooting for the first stage of the Queen’s prize, the highest English score for seven shots at 200 was 34 Finn, of New South Wales, scored 31 points. The Union Bank of Australia have dec'ared a dividend for the past half year at the rate of 14 per cent, per annum, and carry forward and place to reserve 1,16.000. Serious riots occurred at Belfast, the fighting was between the Police and tha Orangemen, One hundred persons were wounded, and great damage dona to pros perty.

The Spanish Senate has agreed to the convention with England, provided that tha latter shall rec i e tha moat favored nation treatment in all matters relating to trade and navigation, and that the British <*overument shall fix the alcoholic scale for wine duties at tnirty degrees. The Marquis of Haitingtnn and Sir Michael Hicks Beach have made speeches, which indicate that the Irish National League will be suppressed.