The Dunstan Times. CLDYE. FRIDAY, DEC. 10, 1886. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1293, 10 December 1886, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLDYE. FRIDAY, DEC. 10, 1886. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

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[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (From cur Correspondents). Dunedin, December!), 7-55 p.m. At Land Board yesterday the Warden at Clyde returned an application by Mr C .Nicholson to purchase two or three acres of land at Ettrick, statin" that gold had been found in payable quantities outside the land in question, and he thought the applica" tion should be relnsed. It was re* solved that one acre of- land be granted,

Government offer a i^Lrd of L 250 for information leading to conviction of the person who set fire to the goods shed on Sunday. The cricket match Auckland v. Australians ended in a draw yester* day. Cabinet, meetings have been held daily in Wellington this week Min* isters have under consideration a scheme of retrenchment, but nothing definite is yet settled. Messrs Ballance and Stout visit the South at the end of theweeb, and Sir Julius Yogel goes to Waiwera hot springs, The train for the South was de* tained this side of Gore this-morning through floods. ■ An inquest was opened to-day on the cause of the goods shed fire, but was not concluded. For the Auckland Cup Nelson is at 3 to 1, Waitiri 5 to 1, Fusillade 7 to 1, Disowned and Lochiel 8 to 1, and Derringer 10 to 1. A correspondent at Cromwell wired to the ‘ Star ’ this afternoon that at 10 o’clock this morning when passing the Halfway House, he saw the naked body of a man floating in the Molyneux. The body is believed to bo that of the missing Andrew Dalziel. A Sydney telegram to-day states that the steamers Helen Nicol and Kweelawarra came into collision last night off Trial Bay. The Kweela* warra sank in seven minutes. The captain and 35 of the crew and passengers went down in her. Three of the Helen Niool’s crew are missing. The Kweelawarra was a vessel of 1000 tons, and was owned by Howard, Smith,, and Co. The Kweelawarra was bound from this port to Brisbane, and the, Helen Nicol was coming from Grafton to Sydney. The Kweelawarra had 25 passengers. The Helen Nicol , was severely damaged by the collision, and put into Trial Bay. London, December 7. Fifeeen hundred leading Unionists attended the conference upon Irish affairs. Lords Derby and Selborne, Mr Goshen and Mr Trevelyan spoke in support of Lord Hartington. Mr Chamberlain wired that there could be no reunion of the Liberal party until the policy pursued by Mr Gladstone was abandoned - • Mr Blight wrote that their was no hope of a moderate policy from Mr Gladstone. Lord Hartington denied that there was any sympathy between the English democracy and the Anarchist policy of the Land League. The Press declares that the conference will greatly encourage the Governmerit in the pooifcivju to lias taken up Two hundred and sixty Recidivistes f ha ™ embarked for New Caledonia and more are ready. 9 . The 'Bulgarian Government reply, mg to a circular issued bv the Sultan ! e *P^ 8 B’ng approval of Prince Nicholas of Mmgrelia being appointed to the i ™ ro £ e ™ Bulgaria, have declared that the Bulgarian people will never accept Pnnce Nicholas as their ruler. News has been received that th« Somali tribes in Africa have mnrdered Dr Juchlke, of the Eastern African Sciefcy. at Caeosrayoo.