DUNEDIN.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1001, 25 April 1871, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Tuesday, April 25. Stewart, a Customs locker, whose foot was injured a month, since by an accident in the Universal Bond, died yesterday from the effects of the acoi dent.

Barber, the Kyeburnmail contractor, was thrown out of his cart on Saturday, and killed instantaneously.

Chaplin, coach proprietor, has filed a deed of arrangement with his creditors. The alleged cause is undue pressuie on the part of the Bank of New Zealand.

A match between the Dunedin and London artillery came oif on Saturday. Our ten men averaged 53. A portion of the wreck of a large ship has come ashore on the beach of Green Island. It has been visited by the police, but they have been unable to find any signs by which to identify the vessel.

No less than three hundred black swans were seen a few days ago, floating on a lagoon at the mouth of the Biver Hal swell, Canterbury.

The consumption of breadstuff's in the Auckland market is estimated by a local paper at 147 tons per week. The returns of imports, and of local production for the year 1870 are taken as a basis of calculation.

The Waikuku Steam Wool Works, in Canterbury, now employs fifteen hands, but it is the intention of the proprietor of the works to send home a quantity of wool, which will be classed to suit the various manufacturers Tf this experiment should prove sufficiently remunerative he will be able to employ from fifty to sixty hands all the year round. Fellmongering is also carried on at the works. Three sweaiing rooms have recently been erected, which are capable of holding upwards of 1,000 tfkins at once.