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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 150, 25 June 1881, Page 2

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DunedW, Saturday. A meeting was held yesterday to protest against (he abolition of the bottle licenses, aud delegates were appointed to proceed to Wellington by the first steamer; £100 has been forwarded from .Dunedin by the Trepsurcr of the Irish National land Lengue. The following are the final results of the Tapanui coursing: — 7 Waterloo Purse — fourth round : Queen of the Sees beat Legerdemain; Harmony ran a bye. Fn a' course : Howard's Harmony beat Sherrin j'b Queen of the Seae, and won the stake. Waterloo Plate— tbird round : Lancashire Lass beat Duchess of Connaught ; in the final course Smith's Lancashire Ltss and B. Thomson's Bonnie Scotland divide! the Stake. Watirloo Cup — fioal course : A. M. McLaren's Briton Still beat A. Thompson's Don Carlos, and won the stake. The result of the Cup was a great boil over, as Don Carlos was heavily backed* C'nRiSTcnuKCH, Saturday. A petition is being got up here against the Fire Brigade Bill, now before Parliament. At a meeting of the Kaiapoi Farmers' Club on Thursday, it was resolved to seek the co-operation of the other Clubs with a view of obtaining a permissive act to enable them to cope more nuccefisfully frith the small birds' nuisance. Timauu, Saturday. A mau named John Tait was arrested yesterday for setting fire to the slaughter house premises of one Johnstone, near Tiumu. The arrest was the result of an inquiry held yesterday. Ashhurton, Saturday. A fire broke out last night at 9 o'clock at the shop of Iluxion, a tailor, next door to Quill's Hotel. In half an hour the shop and premises were consumed. The house belonged to Quill and wa3 valued at £300, it wtis insured for about half that amount. The stock and furniture were insured for £450. Tub cause of the fire is unkuown. Mr Joseph tress, the well known newspaper proprietor, starts in business here at auctioneer on the Ist July. Yesterday Pearce'a chicory manufactory commenced workv Nett Plymouth, Saturday. The flagstaff at the Waitara was blown down during a Btorm yesterday morning, and it will take some days before one can be erected* The steamer Rowena still lies on the South Spit at Waitara. The owner will proceed to Auckland to get appliances for launching her. AtJCitiiA.SO, Situaday. G. T. Chapman^ publisher, an old colonist, who started the first mechanics institute in Dunedin, died to-day. In the case of Johnson ». Smith, damages for a kick sustained by Johnson's boy through defendant's race horse exercising in Albert Park, under permit from the City Council, Judge M;Donald held that the. Council had no power to give such permit, therefore Smith was acting illegally. TiaiAßtr, Friday. At the Police Court this morning, John Tait, who was yeslenlay committed for trial on the verdict of the coroner's jury on a charge of arson ih connection with the burning of a slaughterhouse at the Washdyke, near Titnaru, was brought up for Magisterial inquiry and remanded, at the request of the police, until Friday, when additional evidence is likely to ba forthcoming.