DThe Dunstan Times. Beneatn the rule of men entirely Jus, The pen is mightierthen the sword. CLDYE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 10, 1888. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1280, 10 September 1886, Page 2

DThe Dunstan Times. Beneatn the rule of men entirely Jus, The pen is mightierthen the sword. CLDYE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 10, 1888. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (From our Correspondents). Dus edik, September 9, 723 p.m. At the Land Board yesterday a feeling reference was made to the death of the late Mr Bradshaw. No business of local interest was transacted. The half-yearly meeting of the Oddfellows Lodge, Otago District, was held yesterday, when the usual routine business was transacted. The steamer Hinemoa leaves here on Thursday next for Big Bay, and Invercargill on the fo'.lowi.ig Saturday. The idea of raising a fund for the Bradshaw memorial is being largely taken up in Dunedin and other cities, and promises to be a great succe.-s. At the Intercolonial football match, Canterbury v. New South Wales, the former won by three points to nil. A report was current in town yes te r day that Joe Scott, pedestrian, had died at Launceston from results of late walking match, but there was not the slightest foundation for it. The cable routes from Penang to Madras and Eangoon are still interrupted. The only routes open westward are Singapore via Hong Kong and Cochin China at reduced rales. Telegrams are being despatched ny steamer over the interrupted section between Pe nang and Eangoon as opportunity offers. The passage occupies four days. Captain Cotton won his walking match against time by 57 minutes. Very heavy floods are reported today from Blenheim and Nelson, and traffic on the ra iways suspended. The flood at Blenheim is reported heavier than the floods ot 1868. The Whampoa, from Foochow arrived at the Heads yesterday. The Municipal elections today created a little excitement, and resulted in return of Fish, Barron, Sinclair, and Smith. The Sydney footballers arrived tonight.

London, Septra' er 7. The third series of Co'oqial wool Sales opened to-day before a large attendance of buyers The catalogue comprised 13,000 bales, for which there was brisk competition. Prices ranged from J to 2d higher than at the do e of last sales, greasy show, ing an advance of Id to IJd; scoured, 2d ; coarse greasy crossbreds, £d to Id; fine greasy crossbreds, Id to lid. Prince Alexander has besought the officers of his army to refrain from opposing his departure from Bulgaria His Highness will leave on the 13th inst.

A regency for Bulgaria lias been established under M Stambonloff.

Prince Alexander left town yesterday, his destination being yet unknown.

An anonymous circular has been issued in Punjauh urging the native tribes to rise in revolt and expel the English from J ndia. The Maharajah Dhuleep Sing Ehajah, of Punjaub, is suspected of being the author of the circular in question. Melbourne, September 9. Kews has been received from the Rev Mr McDonald, Presbyterian Missionary at Havannah Harbor, New Hob-ides, that the French are forcibly taking possession of laud in those islands.

News has ah o been received from port Darwin that ninety diggers ro turned to that place from Kimberley Several others are on their way back. They report that horses are selling at Cambridge Gulf at L2 per head.