The Dunstan Times. Beneath the rule of men entirely Jus The pen is mightierthan the sword. CLDYE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, 1886. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1281, 17 September 1886, Page 2

The Dunstan Times. Beneath the rule of men entirely Jus The pen is mightierthan the sword. CLDYE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, 1886. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (From our Correspondents). Dunedin, September 16. 7 25 p. m. At Land Hoard yesterday, Jas. Neville, Ida Valley, asked that his lease of section at Pool bum should be made a Perpetual one, and the Government were recommended accord ingly. Leave of absence was granted to J. Marsh from his deferred payment section, K'awarau, on account of ill hoal.h. It was resolved to recommend the Government to revoke the poclarua lion offsetting apart section at Lander as deferred payment land, with the view of having it sold by auction, as the land is of special value, at at upset of 30s per acre. The Hiuemoa arrived to-day, she takes about 20 from he e for Big Bay. At Blenheim yesterday, a two year old child died from eating matches. The Wellington police have received information that jewellery of the value of about LI 00 was stolen last week from a gentlemen (said to be the son of the Duke of Leinster) while staying at an hotel in Christchurch, On Tuesda - , at Mataura, two young men named Sampson Cregg and William Johnston were committed for trial on a charge of shooting and steal iug bullocks, the property of Mr Thornhill, of Benlow station. Canterbury beat New South Wales at Christchurch yesterday by 17 points to nil. At Education Board to-day the Finance Committee’s report was adopted. It recommended that the small addition to the residence applied for by Alexandra Committee be granted. That Lls be granted to Bald Hill Elat School Committee for completing buildings The appointment of Gerald Morris as head teacher at Blacks was approved of. The Premier arrived by to-night’s express from the north.

Five hundred returned diggers arrived at Port T)arwin yesterday from Kimberley goldfields. They report that many diggers are still on on the field who are in a state of distress

Mr D. FT. McKenzie, of Auckland, yesterday received a cablegram from his agent at Cambridge Gulf asking tor instruction re the disposal of the Rapido’s cargo, the goods being wholly unsaleable, and Kimberley a “ total failure.” London, Septem’ er 13

At the Colonial Wool Auctions today 14,000 bales were offeied. Prices wt re firmly maintained, faulty wools ot good quality are 4d higher than at the clos i of last sales.

A sculiing mutch has taken place between Lee and Matterson, which was won by the former. Prince Alexandra, of Bulgaria, in a farewell address to the officers of the army, denounced in touching lan guage the action of the Czar, he having insisted on his resignation, “he resigns, he says, because otherwise a Russian occupation of Bulgaria will take place.

Piince Bismarck has sent a communication to Prince Alexander, in which the German Chancellor advises His Highness to abdicate the throne of Bulgaria, The “ Journal Des Debates" urges

the French Government to arrange more friendly relations respecting the New Hebrides. Mr E. Stanhope has hopes of an early evacuation ot those Islands. ' In the House of Commons Sir James Ferguson, Under-Secretary for foreign Affairs, declared that Great Britain was not specially interested in the affairs of Bulgaria, but that the future government of that country must be based oh the treaty of Beilin.