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SUPPLEMENTARY TELEGRAMS (From our own correspondent). Dunedin,'Friday! B"p.m. The meeting held to-day decided to form a railway to the Ocean. Beach, Forbury, and Peninsula. • . OHRISTCHURCH. The New Zealand Insurance Company have taken up the balance (£10,600) of the Christchurch six per cent, drainage debentures. WELLINGTON. - It has been stated that Curtis had joined the. Ministry. The statement is not true. Dr. Pollen will act as the head of t he Go vernment during Vogel's absence. . The opinion of his Houor Judge Grey upon the case,submitted to him by JMr. Warden Stratford—Donnelly v. Hit or Miss Company —will be published next week. • ' We are sorry to learn that the station residence at the'Paieroa Station, occupied by Cap"tiin Baldwin hnd'fnuulyy has been destroyed by fire The particulars to .hand "as to the cause are ',OO vague for publication
The members of-tjae jury who were summoned to attend the Coroner at iiden Creek, having to travel nearly ten miles asbestthev could, very" naturally objected, and we believe, a protest with the Justice acting in the absence of the District Coroner. The bridge across the Maiiiiherikia (a Blacks CO!respondent to the Clyde papersayo)
i.- being proceeded -with, but no gy&ititoasWij ■ s b.'ing made, on account of the scarcity df masons to build the abutments ; thefoundalions arc being excavated, and general progress made, and the day-is not far distant when the greatest boon that has yet been con-"" ferred on Black* -will be accomplished.
Mb. Hazlett informs the ' Dunstan Time* that £2OO was the price he obtained for tbff race horse " Atlas" aad that he was safely de* livered to the purchaser, Mr. White at Kingr ston. He is informed that had the old hor--V been offered for sale in Dunediri he wouiihave realisod fully £3OO. He also says there Isno foundation for the rumor that the ; mare' " Bninsfctc" is to be offered for sale by ««■-■'' tion.
The 'Tuapeia Times' in a late issue statesthat in addition in the superabundance of work entailed on our Resident Magistrate, we leain that he is to undertake the dutiesof Mr. Maitland at Tokomairiro and' Balclutha during the next six months. We fear this arrangement will" not suit the requirements of Mr. Carew's own district, which has hitherto kept him pretty cloiely at work.— the same paper is informed that Mr. Creighton, editor of the ' Ghiardian," is leaving Dunedin for the' North, and that Mr. "Vincent Pyke will in future conduct both the '.Guar-i dian' and the ' Mercury. 1
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 289, 12 September 1874, Page 3
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