DUNEDIN.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 69, 16 June 1877, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

* , ■ Tuesday. A' boaßding-house keeper at Port Chalmers has been fined £20 for sly grog sejling, and £2 for contempt of Court; during the hearingl Mr Reynolds has been taken to task by the. Chamber of Commerce for stating when a Minister, at" a meeting in December, 1875, that the main lines of railway, Worth and South, would be complete in eighteen months. He replied — "I remember perfectly .well . making the statement in,my, capacity as a Cabinet Minister, atad I was fully j under the impression that by eighteen i months, the whole of tliese lines would be j completed. Before I came down on that occasion- 1 consulted the Minister for Public Works, and it was from data I got from him that I made that state-, ment. Of course, it was. not my own department, and I could" not speak positively ; but yet I think I have still a memo, shewing that I was justified in making this statement as a Cabinet Minister. Of course it would be-im-possible now to have the railways com- j • pleted within eighteen months of th'etime I spoke, but 'still Ido not see any great difficulty to prevent the Government • from prosecuting at once the completion of the line between Balclutha and Clinton. I do not see that there is the slightest difficulty. It may be said there , was no* vote last year to complete this j line, but, at the .same time I think the Government have taken far greater responsibilities upon themselves than they Would incur t if they took this line into consideration and entered into a contract at once.. I_feel certain that "the Assembly would never for a moment ob- , ject to their taking such aU action, f seeing the money has been already voted and that it was fully understood that' I this Was one of the works that would be completed before any fresh works were" taken np. * It is the intention of Mr A. J. Burns to move at the first meeting of the Taieri County Council that a circular be forwarded to all the County Councils of Otago requesting them to UTge upon

theii" representatives in parliament to inquire into certain public reserves, and the objects for which such reserves were originally set aside, and that a honorary commission be appointed. Ist. To report upon the manner in which the Corporation has fulfilled its trust. ~2nd. "Whether the said reserves or the prodeed's therefrom have been devoted to such purposes as benevolent institutions, museums, &c, and if not enquire for the purposes for which they were originallyset aside. 3rd. That, the Town Belt should be vested in the trusteeship of the surrounding Municipalities as well as in the City of Dunedin Corporation. Five deer were picked up about three miles OTifcside Taiaroa Heads on Saturday by- a; fishernian.-,) They were in good condition, ,an4 were subfosed to have escaped from • Mr; Larhach*s grounds, and been, chased into the sea by dogs. - ;.,-.' v ; \ The overcrowded; state of the Industrial .School hassled to a tender being accepted for -tIjJE!- erection of a dormitory two storeys high- 46 feet in,! length. The addition, when ■ completedj will be capable of accommodating 30 children. At present 190 children are in the instiimtion, sixanfants' requiring wet nursesj and thii'fceen jiist barely able to^ crawl: : The Auckland^correspondent of ■the! " Times ''says":-v--" Sir Gebrge Grey has :sufEered-frpmanother attack^ and is far from as well as he was a few weeks ago; Ilis complaint is suppressed- goutj which to orta of his 'active: habits ; jnust be extremely uritating, : ; Gteat anxiety is always manifested to get news cif him here ; and I cannot teil you how keen the interest is .in his health. There are. some ; who ,speAk;;of Sir Gebrge as 'played biit^ but depend -upon it ne never stood higher than now. . . .In the Police: Court this morning a ;man named jlllan Mcßae, engipeer, was committed fpr|- trial for attempting to poison himself •with'raudii.num. . ' - ; The Couiicil pi the. ■ University ,met this . afternoon, f; The principal business was 7 the ■consideration; of Mr ,Macandrew's resolutibm to invite dbinpetitiveV designs ' for ?new ' buildings,: to .cost 'JBITJOOO. = He- proposed to offer -scs--< miums oi. £250, £150, and '£100. The; matterjfras adjourned for a week'tp enable menibers^ti);, study tbjg^museum plan, the Eeyi Mr Standford having .moved an aniendment t to build on.-a -portion of the musettiil'site, witha'view to assimilating the'^^institutions 'as much as possible*' - : - P^~^-—\ ■ .' •-•'■"' ■■}"''■ ■■' . ■'■