The Dunstan Times. CLDYE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1886. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1285, 15 October 1886, Page 2

The Dunstan Times. CLDYE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1886. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Beneath the rule of men entirely jus ■ The pen is mightlcrthar the sword.

[BY ELECTING TELEGRAPH.] (Erom air Correspondents), Dusfdtk-. October 14, 7 23 p.m. At Land Ho 'id yesterday the road linns on which Vincent County Council proposed spending certain monies accruing from deferred payment sales was approve of. J. Siramonds and Chun Ah Dunn’s

deferred payment license. Leaning Bock, | was cancelled. Kichard Rushton declined I to take up section at Arrowtown. | There were four nominations yesterday i for Dunedin Central seat in the House of ' Representatives Hutchison, Chapman, Bracken, and Darling. The ‘ Times thia morning goes for Bracken as being the most eligible candidate. The Ship Sierra Colona pul into port yes. terday to land the steward, who was dangerously ill. The ship was on a voyage from Calcutta to Frisco. The captain had died since leaving Calcutta. The poisoning case gt Timaru stills goes on. At yesterday’s sitting Dr Drew stated it was perfectly evident to the three consuiting doctors that they knew what was the matter with Mrs Hall. His Honor asked what were they there for if not to consult. witness gave no satisfactory answer to this query, hut the fact of the poisoning was patent to him all the time, and both he and Dr Mclntyre were in no doubt from Dr Lovegroves manner that he knew of it too. It seems to have been too delicate a case altogether for the doctors to discuss. They treated it in the strictest silence. Stone Clink won the Cesarewitch Stakes, the Cab and Eurasian being .second and third. The inquest opened at Oanmn yesterday on supposed chili murder case, I; was adjourned for a fortnight. No arrest has yet be.en made in connection with it, hut police here are making inquiries into the state* ments of the woman Georgeson, the supposed mother of the child found mutilated. Penn and Lizzie Graham were living in a tent on shore for 5 or 6 weeks after tbo wreck of the Soverei-n of the Seas. London, October 12. An American fi-hing schooner which failed to report at the Customs at Novo Scotia has been seized and her owners fined. As the master persisted in hoisting the American fl ig, the captain of the Canadian cruiser Terror, or'erod a party on board to lower the flag, which was accordingly done, and an armed guard placed in charge of the schooner. The statement published by the ‘ Daily News'that the Government are preparing a scheme for the government of Ireland on the basis of providing a National Council for each of the four provinces is generally discredited. Neal Matterson, the Australian sculler, sails for Australia in the Lusitania tomorrow. The Pall Mall ‘ Gazsttee’ to-day states that Lord Charles Beresford, Naval Lord of the Admiralty, has addressed a memo randum to the Admiralty severely condemning the shortness of the peisonnel in tiro warships, in commission, and their supplies of coal, and the tardiness displayed in mobilising. His Lordship asserted that no p'an exists for a campaign, and insists that it is necessary to extend the Intelligence department of the Navy, and organise fleets in preparation fur war. Germany is rapidly arming her troops with repeating ritles, ] The newspapers which support General | Boulanger, the present Minister of War ! for France, predict an early conflict with I Germany The Russian Press in recent articles geni-rally agree that there is no hope of a peaceful solution of the Bulgari in difficulty. Th • Moscow Viedomooti published an article to-day, in which it urges the occupation of Bulgaria by Rusda. It declares Russia still remains ftee to act, and has no need to listen to tho wishes of other Powers. Adelaide, This Day. The Commissioner of Lamia has received n teller it pi uug lliat oliuvlal goldfield has been discovered at Nankaringa, which is expected to prove a great success. A nugget weighing an ounce was found on tho field.